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Al-Qaeda confirm death of Osama bin Laden
Barack Obama last night shook the hand of the man who killed Osama bin Laden.
The US president met the US Navy Seals team which executed the al-Qaeda chief and praised their mission as “one of the greatest intelligence and military operations in our nation’s history”.
After a private visit to Fort Campbell in Kentucky, where he awarded the Seal Team Six crack troops the Presidential Unit Citation – the highest honour that can go to a military unit – Mr Obama said: “They practised tirelessly. When I gave the order, they were ready. We have cut off their head and we will ultimately defeat them. This was a chance for me to say on behalf of Americans and people around the world ‘job well done’.”
His visit came on the day al-Qaeda chiefs formally confirmed bin Laden’s death – and vowed bloody revenge on the US and its allies. The fanatics pledged to never give up Jihad and, in a chilling warning, claimed bin Laden’s “blood is more precious to us and to every Muslim than to be wasted in vain”.
As hundreds of bin Laden followers clashed with right-wing extremists outside the US Embassy in London, a spokesman for al-Qaeda pronounced via the internet: “Bin Laden’s blood will remain, with permission from Allah the Almighty, a curse that chases the Americans and their agents, and goes after them inside and outside their countries.
“Their happiness will turn into sorrow, and their blood will be mixed with their tears. We call upon our Muslim people in Pakistan, on whose land Sheikh Osama was killed, to rise up and revolt to cleanse this shame attached to them by a clique of traitors and thieves... and in general to cleanse their country from the filth of the Americans who spread corruption in it.”
As al-Qaeda confirmed the death of their leader – crushing conspiracy theories that he was still alive – it emerged yesterday that bin Laden was running out of money in the weeks before he was killed by US special forces. The once-wealthy Saudi blew millions to fund al-Qaeda plots and training camps, while the CIA and other global counter-terror spook agencies had spent the past 10 years painstakingly freezing bank accounts linked to bin Laden.
Locals say the al-Qaeda mastermind’s “million dollar mansion” where he was killed in Pakistan was worth £150,000 – less than the price of the average home in Britain.
A senior Pakistani intelligence official told reporters: “Osama bin Laden was cash-strapped in his final days. He had no money.”
Experts estimate there still could be as much as £180million hidden around the globe by al-Qaeda’s financiers in mystery accounts and property holdings.
An intelligence report seen by the Mirror also contradicts claims that Pakistani intelligence did not know about bin Laden’s presence. It says: “Contrary to statements released by Pakistani intelligence agencies denying any knowledge of the occupants of the Abbottabad compound raided by American Special Forces units on May 1, there is evidence the occupants of the compound housing Osama bin Laden were well known to Pakistani intelligence from the time the purpose-built building was being constructed.” Sources also claimed al-Qaeda had been split into two – the largest faction run by bin Laden’s No2, Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahiri.
As revealed by the Mirror, al-Zawahiri is being hunted by a shadowy US special forces network called the Intelligence Support Agency.
Meanwhile, a “funeral service” for the dead al-Qaeda boss in London yesterday turned to violence. Right-wing English Defence League members chanted “USA, USA” as supporters knelt to pray for bin Laden at the opposite end of the highly secured US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, Central London.
Police officers then moved in to quell trouble as angry Islamic fanatics chanted in response: “American leaders are murderers.”
Abu Muaz, 28, from East London, raged: “It is only a matter of time before another atrocity – the West is the enemy.”
An ambulance was called amid reports one of the extremists had been attacked. The event was organized by hate-preacher Anjem Choudary – ex-UK leader of the outlawed al-Muhajiroun and member of the “poppy-burning” Muslims Against Crusades – who called on Mr Obama to return bin Laden’s body to relatives.
He has already warned of another 7/7-style attack in the wake of bin Laden’s death.
Britain has followed the US in placing its embassies and military bases around the world on heightened alert in recent days.
The head of the UK’s Armed Forces said yesterday that bin Laden’s death sent out a vital message. General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff, who was yesterday made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath by the Queen at Windsor Castle, said: “This is definitely a positive. It will remind like-minded people wherever they are that one day their deeds will catch up with them.”
National security adviser Sir Peter Ricketts, who was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George at the same ceremony, added: “This is not the end but a big step forwards. This has been an extraordinary week in the fight against terrorism.”
Al-Qaeda confirm death of Osama bin Laden
Barack Obama last night shook the hand of the man who killed Osama bin Laden.
The US president met the US Navy Seals team which executed the al-Qaeda chief and praised their mission as “one of the greatest intelligence and military operations in our nation’s history”.
After a private visit to Fort Campbell in Kentucky, where he awarded the Seal Team Six crack troops the Presidential Unit Citation – the highest honour that can go to a military unit – Mr Obama said: “They practised tirelessly. When I gave the order, they were ready. We have cut off their head and we will ultimately defeat them. This was a chance for me to say on behalf of Americans and people around the world ‘job well done’.”
His visit came on the day al-Qaeda chiefs formally confirmed bin Laden’s death – and vowed bloody revenge on the US and its allies. The fanatics pledged to never give up Jihad and, in a chilling warning, claimed bin Laden’s “blood is more precious to us and to every Muslim than to be wasted in vain”.
As hundreds of bin Laden followers clashed with right-wing extremists outside the US Embassy in London, a spokesman for al-Qaeda pronounced via the internet: “Bin Laden’s blood will remain, with permission from Allah the Almighty, a curse that chases the Americans and their agents, and goes after them inside and outside their countries.
“Their happiness will turn into sorrow, and their blood will be mixed with their tears. We call upon our Muslim people in Pakistan, on whose land Sheikh Osama was killed, to rise up and revolt to cleanse this shame attached to them by a clique of traitors and thieves... and in general to cleanse their country from the filth of the Americans who spread corruption in it.”
As al-Qaeda confirmed the death of their leader – crushing conspiracy theories that he was still alive – it emerged yesterday that bin Laden was running out of money in the weeks before he was killed by US special forces. The once-wealthy Saudi blew millions to fund al-Qaeda plots and training camps, while the CIA and other global counter-terror spook agencies had spent the past 10 years painstakingly freezing bank accounts linked to bin Laden.
Locals say the al-Qaeda mastermind’s “million dollar mansion” where he was killed in Pakistan was worth £150,000 – less than the price of the average home in Britain.
A senior Pakistani intelligence official told reporters: “Osama bin Laden was cash-strapped in his final days. He had no money.”
Experts estimate there still could be as much as £180million hidden around the globe by al-Qaeda’s financiers in mystery accounts and property holdings.
An intelligence report seen by the Mirror also contradicts claims that Pakistani intelligence did not know about bin Laden’s presence. It says: “Contrary to statements released by Pakistani intelligence agencies denying any knowledge of the occupants of the Abbottabad compound raided by American Special Forces units on May 1, there is evidence the occupants of the compound housing Osama bin Laden were well known to Pakistani intelligence from the time the purpose-built building was being constructed.” Sources also claimed al-Qaeda had been split into two – the largest faction run by bin Laden’s No2, Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahiri.
As revealed by the Mirror, al-Zawahiri is being hunted by a shadowy US special forces network called the Intelligence Support Agency.
Meanwhile, a “funeral service” for the dead al-Qaeda boss in London yesterday turned to violence. Right-wing English Defence League members chanted “USA, USA” as supporters knelt to pray for bin Laden at the opposite end of the highly secured US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, Central London.
Police officers then moved in to quell trouble as angry Islamic fanatics chanted in response: “American leaders are murderers.”
Abu Muaz, 28, from East London, raged: “It is only a matter of time before another atrocity – the West is the enemy.”
An ambulance was called amid reports one of the extremists had been attacked. The event was organized by hate-preacher Anjem Choudary – ex-UK leader of the outlawed al-Muhajiroun and member of the “poppy-burning” Muslims Against Crusades – who called on Mr Obama to return bin Laden’s body to relatives.
He has already warned of another 7/7-style attack in the wake of bin Laden’s death.
Britain has followed the US in placing its embassies and military bases around the world on heightened alert in recent days.
The head of the UK’s Armed Forces said yesterday that bin Laden’s death sent out a vital message. General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff, who was yesterday made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath by the Queen at Windsor Castle, said: “This is definitely a positive. It will remind like-minded people wherever they are that one day their deeds will catch up with them.”
National security adviser Sir Peter Ricketts, who was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George at the same ceremony, added: “This is not the end but a big step forwards. This has been an extraordinary week in the fight against terrorism.”
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