World on alert after bin Laden killed

 The compound, within which Osama bin Laden was killed, is seen in flames after it was attacked in Abbottabad, in this still image from video footage from a mobile phone, May 2, 2011

 Obama is likely to face mounting pressure to speed up the planned withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.

 The US has issued security warnings to Americans worldwide.

World leaders warned of revenge attacks after Osama bin Laden was killed in a US assault in Pakistan yesterday that brought to a dramatic end the long manhunt for the al Qaeda leader who had become the most powerful symbol of Islamist militancy.

President Barack Obama declared the world was a safer and “better place” with bin Laden dead. But the euphoria that drew flag-waving crowds to “Ground Zero” of the September 11, 2001, attack in New York was tempered by calls for vigilance against retaliation by his followers.

China hails death of bin Laden, defends partner Pakistan

A vendor sells masks of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in Nanjing, Jiangsu province May 3, 2011. China hailed on Tuesday the death of bin Laden in a US raid while defending its regional partner Pakistan against accusations it had done too little against terror threats

China hailed today the death of Osama bin Laden in a US raid while defending its regional partner Pakistan against accusations it had done too little against terror threats.

Beijing and Washington have gone through bouts of friction over Taiwan and Tibet, regional security and most recently China’s clampdown on dissent and human rights activists.

China showed no appetite, however, for turning the US raid that killed bin Laden on Pakistani soil into a point of dispute.

William and Kate to honeymoon in Seychelles

Prince William and his wife Kate will honeymoon at a luxury villa on an island in the Seychelles, according to yesterday’s Daily Mail newspaper.

The newly-weds (picture) delayed their honeymoon, but will jet out later this month to spend ten days at a US$6,700 (RM19,925) a night retreat in the Indian Ocean archipelago, the British paper reported.

The 28-year-old prince’s protection officers reportedly visited the top-secret location to assess its suitability and were satisfied that the isolated resort would offer the required privacy.

UK arrests 5 in terror alert near nuclear site

Members of the All India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF) hold placards in New Delhi May 3, 2011, during a pro-US rally as they celebrate the killing of Osama bin Laden. British police have arrested five men near a nuclear reprocessing plant in England under counter-terrorism law


British police said today they had arrested five men close to the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in northwest England under counter-terrorism laws.

The arrests were made after Prime Minister David Cameron urged Britain to remain vigilant against potential reprisals following the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by US forces.

Police said the men were arrested yesterday after officers conducted a stop check on a vehicle near the site in Cumbria.

The men are all aged in their 20s and from London, police said.

Police held the men under section 41 of the Terrorism Act, which allows offices to arrest people suspected of terrorist offences and hold them for 48 hours without charge.

Second Air France black box recovered

French investigators said on Tuesday that they had recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic almost two years ago en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro.

Q+A: What really happened in Abbottabad? where Osama bin laden was Killed in Action

US Army's 10th Combat Aviation Brigade soldiers work on a helicopter rotor pitch control in the maintenance hut at Jalalabad Air Field in Nangarhar province May 3, 2011.

The White House, Pentagon and CIA are congratulating themselves over what appears to have been a stunningly successful mission to hunt down and kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

But since Navy SEALs raided bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Monday, conflicting accounts have emerged about what really went on before, during and after the commando raid.

Here are some questions and answers about key issues where conflicting stories have surfaced:

Should bin Laden have been captured and tried?

US President BarackObama announcing th killing of Osama on live TV May 1, 201


While many world leaders applauded the US operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, there were concerns in parts of Europe that the United States was wrong to act as policeman, judge and executioner.

US Attorney General Eric Holder defended the action as lawful yesterday, but some in Europe said bin Laden should have been captured and put on trial.

“It was quite clearly a violation of international law,” former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told German TV. “The operation could also have incalculable consequences in the Arab world in light of all the unrest.”

Ehrhart Koerting, Interior Minister in the city-state of Berlin, said: “As a lawyer, I would have preferred to have seen him put on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC).”

How a 40-minute raid ended ten years ended Osama Bin Laden the most wanted man in the world.

* Bin Laden's body flown away by helicopter after the 40-minute raid
* Luxury compound was only 60 miles from Pakistan capital Islamabad
* Terrorist refused to surrender and was eventually shot in the eye
* CIA analysts spent months looking at satellite trying to work out what was inside

With heavy cloud rolling in over the town of Abbottabad, conditions were perfect for the raid to take out Osama Bin Laden after ten years on the run. The previous night, the operation had been cancelled because the weather was clear and the U.S. aircraft would have been spotted from a distance.

But at 1am yesterday – 9pm on Sunday UK time – the sleeping citizens were awoken by the clatter of four military helicopters thought to be two Black Hawks and two Chinooks.

They contained more than 100 elite commandos who had been training intensively for days at their airbase, Bagram in Afghanistan, using a detailed mock-up of Bin Laden’s hideaway constructed by the CIA. After dummy runs on April 7 and April 13, they flew to the Tarbela Ghazi airbase in north-west Pakistan, which the CIA has permission to use.

 Deserted: Nestled among trees and in the shadow of Pakistan's mountains, Bin Laden's hideaway stands empty after a helicopter raid by U.S. troops that killed the terror chief. He lived there with his youngest wife and his trusted aides

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Details of the Osama bin Laden raid

A visual of the Osama compound in Islamad, Pakistan May 2, 2011.

White House press secretary Jay Carney provided the following official narrative on Tuesday of the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan:

* A small team of US commandos assaulted a compound in the town of Abbottabad near the capital Islamabad on Monday with orders to capture or kill bin Laden.


US military personnel flew in on two helicopters, one of which suffered mechanical problems and was later destroyed. The team methodically cleared the compound, moving from room to room in an operation lasting nearly 40 minutes. They were engaged in a firefight throughout the operation. Bin Laden was killed when he “resisted”.

US may release photos of bin Laden burial at sea

A supporter of the banned Islamic organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa clears tears while taking part in a symbolic funeral prayer for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Karachi on May 3, 2011. The founder one of Pakistan’s most violent Islamist militant groups has told Muslims to be heartened by the death of Osama bin Laden, as his ‘martyrdom’ would not be in vain, a spokesman for the group said on Tuesday


The United States may release later today photos of Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea but no final decision has been made, a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The Obama administration has been weighing whether to make public photos of bin Laden’s corpse as proof that he had been killed during a raid by US forces on his mansion hide-out in Pakistan.

The al Qaeda leader’s body was flown out of the country, brought to a US aircraft carrier, given Islamic funeral rites and slipped into the north Arabian Sea in a weighted body bag yesterday.

US says bin Laden photo ‘gruesome’, weighs release

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney listens to questions during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, May 3, 2011

The Obama administration wrestled yesterday with releasing what it called a gruesome image of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, even as militants started questioning whether US forces really killed him.

Different parts of the Obama administration offered differing views, with CIA Director Leon Panetta saying there was never any doubt that ultimately a photograph of the al Qaeda leader would be released to the public.

Osama Bin Laden evade capture for 6 years the charade that let him evade capture for six years

# ISI official: 'We were looking in the wrong areas. It's an intelligence failure'
# Local children received $2-3 if their ball entered the compound
# Visiting doctor asked to leave after commenting on SUVs
# CIA chief feared telling Pakistanis would 'alert targets'
# Full story of how courier unwittingly led commandos to Bin Laden's lair
# David Cameron: 'We should be tough in asking the big questions'
# Prime Minister hints at swifter troop exit from Afghanistan

Blackened: A shelter in the compound appears to have take some of the fire as U.S. forces went into to grab Bin Laden

Sightseeing: Local residents gather outside and atop the walls Bin Laden's home while the security services turn a blind eye

Pakistan anger: Demonstrators in Karachi chant slogans condemning the killing of Osama bin Laden as they gather to offer funeral prayers

Doubts: CIA Director Leon Panetta said concerns over the reliability of Pakistani intelligence led his agency not to inform them in advance of the raid

Surrounded: The three-storey lair, guarded left by security officials, is encircled by walls 12ft high topped with three lines of barbed wire. Local workers were seen carrying out running repairs after the raid

Osama bunny-laden: These are the two rabbits which Zarar Ahmed claimed were given to him by the Al Qaeda chief

It's a good day: President Barack Obama, centre, holds a Cabinet meeting with, from left, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and Trade Representative Ronald Kirk, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, in Washington, DC today

The wall encircles the whole compound which was raided in 2003 by security services searching for an Al Qaeda Faraj Al-Libi

Seen better days: Pakistani soldiers in a jeep pass by the compound, close to a military academy and less than 70 miles from capital Islamabad

Close up: The compound in the town of Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama Bin Laden was killed in the early hours of Monday morning

Young guest: Zarar Ahmed, 12, points at Bin Laden's high-security compound which he lives near to and claims to have visited several times

In 2004, a captured Al Qaeda operative told U.S. intelligence that the courier Sheikh Abu Ahmed was close to operational commander Faraj Al-Libi, left, who had replaced Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, right. 

Details of the comfortable family life Osama Bin Laden enjoyed under the noses of the Pakistani security services emerged last night.

Neighbours’ children were invited into the terror mastermind’s hideout to play with pet rabbits, while his children attended a nearby school.

Even the name of the million-dollar house was a huge clue – it was called ‘Waziristan Mansion’, after the tribal area of mountainous Pakistan where Bin Laden fled in the wake of the 9/11 outrage.

Until he was finally hunted down and killed by U.S. special forces on Sunday, the world’s most wanted man lived in the garrison city of Abbottabad with his various wives for an incredible six years.

Raw video of carnage gruesome inside bin laden death house compound and Obama full speech.

Celebrations across America as U.S. special forces shoot dead terror chief in mansion hideaway in Pakistan

* Terror chief blasted in head after refusing offer to surrender
* Three adults including Bin Laden's 'son' reportedly killed in raid
* Compound was yards from Pakistan's 'Sandhurst' military academy
* Body buried at sea after Saudi Arabia 'declines to take corpse'
* DNA tests 99.9 per cent certain man killed WAS Bin Laden
* U.S. embassies on alert over Al Qaeda reprisal attacks
* Barack Obama declares 'Justice has been done'
* David Cameron says death is 'massive step forward'

Osama Bin Laden has been killed by the U.S. military after a decade-long hunt to avenge the 9/11 attacks, President Barack Obama has revealed.

The 54-year-old leader of Al Qaeda was dramatically killed last night in a firefight with American special forces in a $1million mansion hideout around 60 miles from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.

Experts used facial recognition techniques to identify the slain terrorist and performed DNA tests,
which are said to be 99.9 per cent certain man killed WAS Bin Laden.

U.S. officials have told broadcaster CNN that Bin Laden's body has already been buried at sea in order to prevent the grave from becoming a shrine for extremists.

 Carnage: Blood can be seen on the floor from where Osama was reportedly surrounded by three men, including his son, and a woman who formed a human shield against U.S. troops.Gun fight: A pool of blood on the floor suggests that one Al Qaeda member was shot close to their bed, while right, a wardrobe pulled open by U.S troops to ensure that none of Bin Laden's clan were hiding in the room.Pit of evil: A king size bed where Bin Laden may have once slept at the secretive compound in Abbottabad. Blood from a gun battle can be seen at the foot of the mattress

Hideout: The bin Laden compound was found only a few hundred yards from the military academy known as Pakistan's Sandhurst in the garrison town of Abbottabad, Pakistan