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. >> the death of bin ladin marks the most significant achievement of our nation to date to defeat al qaeda. >> that's what's going on in our world, starting now. >>> joining me to discuss the rapidly shifting political ties and how it may impact you president and ceo of the national urban league. professor of urban studies and author of a new book, and david webb co-founder of the tea party 365. thank you all for joining me. it's a pleasure to have me with you 37. >> this is an interesting moment. we are beyond this historical moment where barack obama comes on television and announces that osama bin ladin has been killed. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin ladin, the leader of al qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children. >> i saw a celebration in the streets, democrats and republicans in agreement. >> obama got osama, it's a bit of a return to whatted mood of the country was after 9/11, when i think there was a unifying sense and a unifying force that the tragedy created that. there's

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are they going to remember osama bin ladin and remember our war on terror and our detainees at guantanamo bay and it's going to backfire and i think it's clear that also did a lot in stalking more generally has drawn superficially in the middle east i mean it was very little evidence of any support for their ideology. these demonstrators who were kind of talking much more in a patriotic language the language of democracy and freedom but i think our policy was over the last ten years after nine eleven really haven't done us a lot of friends in the middle east i think that was president bush's freedom agenda which he promulgated and then kind of backed away from in the wake of the hamas is very. in the west bank and the muslim brotherhood victory in egyptian elections so i think we have an opportunity now to really try again and i think president obama has made some steps towards supporting the demonstrators and supporting reform but our relationships with a number of these different countries so they're complicated so i'm not going to get you know who actually you know cry the killing of u

right a number of pro torture right wingers are now trying to claim that waterboarding is how we got bin ladin i'm just clarify it for you the nickname of the courier that was osama bin laden's contact with the outside world and who the u.s. tracked to get him was provided by high value detainees clicheed mohamed originally then verified by her eyes al libi and hail some is said to have been water boarded one hundred eighty three times but if you look at the timeline it was presented by the obama administration. didn't provide this nickname until two thousand and four we stopped using harsh interrogation techniques on him and two thousand and three after that the fact that it took another four years just to get the guy's real name for operatives on the ground in afghanistan and pakistan and n.s.a. get some investigative work then after he made a fatal phone call and showed up on n.s.a. surveillance pakistani informants wrote down his license plate number which led them to the compound which eventually led them to bin laden so i'd say it was technology surveillance intelligence that led the u.s

aside from the wars the lives lost money spent i never think of the war on terror and osama bin ladin unfortunately managed to do was to bring into question the more rally the ethics of the united states could change who we are as a country because we tortured or to fact has led to international outrage and national shame and justice being thrown out the window because now we have the detainees that we can't even try because of how we treated that but some people out there are actually hearing it vindicated by the death of osama bin laden. well i mean everyone knows or not but you mention the fact that we have changed information several years ago vital information about the courier for obama we have to take that information through waterboarding and some of those who say that waterboarding doesn't work we say that it should be stopped and it usually and we got vital information would directly was too good. and i was right a number of pro torture right wingers are now trying to claim that waterboarding is how we got bin laden let me just clarify it for you the nickname of the courier

have going into two thousand and twelve you would think after the birth certificate released in the bin ladin announcement it would be spring time for the regime but not out on versus the man. despite the recent p.r. victories for the obama administration around the release of his birth certificate in the bin ladin announcement there are still people paying attention the things that matter imagine that and i'm not talking about going after obama student records nother story that obama might be hoping disappears in this new springtime for the obama regime but we have more important things to look forward to that might affect obama's chances at reelection. the debt crisis still looms large unemployment is still high and we are involved in kinetic military action in at least four countries none of which are winnable and joining me now to look at the trends that will be affecting the president's chances at real life in is gerald solemnity of the trends research institute this is the one thing you predicted the great recession that we're still experiencing the panic of two thousand and eight the t

so now the bin ladin is dead is it possible that president obama will use that first drawdown date to remove a considerable number of troops from afghanistan effectively ending our full scale military operation after all what exactly is our mission now especially given that the initial invasion of afghanistan could have been avoided and millions not died and bush decided to take up on his offer to arrest him. here to offer his take on this is your effort best to get a journalist historian specializing in u.s. national security policy welcome. great to have you with us. did the taliban offer to turn the loddon over to the bush administration i think there's no question that they did they were already trying to get some way of getting rid of bin laden even before nine eleven but it was a very complicated matter for one thing it was difficult to find countries like saudi arabia who would take them and i think once nine eleven happened it's very clear that they began to be more intensely interested in trying to make a deal to get rid of bin laden and what happened then after the americans

don't even know who bin ladin it is according to yahoo sixty six percent of the searches for the question who is osama bin laden this sunday following the president's announcement from teenagers aged thirteen to seventeen. all of the hoopla around the lot an announcement and subsequent debate about the boat host of bin laden being released or not has been intended to distract you from the economic issues that will lead to the defeat of obama in next year's election they've actually put out three different narratives already about what happened in pakistan and i would be surprised if this is actually deliberate. i would bet the administration is willing to look a bit clumsy incompetent confused even if it means we get to keep talking about what a brave and heroic leader our president is for throwing his brow at making those tough decisions but today we learned that the number of americans filing for jobless benefits that in a month high. good economic news whether it's real or fabricated and suitably fabricated is blasted out by the obama administration and milk for all it's worth while ba

omar bin ladin the son of the late bin ladin who's now swimming with the fishes mafia style basically said the you know he fears that it's father's killed it'll be a lot more mayhem in the world there are really possible retaliation to the u.s. has put a travel ban in effect or at least you know kind of the warnings in effect which suggests that they too are prepared for a reaction and it's likely to be a bloody one and it's not going to be one that comes you know an income for the new cycle and it's not going to be done for public consumption it's going to be done to try to inflict pain and suffering in response this is at least in their view a war not just a publicity contest i think that's an important point and we thought you know secretary clinton this morning thanks we're now this is not mean we can relax this means we're now going to double down and tell our after it seems like at all across . there's a lot of excitement going on i'm wondering if you see anything larry is between what we've seen you know in a lot fifteen hours or so and other pivotal moment i mean in other word

that it would be further cooperation but the country very much understands that even though osama bin ladin is dead the fight against terror is far from over the man want to demand for a decade is gone the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. years of it cheering doing on right now from some it was a movement a victory for others a movement. president obama is in fact did it was a u.s. strategic. there's one moment analysts say should not be overlooked. some of bin laden may be dead but the threat of terror is very much alive frankly doesn't make much of a difference that bin laden is dead people here were convinced at least for the last two years to be very convinced that the al qaeda figures or people in this region who by the way cannot number more than one hundred are incapable of carrying out any major attacks instead it's russia now kind of terrorists that have made the most recent mercs scales metro glaston airport bombing two of the ladies school bill the tax were masterminded by domestic church in terror leader doku umarov who for years has been try

evidence must be a lie not everyone believes bin ladin related. and speaks for itself varial it see upsets relatives of nine eleven victims as in what president obama really did was anger nine eleven victims not kill bin laden and then there was a worldwide daily poll in which visitors rest a sound off on the death of osama bin laden was popular response to the poll garnering twenty percent of the vote was the timing of obama's order was perfect to distract from his eligibility troubles a perfect response since it combines death the resentment. and the fourth bush response with seven percent of the vote was i'm skeptical bin laden is actually dead figures. there was radio host alex jones his take on bin laden's death yesterday on this network. who schama bin ladan according to two white house sources and i'm on record with this and another state department source we have one of the names just public in two thousand and two saying he guided he's frozen literally frozen and that he would be rolled out in the future if someday demand little alex join

service members involved in the operation which killed osama bin ladin, while also addressing soldiers recently returned from afghanistan. for more on where the fight goes from here, i'm joined by the president of the new american foundation. thank you for joining us. i want to start by asking you, who is going to take over from bin laden, or in fact, i can anybody take over? >> number two has been in place to succeed bin laden really since the founding of out qaeda as an organization, back in 1988. i would expect him to take his constitutional office, as it were. can he phil bin laden's role? i am doubtful about that. bin laden had a spiritual aura. he had presided over the 9/11 attacks. he has a credibility that his successor does not have. >> you mentioned spiritual leadership. how relevant was he to day-to- day operations? >> that was a question that was a mystery since 9/11. there was some suggestion, just by the nature of his communication, that he was in touch with colleagues and involved with decisions about strikes and targets. the evidence seized in his house in abbottabad wi

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the killing of osama bin ladin by american troops has launched a new debate about global security has the world become a safer place or will the death of the al qaeda leader spark new reprisals a new file. gets to help answer this is the director of the center for confident the standings and a cousin of the afghan president had come up out of sight. ten years ago two passenger jets hijacked by al-qaeda terrorists crashed into the buildings of the world trade center in new york killing thousands of people the man who claimed responsibility for the attack top the u.s. most wanted list from then on the u.s. military finally hunted him down and killed him but his death has raised many questions was it necessary to kill bin laden rather than capture and try him and what will the world be after osama and there are no easy answers. hello mr curtis i welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us thank you thank you for the well first of all the u.s. celebrated the killing of bin laden as a major major victory do you can. the assassination of al-qaeda leader has the turning point o

forget that the battle to stop al qaida and its syndicate of terror will not end with the death of bin ladin maybe so much to tell the hundreds if not thousands of americans who came out on the streets of new york and to the white house last night and cheer about bin laden's death. so the devil merica has long been waiting for the how long can a celebration really last osama bin laden may be gone but al qaeda and terrorism are not here is more from our tease and he's now a. the man want to defend all mine for a decade is gone the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden was you can hear some of that cheering going on right now right near the summit was a moment of victory for others a movement of the barest means president obama is in fact dead it was a u.s. strategic i'm sorry but there's one moment analysts say should not be overlooked osama bin laden may be dead but the threat of terror is very much alive frankly doesn't make much of a difference that bin laden is dead people here were convinced a long run at least for the last two years to be very convinced th

the foreign policy implication of osama's bin ladin will be enormous are a lot of questions being raised today on pakistan's role in the death of bin laden or more importantly pakistan's role in the compound of enron was living and was literally just down the street. from the pakistani military academy meaning it was highly unlikely that pakistani intelligence didn't know what was going on right under their noses which would explain why u.s. special forces swarmed the compound without notifying anyone within the pakistani government or the military meanwhile upon learning that bin laden was killed in pockets not in not afghanistan afghan president hamid karzai renewed his call for withdrawal of american troops miss country saying the war on terror is not in afghanistan osama was not an afghanistan they found him in pakistan the war in terror is not an afghan villages the war on terror is not in the houses of innocent afghans but in the safe havens of terrorism outside afghanistan so does this mean it's time to get out of afghanistan and go home and just how tenuous is the relationship no

bad news for those who want to see bin ladin with a whole one as white house that it's not releasing the photos it was press secretary jay carney at today's white house briefing reading a transcript of an upcoming sixty minutes interview with president obama over why he decided not to release the photos. we discussed this internally keep in mind that we are absolutely certain that this was him we've done d.n.a. sampling and testing and so there is no doubt that we killed osama bin laden it is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence or as a propaganda tool that's not who we are. we don't trot out this stuff as trophies that's not who we are what jake carney just said right there strikes right to the heart of what george w. bush did to this country and what president obama is trying to change bush was governor of texas he executed one hundred thirty one people no other governor ever came close to flipping the switch on as many prisoners and bush did it with ease as in two

apparently there has been non to confirm that for sure there is a blotted image of a man resample bin ladin widely circulating in the media right now but it's it's it's said in faith and also for what president obama has been saying this sunday night americans had apparently known about bin laden's whereabouts since last year it was this thing we suggest that they've been preparing this operation for months looks interesting everybody knows that the u.s. has been chasing going to find it on the ground of against them borders in yemen those have been called. drone strikes in pakistan they've been pretty over u.s. it's been widely criticized for those strikes will be scores of civilians that they killed in pakistan it's been an especially sore issue and the question some asked now is could the success of killing bin laden in pakistan give the u.s. more of a carte blanche for carrying out strikes in other countries or to justify those strikes some analysts point out that america's war on terror has been a double edged sure that involve fighting terror and provoking provoking terrorism same tim

since the killing of osama bin ladin and apparently i wasn't happy to the country music a stablish meant i wasn't going to get all the fun take a listen as ed calls out a group of musicians for not being patriotic enough. we should just be boston with pride right now i mean i think i can say that we with tremendous confidence that this was a brave mission based on a gutsy call by president obama i mean all of us except maybe one portion of america i'm waiting on and that's nashville tennessee and ruiz country western singer is that just love to make all these patriotic songs league greenwood are these proud to be an american. come on dude give me a song man we took down the number one terrorist in the world does it have to be a republican president all the time. and you're right ed because the most serious issue that the u.s. is facing right now is the lack of country music songs about been a lot of being assassinated thank you so much for taking time on your show could rest this very important issue i'm not sure that i can think of anything less important in nashville tennessee not comi

making on a satellite phone either by luck or being tipped off some suspect by pakistani intelligence bin ladin of voided the missiles and between october twenty fifth and over twenty five thousand nine hundred ninety eight in a separate trial bin laden was brought in by the taliban for the u.s. embassy bombings in africa which he has denied credit for but he was set free after the united states failed to provide sufficient evidence for conviction. and july of two thousand and one bin laden america's most wanted criminal with a five million dollars bounty on his head allegedly received lifesaving treatment for kidney failure from an american specialist dr terry callaway at the american hospital in dubai before allegedly returning to afghanistan to mastermind the attacks of nine eleven after nine eleven the attacks were used to justify the invasion of afghanistan and eventually iraq and now our involvement in pakistan and while our government was spending trillions of dollars on these occupations bin laden was nearly forgotten about and rarely even used as a justification for the point hundreds

obama said that he had known about bin ladin is where about si's august last year but only last week had he given the order to take him it's been two weeks seize obama and now it's his reelection plans he's been slipping in the polls over inconclusive wars overseas and economic woes at home it's actually led to the president of the united states being beatified almost more than the you know the pope's you know kind of accolades to john paul this is you know obama is cashing in on this day everything for everything that it's worth and you'll notice that his speech last night he kept stressing several times i ordered i promised i's such and such it was clearly done for you know this statement was clearly worded for political advantage and it was unity and joy over the death of these evil man and there has been missing the bigger picture in the last twenty years the war on terror and the way it's being played has earned them more enemies than friends i'm going to check our reporting home washing our. investigative journalist jeremy shall says bin laden may be gone but his agenda will ce

files apparently sees them killed osama bin ladin suggest that he remain closely involved in the terror plots it's one of the justifications from the u.s. government for its handling of bin ladin scrolling i was going to use a gun a explains the violent questioning of terror suspect was also being loaded for helping america's most wanted terrorist. putting a pretty face on years of torture and law u.s. officials talk about the efficiency of enhanced interrogation techniques as they call them in locating bin ladin we have to take that information through waterboarding and some of those who say that waterboarding doesn't work and say that it should be stopped and never use again we got vital information which directly where as to why are you denying that waterboarding was in part of long the tactics used to extract the intelligence that led to the successful mission go i think some of the detainees clearly were you know they used these enhanced interrogation techniques against some of these detainees no tangible proof has been presented as to how torture helped the petain valuable intelli

the week's top stories on art see al qaeda leader osama bin ladin was killed in a covert u.s. operation after a decade long manhunt but the terror threats around the globe lives on as we look. at the u.s. and the e.u. probably small sanctions against the syrian government for its crackdown on protesters military intervention in the country hopes of ever increasing possibility. and final polish military pageantry schools of russian troops march through central moscow in preparation for a major display of the upcoming victory day. welcome this is artsy is one pm sunday afternoon here in moscow my name is kevin owen with a round up of the week's top stories for you and first the story that dominated the news the world's most notorious terrorist killed for almost ten years in hiding a suburb in large was shot during a covert u.s. navy seal operation they found nine eleven mastermind living in a multimillion dollar mansion about fifty kilometers from pakistan's capital but his arteries in this and no reports of deaths are likely to make the world a safer place. a man wanted dead or

this bin ladin really play a. significant world in coordinating all the efforts lately were as some say after a hearty was forced to go undercover after you was forced to go underground he his role was more symbolic my assessment in terms of being on the ground and understanding what seems to be happening i think he very much played the role of a motivator the more role of someone who provided ideological ideological guidance rather than operational guidance i think since two thousand and five since he's been living in abbottabad i think his road has been in many different levels just providing very different videos and audios to his followers for motivational purposes well euphoric some abrasions in the u.s. over the death of manhattan have given way to skepticism conspiracy theories and theories are growing terrorist spotlights in the media has more and. the worst terror attack in u.s. history the horrific nine eleven attacks in new york and washington left some three thousand people dead and created a perceptio

through the rounds i quite frankly don't know a day later they did know the white house announces bin ladin wasn't armed at all and gives this account a woman rather bin laden's wife rushed the u.s. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed bin laden was then shot and killed he was not on your heart and was not armed and now senior pakistani security officials say bin laden's daughter has twelve year old daughter claims he was captured alive in his pakistani hideout and then shot by u.s. special forces now if this proves true it gives credence to questions critics are already raising of whether this killing was outside the law listen to this take. a legal phrase for the forty minute event on sunday afternoon that resulted in the death of bin ladin it's called an extrajudicial killing this means that a government killed someone who was not a soldier on a battlefield who did not pose an immediate threat to the freedom or security of any people that bad government protects and the killing was not a punishment ordered by a judge after a trial every western country except israel and the u

both bush and bin ladin thought they could win the future with war instead they lost the last decade and bin laden has no future and because of bush's wars the future for the united states is looking bleaker than it has in over a century if we really want to win the future as president obama has said he intends to do then we need to stop the wars and once again become a nation of builds up both itself and others that advocates privacy of life and nonviolence and values education and human rights more than it does death and work. the biggest lesson out of the middle east is that the violent guy both lost and is pretty universally hated and the nonviolent people in egypt and tunisia are showing the way through their successes that others from hamas to the united states should stop. and that's the picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our web site at thom hartmann dot com and archie dot com also check out our youtube page eater dot com slash big picture artsy and slash tom hardy this entire show is available as a free podcast on i tunes and don't forget

military they had introduced us to dine and teach us to be scared of them to give our rights some of bin ladin was needed to be the boogie man and that's what we were in afghanistan and pakistan we were told was to give him only recently oh forget about some of bin laden and then they pull a rabbit out of the head and say we got rid of him at a time in pakistan saying get your troops and drones out here at a time when we're talking about extrajudicial assassination attempt against gadhafi which are illegal this is a way to sell it at a time when obama launches his presidential reelection at a time when panetta is going over to defense and betray us over the cia at a time that the afghan pakistan opium securitisation war is not going very well the american people after almost ten years are tired of it they needed to give us a big win and we won't call it feel good but sorry can't see his body we threw him in the ocean and oh we did show you a fake photo and there are some people who say that you know that photos were taken the videos were taken and that will be released in the coming days but i

still in afghanistan especially now that osama bin ladin is out of the picture. the military targets these people because they aren't toeing the line they're not. they're not playing the game but they are just doing their jobs so why are journalists abroad getting killed at the hands of the u.s. military. that evening it's wednesday may fourth by five pm i'm laurin a stranger watching our t.v. now it's a fog of war or you may want to just call it the fog of p.r. the obama administration since announcing bin laden's death has flip flopped on the details first it was a firefight and an armed bin laden fought back listen to this he was engaged in a firefight with those that entered the area of the house he was in and whether or not he got up in the rounds i quite frankly don't know. they later the white house knew that an ounce bin laden wasn't armed at all they gave a different account take a look at a woman rather bin laden's wife rushed the u.s. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not to kill bin laden was then shot and killed he was not on that is just one inc

the white house said they could provide information about bin ladin's life in hiding. pakistan has given the okay. the three wives are in pakistani custody. >>> from the season to the celebrity republicans are contemplating a run in the 2012 race. one candidate plans to announce this week. and he is no stranger to politics. >> reporter: newt gingrich tweeted his plans to announce his run for president on wednesday. the field of potential candidates is wide open and the front runner is unclear. >> i think we have a great pool of candidates, all qualified, a lot of them governors, newt gingrich a lot of people called him the smartest man in politics. >> reporter: bill whalen says that that he is not the fresh face they are looking for. >> it is like pressing the '90s channel on your radio. >> reporter: he says other likely contenders range from myth romney and mike huckaby to new players and what some consider the long shots, donald trump and sarah palin. each debating an uphill challenge against a incumbent president with a foreign policy victory. >> he missed the boat

many are saying of the death of bin ladin marks a major milestone for the war in afghanistan but once this initial celebre tory mood dies down are we really going to see a change in policy or just the continuation of a never ending struggle artie's bring a portnoy of things out. nine and a half years on the war in afghanistan has grown visibly worse while u.s. rhetoric surrounding it has consistently spun in circles we are making progress that is what it was unable to make the progress that we had made and i think it's possible that by the end of this year he will have. since two thousand and three washington has repeatedly per cleaned turning points for a conflict that critics call failing but the reality is that things are still mean that things are worse than they were. every year we send more troops every year as we spend more money and the insurgency grows and size karzai government gets weaker and the bios gets worse nearly fifteen hundred u.s. soldiers and ten thousand afghan civilians have been killed in a war costing america two billion dollars per week meanwhile after sasson

and pakistan after bin ladin. if you can. still. ok i've not had to go back to you in washington here we haven't mentioned the eight hundred pound gorilla in this discussion that's getting out of afghanistan the u.s. wants to get out of afghanistan now the pakistanis want the americans out of pakistan but they just have different visions and doing that that's what's causing all this tension here isn't it least at this stage where we're going to all of the gloating that we've heard. yes absolutely afghanistan. is a very contentious issue between the united states and pakistan as and i mentioned before the united states and pakistan have conflicting interests in afghanistan. the taliban and its associates are the enemies of americans and the afghan government while they are supported by certain circles within the pakistani establishment this year two thousand and eleven will be a very critical year in afghanistan in july the obama administration is planning to withdraw. begin withdrawal of troops from the country and also it is a begi

gaps in the original i mean we saw this piece of footage that was released that was allegedly asama bin ladin watching t.v. in his luxury compound and i mean close analysis of that photograph shows that it's nothing like any of the. photographs of asama bin laden but i mean this story has still got some legs i'm not suggesting it off for a few days we know all the facts but what i am suggesting is that people should not be taking the version of events offered by the mainstream media of face value and we should actually take it as beholden upon all of us to diggers deeply as possible to establish what we believe to be the truth it's just over a year since the massive oil spill from b.p. in the gulf of mexico you suggest that it wasn't in fact caused by a technical failure or incompetence in any way that you think that something deeper and more sinister lurks behind it were my. for that belief is that there are some very very important questions that both b.p. and the u.s. government have done their utmost to make sure don't get asked and to be very specific the deepwater horizon at the time ha

among those supported by the us was also some of bin ladin whose group eventual evolved into al qaida one. episode you know and with. great success. but one lesson was learnt victory over evil makes great television and approval ratings for the men in charge . obama said that he had known about bin laden's whereabouts sees august last year but only last week had he given the order to take him it's been two weeks sees obama and now it's his reelection plants he's been slipping in the polls over inconclusive wars overseas and economic woes at home has actually led to the president of the united states being beatified almost more than the you know the pope's you know kind of accolades to john paul this is you know obama is cashing in on this everything for everything that it's worth and you'll notice that his speech last night he kept stressing several times i ordered i promised eyes such and such it was clearly done for you know the statement was clearly word for political advantage that it was unity and joy over the death of these evil man here it's been missing the bigger picture in t

the white house said they could provide information about bin ladin's life in hiding. pakistan has given the okay. the three wives are in pakistani custody. >>> from the season to the celebrity republicans are contemplating a run in the 2012 race. one candidate plans to announce this week. and he is no stranger to politics. >> reporter: newt gingrich tweeted his plans to announce his run for president on wednesday. the field of potential candidates is wide open and the front runner is unclear. >> i think we have a great pool of candidates, all qualified, a lot of them governors, newt gingrich a lot of people called him the smartest man in politics. >> reporter: bill whalen says that that he is not the fresh face they are looking for. >> it is like pressing the '90s channel on your radio. >> reporter: he says other likely contenders range from myth romney and mike huckaby to new players and what some consider the long shots, donald trump and sarah palin. each debating an uphill challenge against a incumbent president with a foreign policy victory. >> he missed the boat

loved ones it is terror justice has been done the world welcomes the news that al qaeda leader osama bin ladin is dead with russia joining the praise but warning against the easing off the terror pressure also this . the alleged killing of colonel gadhafi son and a nato airstrike sparked outrage in libya as angry crowds burned foreign embassies in revenge plots. of the great economic desperation intensifies in the u.s. with debt collectors resorting to machias methods to make americans pay their way. and as many countries question their nuclear safety in the light of the fukushima crisis our team is touring a new russian reactor to assess its hold her ability. to pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story u.s. president barack obama has confirmed that osama bin laden has been killed in a special operation in pakistan sources suggest that his body was buried at sea something which will do little to counter claims from the pakistani taliban that the al qaeda leader may be still alive or if he's losing cavanagh reports from washington d.c. that his death has brou

kevin zero in on the top story less than two days after a summer bin ladin was shot dead pakistan is now called in the crosshairs of international scrutiny observers have been baffled over how the world's most wanted terrorist managed to hide just a kilometer away from the country's military academy over it's not the only uncertainty surrounding bin laden's death which marks a major milestone in the global war on terror the sting of the terror here is the increased risk of revenge attacks coming from al qaeda supporters and as you can reports next to the operation one of them barack obama's presidential ambitions any arm either. the great then that a moment shrouded in secrecy as americans celebrated the killing of the nation's number one terrorist they had no other proof of his death but the word of their president they needed that give us a big win and we can walk tall and feel good well sorry can't see his body we threw him in the ocean and all we did show you a fake photo according to u.s. officials american special forces killed osama bin laden in his mentioning pakistan

on terror also with pre-election stunt critics doubt al qaeda will crumble optima death of osama bin ladin but believe the timing was perfect to strengthen the u.s. president's political ambitions. news of the death of the world's top terrorist post quake to spread overshadowing the nato bombing of the home of the libyan leader and the outrage over the apparent assassination attempt. georgia's president says his country is hospitable to all but a russian a relative of an opposition leader is welcome to lead by threats and violence from police. also justice for the man who blew out of chapman's cover throwing her to the wolves along with ten other russian agents in the u.s. during last year's transatlantic spy saga. four pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story less than two days after osama bin laden was shot dead pakistan is now caught in the crosshairs of international scrutiny observers have been baffled over how the world's most wanted terrorist managed to hide only a kilometer away from the country's military academy but it's not the only uncertaint

war in iraq and you can see direct instances in which resources were being diverted from hunting bin ladin in afghanistan and the tribal regions in pakistan to iraq for example their army delta units that were transferred from the bin laden unit to iraq to hunt for. kind of units in iraq and in two thousand and five bush quietly close the cia's bin laden unit this is the unit that was dedicated specifically to hunting bin laden because they were intelligence needs for iraq and so he had to switch resources so i think a lot of that rhetoric about you know saying that bush was doing this intentionally asserted sort of some kind of grand scheme was to cover up this huge embarrassment of not being able to find him because you just wasn't resourcing it properly i mean tora bora is the key instance here this is in two thousand and one right after the invasion we had been in our grasp he was wounded he was on the run and there's about one hundred american commandos and they kept asking for reinforcements and they made repeated requests reinforcements a thousand marines to walk off the exits into

russia's north caucuses a few first in the said the killing of bin ladin this obviously being hailed as a major success for the us this is it likely to have much effect on the threats of global terrorism as a whole. that's right the u.s. is reveling in celebrations of what are calling a victory and justice being served thousands of people gathered outside the white house chanting usa usa most certainly osama bin ladin brought the united states together with a sense of national unity against a common enemy but in all these celebrations what i think is being lost and you'll hear this from experts and critics throughout the day is the question of what now what does that mean for global terrorism i mean when was the last time we heard osama bin ladin take credit for a major terror it's been years and that's because the last two major terror attacks on a major global city was on moscow last year of course the moscow metro bombings and then just in january if we reflect attack on the international airport where not just russians were targeted but nationals of all kinds became the victims o