US Cheers Bin Laden's Death

Hundreds flock to Ground Zero after Obama declares terrorist dead. 'Great day to be American,' says one

by Associated Press

Hundreds of jubilant people streamed to the spot where the World Trade Center towers fell almost 10 years ago, waving American flags, snapping pictures and breaking into song early Monday to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden.

It was easily the happiest crowd ever at a site where more familiar scenes are bagpipes playing "Amazing Grace" and solemn speeches memorializing the dead during annual anniversary ceremonies.

Guy Madsen drove from his home in New Jersey with his son when he heard of bin Laden's death.

"This is Judgment Day and we're winning," he said.

Farther uptown in Times Square, dozens stood together on the clear spring night and broke into applause when a New York Fire Department sports utility vehicle drove by, flashed its lights and sounded its siren.

A man held an American flag and others sang "The Star-Spangled Banner."

And in Washington, a large group gathered in front of the White House, chanting "USA! USA!" and waving American flags. The throng had filled the street in front and was spilling into Lafayette Park.

Will Ditto, 25, a legislative aide, said he was getting ready to go to bed Sunday night when his mother called him with the news. He decided to leave his home on Capitol Hill and join the crowd. As he rode the subway to the White House, he told fellow passengers the news.

"It's huge," he said. "It's a great day to be an American."

George Washington University student Alex Washofsky, 20, and his roommate Dan Fallon, 20, joined the crowd.

"George Bush said, `Bring him to justice, dead or alive,' and we did it," said Washofsky, a junior and a member of the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps.

The crowd began gathering before President Barack Obama addressed the nation at about 11:30 pm Sunday.

Some people sprinted up on foot to join the crowd. Others arrived on bicycles, and some people brought dogs.

He's dead, but now what?

In Dearborn, Michigan, a, heavily Middle Eastern suburb that's home to one of the nation's largest Arab and Muslim communities, a small crowd gathered outside City Hall, chanting "USA" and waving American flags.

Across town, some honked their car horns as they drove along the main street where most of the Arab-American restaurants and shops are located.

At the Arabica Cafe, the big screen TVs that normally show sports were all turned to news about bin Laden.

Cafe manager Mohamed Kobeissi says it's finally justice for those victims.

In Philadelphia, at a game between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, chants of "USA! USA!" began in the top of the ninth inning at Citizens Bank Park. Fans could be seen all over the stadium checking their phones and sharing the news.

Shirley Miller watched a headline flip across a monitor in Chicago's O'Hare Airport before her daughter and husband texted her with the same news: Bin Laden was dead.

But for the 42-year-old Miller, whose son has deployed twice to Afghanistan following 9/11, the news didn't soothe worries that bin Laden's death could prompt more attacks against the U.S.

"OK. He's dead, but now what?" Miller asked as she flew from Chicago to Little Rock, Arkansas.

"It's kind of scary because you don't know what's going to happen," she said. "It could get worse."

Osam Bin Laden IS Dead

Osama bin Laden, hunted as the mastermind behind the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, has been killed, President Obama announced tonight.

The president called the killing of bin Laden the "most significant achievement to date" in the effort to defeat al Qaeda.

Bin Laden was located at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, which was monitored and when the time was determined to be right, the president said, he authorized a "targeted operation."

"A small team of Americans carried out the operation," Obama said. "After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body."

DNA testing confirmed that it was bin Laden, sources told ABC News.

Sources said the attack was carried out by Joint Special Operations Command forces working with the CIA.

Vice President Biden briefed Republican congressional leaders this evening on the operation, which had been kept secret until shortly before the president's announcement tonight.

Former President George W. Bush said in a statement tonight that Obama called him to inform him of the news of bin Laden's death.

Bush called the operation a "momentous achievement" that "marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001.

"I congratulated him and the men and women of our military and intelligence communities who devoted their lives to this mission. They have our everlasting gratitude," the former president said in a statement. "The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done."

Outside the White House, a crowd of about 200 people has gathered with American flags. They are singing the Star Spangled banner and chanting "USA USA"

His death brings to an end a tumultuous life that saw bin Laden go from being the carefree son of a Saudi billionaire, to terrorist leader and the most wanted man in the world.

Bin Laden created and funded the al Qaeda terror network, which was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The Saudi exile had been a man on the run since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan overthrew the ruling Taliban regime, which harbored bin Laden.

In a video filmed two months after the Sept. 11 attacks, bin Laden gloated about the attack, saying it had exceeded even his "optimistic" calculations.

"Our terrorism is against America. Our terrorism is a blessed terrorism to prevent the unjust person from committing injustice and to stop American support for Israel, which kills our sons," he said in the video.

Long before the Sept. 11 attacks, bin Laden was known as an enemy of the United States. He was suspected of playing large roles in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. Embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden in October 2000.

In addition, authorities say bin Laden and his al Qaeda network were involved in previous attacks against U.S. interests -- including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, failed plots to kill President Clinton and the pope, and attacks on U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and Somalia.

Bin Laden also used his millions to bankroll terrorist training camps in Sudan, the Philippines and Afghanistan, sending "holy warriors" to foment revolution and fight with fundamentalist Muslim forces across North Africa, in Chechnya, Tajikistan and Bosnia.

Until the capture of one of his top al Qaeda lieutenants in March 2003, there had been no confirmation of his whereabouts -- or even that he was still alive -- since late 2001, when he appeared in a series of videotapes later released to news organizations.

In recent years, several audio recordings of bin Laden have been authenticated by U.S. officials and made public. In an 18-minute videotape weeks before the 2004 U.S. presidential election, bin Laden threatened fresh attacks on the United States as well as his intent to push America into bankruptcy.

Young Man With a Privileged Life

Born in 1957, bin Laden was a son of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest construction magnate. Saudi sources remembered him as a typical young man whose intense religiosity began to emerge as he grew fascinated with the ancient mosques of Mecca and Medina, which his family's company was involved in rebuilding.

Bin Laden attended schools in Jedda, Saudi Arabia, and was encouraged to marry early, at the age of 17, to a Syrian girl and family relation. She was to be the first of several wives. He attended King Abdul-Aziz University and was slated to join the family business. He soon chose a different path, however.

Former classmates of bin Laden recall him as a frequent patron of nightclubs, who drank and caroused with his Saudi royalty cohorts. Yet it was also at the university that bin Laden met the Muslim fundamentalist Sheik Abdullah Azzam, perhaps his first teacher of religious politics and his earliest radical influence.

Azzam spoke fervently of the need to liberate Islamic nations from foreign interests and interventions, and he indoctrinated his disciples in the strictest tenets of the Muslim faith. Bin Laden, however, would eventually cultivate a brand of militant religious extremism that exceeded his teacher's.

He began his relationship with fundamental Islamic groups in the early 1970s. His religious passion exploded in 1979 when Russia invaded Afghanistan. Bin Laden left his comfortable Saudi home for Afghanistan to participate in the Afghan jihad, or holy war, against the Soviet Union -- a cause that the United States funded, pouring $3 billion into the Afghan resistance via the CIA.

Turning Against the Saudi Elite

His active opposition to the Soviet Union and his monetary support in purchasing arms, establishing training camps, and building houses, roads and other infrastructure, cemented his position as a hero among many people.

In 1988, he and the Egyptians founded al Qaeda, ("The Base"), a network initially designed to build fighting power for the Afghan resistance.

Bin Laden's politics became more radical during the war. Upon returning to his home in Saudi Arabia, he was widely honored as a hero. But he returned to a country that he perceived had stepped away from the fundamentals of Islam. He declared the Saudi ruling family "insufficiently Islamic" and increasingly advocated the use of violence to force movement toward extremism.

Bin Laden saw American influence in Saudi Arabia as counter to everything he believed. He fell into disfavor with the Saudi government and moved his family to Sudan where he established terrorist camps -- training and equipping terrorists from a dozen countries.

Bin Laden would not compromise his religious beliefs and after three years of continued criticism of the Saudi royal family, his own family disowned him.

Saudi Arabia stripped bin Laden of his citizenship in the mid-'90s for his alleged activities against the royal family, after he had left the country for Sudan. He later was expelled from Sudan under U.S., Egyptian and Saudi pressure. In 1996, he took refuge in Afghanistan.

Back to Afghanistan

Former mujahideen commanders close to the Taliban said that, in Afghanistan, bin Laden bankrolled the hard-line Islamic militia's capture of Kabul under the leadership of Mullah Mohammed Omar. He became one of Omar's most trusted advisers.

One of bin Laden's main strengths among the Muslim people was that followers saw him as a true believer in the faith. In their eyes he transcended other leaders who are viewed as dictators who care little for Islam or the people they lead. Bin Laden entered their lives with a message they can follow and he had the cash at his disposal to carry out that message.

Bin Laden was said to personally control about $300 million of his family's $5 billion fortune. His role as a financier of terrorism is pivotal, experts said, because he revolutionized the financing of extremist movements by forming and funding his own private terror network.

In 1998, he issued an edict openly declared war on America: "We -- with God's help -- call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it."

Bin Laden committed himself to expelling all Americans and Jews from Muslim holy lands. "Osama bin Laden may be the most dangerous non-state terrorist in the world," Sandy Berger, President Clinton's national security adviser, told ABC News.

Most Wanted Man on Earth

His place in American history is relatively new, but in a short time he left a violent mark.

In 1993, bin Laden was linked by U.S. officials to the bombing of the World Trade Center that killed six people. He is also believed to have orchestrated at least a dozen attacks, some successful, some not. Among the worst of these were two truck bombings, both on Aug. 7, 1998, of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Clinton responded with cruise missile attacks on suspected al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. In November 1998, the U.S. State Department promised $5 million to anyone with information leading to bin Laden's arrest.

Despite attempts to apprehend him, bin Laden eluded the American government and continued plotting against it.

The same group, with bin Laden at the helm, is widely believed to be responsible for the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole.

Then came the stunning Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. On a clear, late-summer morning, two hijacked commercial jets flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. About an hour later, another hijacked airliner slammed into the Pentagon in the nation's capital. A fourth hijacked jet did not reach its target, crashing in western Pennsylvania instead.

When the massive towers collapsed in flames, nearly 3,000 people perished. Among those lost in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania were the 19 hijackers, most of whom have been linked to al Qaeda operations. Bin Laden denied involvement in the attacks, but he praised the hijackers for their acts. The U.S. government nevertheless regarded the terrorist leader as its prime suspect and stepped up the manhunt.

In March 2005, Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf admitted that bin Laden had been in Pakistan in the spring of 2004 and was almost captured. Intelligence officials said they believed he was hiding in the rugged mountains that straddle the border with Afghanistan. The U.S. government even launched a series of television and radio ads in Pakistan trumpeting the $25 million reward for his capture.

In January 2006, a purported Bin Laden audio tape was released where a male voice threatens the United States with more attacks on U.S. soil.



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Why Do Muslims hate Everybody?

Muslims hate everybody, including themselves!
In the name of Allah and jihad, 270 millions of people were massacared and women raped since Islam was born, all around the world. We are a victim of islam...... murder, rape, loot....and they say Islam means "peace" and Allah is great and merciful!

Let's examine what Islam is about:

Muslims hate Jews.
Muslims hate Christians.
Muslims hate Buddhists.
Muslims hate Hindus.
Muslims hate Zoros.
Muslims hate Yajidis.
Muslims hate Bahis.
Muslims hate Ahamadis.
Muslims hate the West.
Muslims hate Muslims.

The list can go on and on.....

They hate everybody. We are part of “everybody.” They didn’t notice us or care before we showed up in the region, but we’re there now, we can’t leave any time soon, so we’re stuck with each other.

They also hate each other as much as, if not more than, they hate us. It doesn’t matter how nice Barack Obama is. He can’t change this. None of us can change this.

The roots of hate are in the Qur'an:

Qur'an, Sura 2:191, And slay them wherever ye catch them.

Sura - 4:56
Those who disbelieve Our revelations, We shall expose them to the Fire. As often as their skins are consumed We shall exchange them for fresh skins that they may taste the torment. Lo! Allah is ever Mighty, Wise.

Sura - 5:51
O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.

Sura - 9:123
O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him.

Sura - 3:151
We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and evil is the abode of the unjust.

Sura - 4:89
They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks.

Sura - 8:60
And prepare against them what force you can and horses tied at the frontier, to terrorize thereby the enemy of Allah..

Sura - 8:12
I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.


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Why Do Muslims Hate Hindus?

Unlike muslim countries,India is a secular country and everyone is free to follow one's chosen religion,and unlike islamic countries you are not treated as second hand and third rate citizens with no basic rights. Although kashmir is a part of india but Hindus were treated as second hand citizens as it is a muslim dominated state.....If majority population of india treat the muslims of india in a similar way as hindus of kashmir were treated,Then let me asure you that 140 million muslims will change their faith and religion in just 5-10 years.

Muslims of India failed in their cause of converting India into islamic state and that is their greatest regret...

Second part by: R. Upadhyay

Historically, India has been facing the challenge of Hate-Qafir barbarism from the desert marauders and Arabian imperialists ever since Islamic expeditions into Indian sub-continent.

The episode which started in 712 AD by Mohammad bin Qasim was carried forward by Ghauri, Gajni, Khilji, Tuglaq, Lodi and the Moghuls.

With the advent of British rule in the sub-continent, the desperate Islamist clergy-class who enjoyed power and privilege during Muslim rule revisited the history of the slogan – ‘Islam is in danger’ and ‘I hate you infidel’ raised over a century earlier by Shah Wali Ullah, and others launched Deoband movement with a sole objective to restore the Islamic rule that was lost to the British.

The Muslim feudal class particularly from Arabian lineage on the other hand made a tactical alliance with the British and launched a parallel Aligarh movement led by Sir Sayed Ahmad Khan who propounded the two-nation theory, also a part of hate-Qafir ideology of the Islamist world. Both the movements however, had a common objective to bring back the Islamic glory in the sub-continent and hence they took the Hindu reformist movements like Arya Samaj and foundation of Indian National Congress as a challenge to the domination of Muslims over their former subjects whom they always regarded as culturally and socially impure as well as inferior to them. The alliance of Aligrhians with the British and of Deobandis with the Congress was only a strategy for their long term objective. This hate-Hindu medieval mindset gradually culminated in the creation of Pakistan is unfortunately still continuing today

In a linguistic sense the term Pakistan means a land of pure. It was coined by Rahmat Ali, an Indian student in Cambridge in 1933, when he had launched an aggressive propagation in support of two-nation theory. Mohammad Ali Jinnah picked up this term and demanded a separate state for Muslims. He argued that it was not possible for the ‘pures’ to co-exist with the Hindus. Thus, when a new sovereign state of ‘pure’ was created with hate-Hindu political ideology, synonymous to hate-India, it became a perpetual national policy of Pakistan and remained the primacy of the governing principle of Mullah-Military combine Government.

With an objective to expand Islamist rule in India and revive the institution of Caliphate in South Asia, the successive rulers in Pakistan from Jinnah to Zardari carried forward the legacy of the centuries-old Hate-Infidel buzzword of the Islamist conquests and formulated the national policy of their country against India.

The Islamo-fascist military –mullah controlled rule in Pakistan ever since its birth aggressively campaigned to promote the culture of hate and ethos of inequality on grounds of religious faith against India and deeply ingrained them in the psyche of their people. Accordingly, the school text books were changed with distorted facts of history to create hate against India among the students and youths.

Pakistani rulers misguided their people by preaching India-bashing as pre-requisite to qualify as a patriotic Pakistani. In the name of Pakistan studies, the officially prescribed text books in schools created a culture of Hate-India in the mind of students.

The class 5 book suggested that the Hindus helped the British to overthrow the Muslim rule from the sub-continent. “The British had the objective to take over India and to achieve this, they made Hindus join them and Hindus were very glad to side with the British. After capturing the subcontinent, the British began on the one hand loot of all the things produced in this area, and on the other, in conjunction with Hindus, to greatly suppress the Muslims.”

The Book for Class 8 says: “Their (Muslim saints) teachings dispelled many superstitions of the Hindus and reformed their bad practices. Thereby Hindu religion of the olden times came to an end.”(Islamisation of Pakistan by Y.C.Rosser). Eulogizing Jihad and martyrdom the book urged the students to join the holy war against India. Madrasas in Pakistan on the other hand played a key role in brutalizing the mindset of unemployed or under-employed Pakistani youths with lofty Islamic notion of Jihad and Shahadat (Martyrdom) as real life and predicting the revival of glorious Muslim rule there.

Such hate-India policy had a logical culmination of extreme Islamism in the mind of youths which gave birth to various terror groups in Pakistan and its army used them as strategic assets. They created Taliban for their strategic end in Afghanistan and India which subsequently proved like Indian epic demon Bhasmasur who gained strength from Lord Shiva but latter turned towards his own creator. Though, Lord Shiva trapped the demon and got him killed, Pakistan is still facing the challenge of Taliban which it had created for its strategic interest against India and Afghanistan.

Unfortunately, the western powers particularly America which claims to be the champion of democracy has never been interested in taking a larger view of the danger of hate-Qafir national policy of Pakistan. Without analyzing the medieval mindset of the Mullah-Military rulers of Pakistan the successive US Governments included this Frankenstein monster in their various strategic alliances like NATO, CENTO and SEATO and provided huge military aid, which was mostly used against India.

America never faced any problem of Islamism due to the microscopic strength of Islamic population (0.6%). “The highest, generally-accepted estimate of Muslims (including children) in the United States is 2.35 million (0.6% of the total population)” ( Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia). They could easily tackle the problem of Islamist terrorism in their country following September 11, 2001 as it was free of any home grown sleeper cells of Islamism. Dr. Peter Hammond in his well researched book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat suggests that as long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. Contrary to it when Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions.

The problem with Pakistan is its habitual dependence on foreign aid. In fact the Mullah-Military combine in stead of leading the country in a positive direction and promoting developments have become accustomed to live on the Zakat (Alm) from Saudi Arabia and America and therefore not interested in any development in the country. To justify alms from oil-rich Arab world Pakistani ruling class is spending liberally in hate-Qafir campaign and also amassing huge wealth which they deposit in western countries particularly USA and Europe.

With hate-Hindu national policy, they succeeded in reducing the Hindus from 20 percent to just below two percent.

A section of Pakistani people who have all along since the birth of their country in 1947 been clamouring for friendship with their immediate neighbour but they are not ready to understand the Hindu cleansing policy of their rulers .Are they not aware that the Hindu population of Pakistan which was between 15 to 20 percent crores at the time of partition is now reduced to 1.20 % only? (1998 census conducted by the Government of Pakistan). Even the U.S. State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2002 estimates Hindus at 1.03 millions.

Have they ever tried to look into the Hate-Hindu curriculum in Pakistan studies text books which were introduced by the Mullha-Military alliance and made them compulsory in the schools of their country? Pakistan was created as a separate Islamic state but its on going programmes for propagating Islamist extremism by the ruling class was nothing but to inculcate Jihadi mindset among their people against neighbouring Qafir-majority country.

Against the backdrop of the above discussed Islamist character and hate India policy of Pakistan, when US president Obama in a sideline meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during G20 meet in London on April 2 this year expressed the idea for “more effective dialogue” between India and Pakistan for easing tension, the people of this country failed to understand his musings.

The advisory words of US President may be amusing for all the lovers of peace but had Obama peeped into the history of Hate-India policy of Pakistan ever since its emergence as a separate nation, he would have first asked the latter to transform its national policy first. However, instead of giving such advice to his trusted ally US Congress is debating the approval of billions of dollars of military and civil aid to Pakistan despite the doubtful credibility of the latter’s national policy towards India. Pakistan used a larger portion of the aid it got in past from America against India and there is no guarantee that the Mullah-Military establishment would use the current aid exclusively against Taliban and other terror groups. He must be aware that even the US Commission on International Religious Freedom has branded Pakistan and some other countries as serious violators of religious freedom and has asked the US Government “to formally designate them and subject them to punitive action”. Despite this ground reality Barack Obama seems determined to follow his predecessor in helping Pakistan with billions of military aid which is disastrous to his peace initiative in South Asia.

Unless Pakistan changes its "hate India" national policy, peace in South Asia will remain only a dream.


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