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အိုစမာဘင္လာဒင္

May 2011

ဘင္လာဒင္ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈ ဗီဒီယိုကို ၀ိုင္းၾကည့္ေနေသာ သမၼတအိုဘားမား၏ အေမရိကန္အစိုးရ


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aye thu <ayekyawthu2000@yahoo.com.sg> Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:56 PM

အိုစမာဘင္လာဒင္ ဖမ္းဆီးရမိ (Photos Included)

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အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု၏ ကမၻာ့အလိုရွိဆံုး ရာဇ၀တ္ေကာင္ ျဖစ္ေသာ အယ္လ္ေကးဒါး အၾကမ္းဖက္အဖြဲ႔ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ အိုစမာဘင္လာဒင္ကို မေန႔က ေမလ ၂ ရက္ေန႔က ပါကစၥတန္ႏိုင္ငံ
ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ အစၥလာမ္မာဘတ္ အနီး၌ အေသဖမ္းမိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။

အေမရိကန္ မရိန္းတပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္အခ်ိဳ႕သည္ အစၥလာမ္မာဘတ္ျမိဳ႕ႏွင့္ မိုင္ရွစ္ဆယ္ခန္႔အကြာရွိ ဘင္လာဒင္ ပုန္းခိုေနရာ စံအိမ္ၾကီးကို အျပင္းအထန္ ၀င္ေရာက္စီးနင္း တိုက္ခိုက္ခဲ့ျပီး ႏွစ္ဖက္
အျပန္အလွန္ တိုက္ပြဲ မိနစ္ေလးဆယ္ခန္႔ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည္ဟု သိရသည္။ ဘင္လာဒင္ကို လက္ရဖမ္းမိရန္ ၾကိဳးပမ္းခဲ့ၾကေသာ္လည္း ဘင္လာဒင္က ၄င္း၏ သားတစ္ဦး၊ ဇနီးတစ္ဦးႏွင့္
အိမ္ေစႏွစ္ဦးတို႔ကို လူသားဒိုင္းမ်ား အျဖစ္ အသံုးျပဳ၍ အကာအကြယ္ယူ တိုက္ခိုက္ခဲ့ေသာေၾကာင့္ အေသသာ ပစ္ဖမ္းလိုက္ရေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
အေမရိကန္သမၼတႏွင့္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားသည္ ဘင္လာဒင္၏ ေနအိမ္ကို ၀င္ေရာက္စီးနင္းပံုမွ အစ ေနာက္ဆံုး ဘင္လာဒင္၏ ဘယ္ဖက္ မ်က္လံုးကို က်ည္ဆံေဖာက္၀င္ကာ အေသပစ္ခတ္
ဖမ္းဆီးမိပံုအထိ တိုက္ရိုက္ ထုတ္လႊင့္ျပသမွဳမ်ားကို တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ား၏ ဟဲလ္မက္တြင္ တပ္ထားေသာ ကင္မရာမွတစ္ဆင့္ စိတ္၀င္တစား သဲထိတ္ရင္ဖို ၾကည့္ရွဳခဲ့ၾကသည္။

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ဘင္လာဒင္၏ ေနအိမ္သည္ ၂၀၀၅ ခုႏွစ္ကတည္းက ပါကစၥတန္ႏိုင္ငံ၌ လွိ်ဳ႕၀ွက္စြာအစီစဥ္တက် ေဆာက္လုပ္ျပီးစီးခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္ျပီး ေဒၚလာတစ္သန္းတန္ဖိုးရွိကာ အထူးၾကီးမားေသာ အိမ္ၾကီး
ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ၁၂ ေပမွ ၁၈ ေပအထိျမင့္မားေသာ တံတိုင္းမ်ား၊ လံုျခံဳေရးစနစ္မ်ား တင္းၾကပ္စြာ ပါ၀င္ျပီး အေမရိကန္ အထူးတပ္ဖြဲ႔မ်ားက လွိ်ဳ႕၀ွက္ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ ေလ့လာေနခဲ့ေၾကာင္း
သိရသည္။ အဆိုပါအိမ္ၾကီး၌ ထူးျခားမွဳ အေနျဖင့္ လူခ်မ္းသာမ်ား၏ အေဆာင္အေယာင္မ်ား အျပည့္အ၀ ရွိေသာ္လည္း ဖုန္းလိုင္းႏွင့္ အင္တာနက္လိုင္း တပ္ဆင္ထားျခင္း လံုး၀မရွိေၾကာင္း၊
ဆက္သြယ္ေရး လမ္းေၾကာင္းမ်ားကို အေမရိကန္မ်ား ၾကားျဖတ္ ခိုးနားေထာင္ျခင္း၊ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ား ေဖာက္ထြင္းျခင္းတို႔ မလုပ္ႏိုင္ေစရန္ ရည္ရြယ္ျခင္း ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

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အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုအေနျဖင့္ အျပစ္မဲ့ လူသားေပါင္း မ်ားစြာ ေသဆံုးေစခဲ့သည့္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မွဳမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ အယ္လ္ေကးဒါး ေခါင္းေဆာင္ အိုစမာဘင္လာဒင္ကို
အေသဖမ္းဆီးႏိုင္ခဲ့ျပီ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ႏိုင္ငံသူ ႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားႏွင့္ ကမၻာသို႔ ၀မ္းေျမာက္၀မ္းသာ ေၾကညာအပ္ပါေၾကာင္း သမၼတအိုဘားမားက မေန႔က အေမရိကန္ ရုပ္သံသတင္း၌
အထူးအေရးေပၚ မိန္႔ခြန္းတို တစ္ရပ္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။
ထိုသတင္းေၾကညာခ်က္ အျပီး၌ အေမရိကန္ျပည္သူ ေထာင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ တို႔သည္ အိမ္ျဖဴေတာ္ အျပင္၌ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္စြာ စုေ၀းကာ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သီခ်င္းကို သံျပိဳင္သီဆိုခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း၊
လမ္းမမ်ားေပၚ၌လည္း လူေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အလံမ်ား ကိုင္ေဆာင္ေ၀ွ႔ယမ္း၍ စုေ၀းေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။

ေဆာ္ဒီအာေရဗ် ႏိုင္ငံ၌ ေမြးဖြားခဲ့ျပီး မိဘမ်ိဳးရိုး ၾကြယ္၀ခ်မ္းသာေသာ အိုစမာဘင္လာဒင္သည္ ၁၉၈၈ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ အယ္လ္ေကးဒါး စစ္ေသြးၾကြ အၾကမ္းဖက္ အဖြဲ႔ကို တည္ေထာင္ခဲ့ျပီး
အာဖရိကတိုက္ရွိ အေမရိကန္သံရံုးႏွစ္ရံုး ဗံုးခြဲမွဳ၊ အေမရိကန္ပိုင္ USS Cole သေဘၤာ တိုက္ခိုက္မွဳႏွင့္ ၂၀၀၁ ခုႏွစ္က လူေပါင္း ၃၂၆၄ ဦးေသဆံုးေစခဲ့ေသာ ၉/၁၁ ေလယာဥ္ျပန္ေပးဆြဲ၍
ကမၻာ့ကုန္သြယ္ေရးစင္တာ အေဆာက္အအံုကို တိုက္ခိုက္မွဳ စသည့္ ေျမာက္ျမားလွစြာေသာ အၾကမ္းဖ်က္မွဳမ်ားျဖင့္ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုမွ အလိုရွိဆံုးေသာ အၾကမ္းဖ်က္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္

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ျဖစ္သည္။

အယ္လ ေကးဒါးတို႔ေ ၾကာင့္ လံုး ၀ျပိဳ လဲသ ြာ းျပီး လူေ ထာင္ေ ပါင္း မ်ားစြာ ေသေၾကခဲ့ရ သည့္ ကမၻာ ့က ုန ္သ ြယ ္ေ ရးစင္တ ာ တိုက ္ခ ိုက ္မ ွဳ ၾကီး

၄င္းနည္းတူ အယ္လ္ေကးဒါး အဖြဲ႔၏ ဒုတိယေခါင္းေဆာင္ အဗၺဒူဂါနီကိုလည္း ဧျပီလ ၂၆ရက္ေန႔က အေသဖမ္းဆီးႏိုင္ခဲ့ျပီး ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ကမၻာ့သတင္းမ်ား အရ သိရသည္။ ထိုသို႔
အယ္လ္ကိုင္းဒါး ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားကို ေခ်မွဳန္းႏိုင္ျခင္းေၾကာင့္ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုအေပၚ ကလဲ့စားေခ် တိုက္ခိုက္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မွဳမ်ား ထပ္မံေပၚေပါက္လာဖြယ္ ရွိသျဖင့္
ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပရွိ ျပည္သူမ်ား အထူးသတိထားၾကရန္ႏွင့္ လံုျခံဳေရးမ်ားကို ထပ္မံ တိုးျမွင့္ေပးသြားမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သမၼတအိုဘားမားက မိန္႔ခြန္း၌ အေလးအနက္ ထည့္သြင္း
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ဝင္တိုက္တာ ပါကစၥတန္ကို အသိမေပးခဲ့

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ဘင္လာဒင္ရွိေနတာ ပါကစၥတန္မသိဘူးလား
ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ အိမ္ဝင္းထဲက ထြက္လာတဲ့ ပါကစၥတန္ တပ္ဖြဲ့ေတြဘင္လာဒင္ကို အေမရိကန္တပ္ေတြက ရွာေနတာ ဆယ္နွစ္ရွိခဲ့ပါျပီ။ ေတြ့မဲ့ ေတြ့ေတာ့လဲ နယ္စပ္က ေတာင္တန္းေတြမွာ
မဟုတ္ပဲ ပါကစၥတန္က ျမို့ျကီးတျမို့ထဲမွာ ျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။ ျမို့ေတာင္မွ စစ္တပ္ျမို့တျမို့ထဲမွာ အိမ္အျကီးျကီးနဲ့ ေနေနတာပါ။ပါကစၥတန္ဖက္ကေတာ့ အေမရိကန္ေတြက သူတို့ကို မေျပာပဲ
ဝင္တိုက္တာ ေျကနပ္မွာ မဟုတ္ေပမဲ့ အေမရိကန္ေတြက ဒီစစ္ဆင္ေရးကို ပါကစၥတန္ဖက္ကို ျကိုတင္ အသိမေပးခဲ့ဘူးဆိုတဲ့ အခ်က္ကပဲ ပါကစၥတန္ကို အျပည့္အဝ ယံုျကည္မႈ
မရွိဘူးဆိုတာ ျပေနတာပဲလို့လဲ သံုးသပ္ျကပါတယ္။ဒါေျကာင့္ပဲ အေမရိကန္ေတြက ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ အိမ္ကို ဝင္တိုက္ျပီး သူ့အေလာင္းကို သယ္ျပီး ဟယ္လီေကာ့ပတာနဲ့ ျပန္ထြက္လာေတာ့
ပါကစၥတန္ တပ္ေတြနဲ့ လမ္းမွာ တိုးျပီး တိုက္ပြဲ ျဖစ္မွာ စိုးရိမ္ေနခဲ့တယ္၊ ပါကစၥတန္ ေလေျကာင္းပိုင္နက္ အျပင္ကို အျမန္ဆံုးေရာက္ေအာင္ ပ်ံသန္းခဲ့တယ္လို့ အစိုးရရဲ့ လံုျခံုေရး
အျကံေပးပုဂၢိုလ္က ေျပာခဲ့တာပါ။ပါကစၥတန္ အစိုးရဖက္ကေတာ့ ဘင္လာဒင္ ေသသြားတဲ့ သတင္းကို အျကမ္းဖက္မႈမွာ အားေလ်ာ့သြားမဲ့ အလားအလာ ျဖစ္တဲ့ အေျကာင္း သတိနဲ့ ျကိုဆိုတဲ့
ေျကာျငာခ်က္ ထုတ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ဘင္လာဒင္ သူတို့နိုင္ငံထဲမွာ ရွိမေနေတာ့ေလာက္ပါဘူး၊ ရွိရင္ သိရမွာေပါ့လို့ ပါကစၥတန္ အစိုးရက ေျပာေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ပါကစၥတန္
ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးအဖြဲ့ အိုင္အက္စ္အိုင္ထဲမွာလဲ ဘင္လာဒင္နဲ့ တျခား အယ္လ္ခိုင္းဒါး အဖြဲ့ဝင္ေတြ၊ တာလီဘန္ေတြကို အကူအညီေပးေနသူေတြ ရွိတယ္ဆိုတာ အမ်ားက သံသယ
ရွိျကပါတယ္။အခုပဲျကည့္ပါ၊ ဘင္လာဒင္ အိမ္ေဆာက္ေနတဲ့ ေနရာက ပါကစၥတန္ရဲ့ အျကီးဆံုး စစ္တကၠသိုလ္ျကီးတခုရွိတဲ့ ေနရာနဲ့ နီးနီးေလးပါ၊ ေနာက္ျပီး ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ အိမ္ျကီးက
သံုးထပ္ရွိတယ္၊ ၁၈ ေပေလာက္ျမင့္တဲ့ အုတ္တံတိုင္းျကီး ကာထားတယ္၊ နံရံပတ္လည္ကိုလဲ သံဆူးျကိုးနဲ့ ကာထားတယ္၊ လံုျခံုေရး ကင္မရာေတြလဲ တပ္ထားတယ္ဆိုေတာ့၊ အနားက
အေဆာက္အဦေတြနဲ့ ယွဉ္ရင္ ဒီေလာက္ ထူးထူးျခားျခား ထင္ရွားေနတဲ့ ေခတ္မီ အေဆာက္အဦကို ဘယ္သူ ေဆာက္ေပးခဲ့သလဲ၊ ျမို့ခံ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြက ဒီမွာ ဘယ္သူေနေနတယ္ဆိုတာ
မသိခဲ့ဘူးလား၊ ေမးစရာေတြ အမ်ားျကီးပါ၊လန္ဒန္က ပါကစၥတန္ ေကာ္မရွင္နာမင္းျကီး ဝါဂ်စ္ ဟမ္ဆူလ္ ဟာဆန္ကေတာ့ ဘင္လာဒင္ဟာ တေနရာထဲမွာ မေနပဲ ေလွ်ာက္သြားေနလို့
ေျခရာခံလို့ မလြယ္ခဲ့တာပါလို့ ေျပာပါတယ္။"ဒီအခ်ိန္မွာ သူက လူလဲ သိတ္မရႈတ္တဲ့ အျကမ္းဖက္သမားေတြ ရွိတဲ့ေနရာလို့ သံသယမရွိနိုင္တဲ့ ေနရာတခုကို ေရြးရင္း ဒီ အဘာတာဘတ္ျမို့ကို
ေရာက္လာတာ ထင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီျမို့မွာက သူနဲ့ အလံုးအရပ္တူသူ၊ မုတ္ဆိတ္ရွည္ရွိသူေတြ မ်ားေတာ့ လူခ်င္းေရာသြားနိုင္ပါတယ္၊ ေနာက္ျပီး ဒီကေနေစာင့္ျပီး သူ့ကို ကူညီေပးတဲ့ သူလဲ
ရွိနိုင္တာေပါ့ေလ" လို့ ဆိုပါတယ္။အဲဒီျမို့မွာ ေနျကသူေတြကလဲ သူတို့ဆီမွာ ဘင္လာဒင္ေရာက္ေနတာကို မသိျကဘူးလို့ ေျပာျကပါတယ္။

ဘင္လာဒင္ဟာ အာဖဂန္နစၥတန္ဖက္က ပါကစၥတန္ထဲ ဝင္လာခဲ့


ဘင္လာဒင္ ဒီ ေလာက္ျကာေအာင္ လြတ္ေနတာ၊ ပုန္းေနနိုင္ေအာင္ ပါကစၥတန္ အစိုးရနဲ့ ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးထဲက လူေတြ ကူညီေပးေနခဲ့သလားဆိုတာကို အေမရိကန္အစိုးရကလဲ
သိခ်င္ေနပါတယ္။ အခုေနာက္ဆံုး အေျခအေနမွာလဲ ပါကစၥတန္ဖက္က ဘယ္ေလာက္ သိထားသလဲ ဆိုတာကို အေမရိကန္ အရာရွိေတြက စံုစမ္းေနပါတယ္။ဘင္လာဒင္ဟာ သူတို့
မ်က္ေစ့ေအာက္နားေလးမွာ ရွိေနတာကို မသိဘူးဆိုရင္ ပါကစၥတန္ အစိုးရအတြက္ အျကီးအက်ယ္ အရွက္ကြဲစရာ ျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္၊ တကယ္လို့ သိရက္နဲ့ ဒီသတင္းကို ထိန္ခ်န္ထားတယ္
ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ အေမရိကန္နဲ့ ပါကစၥတန္ ဆက္ဆံေရးမွာ အျကီးအက်ယ္ အဖုအထစ္ျကီး ျဖစ္သြားေတာ့မွာ ေသခ်ာတယ္လို့ ဘီဘီစီရဲ့ သံုးသပ္သူေတြက ေထာက္ျပေနျကပါတယ္။
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ဘင္လ ာဒင္က ို ဝင္တိုက ္တ ာ ပါကစၥတန္က ို အသိမေပးခဲ့

အေမရိကန္တပ္ေတြ ဝင္စီးခဲ့တဲ့ ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ ေနအိမ္

အယ္လခိုင္းဒါး အဖြဲ့ကို ထူေထာင္ခဲ့သူ အေမရိကန္ေတြက အလိုအရွိဆံုး နံပတ္တစ္ရန္သူ ျဖစ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ဘင္လာဒင္ကို ပါကစၥတန္ နိုင္ငံထဲက အာဘာတာဘတ္ ျမို့မွာ သူပုန္းခိုေနတဲ့ အိမ္ကို
အေမရိကန္ အထူးတပ္ေတြက ေဒသစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ တနလၤ ာေန့ မနက္အေစာျကီး တစ္နာရီေလာက္မွာ ဝင္တိုက္ျပီး ဘင္လာဒင္ကို သတ္ျဖတ္ လိုက္ျကပါတယ္။

ဒီစစ္ဆင္ေရးကို အာဖဂန္နစၥတန္မွာ အေျခစိုက္တဲ့ အေမရိကန္ တပ္ေတြထဲက ေနဗီဆီးလ္လို့ေခၚတဲ့ ကြန္မန္ဒို တပ္ဖြဲ့ဝင္ ၃၀ ေလာက္က ဘလက္ေဟာ့ခ္ ရဟတ္ယာဉ္ ၂ စီးနဲ့ သြားျပီး

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ျပုလုပ္ခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အဲဒီအိမ္မွာ အိုဆာမာဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ လူရင္းလူယံုတေယာက္ အဝင္အထြက္ ရွိေနတာကို ျပီးခဲ့တဲ့ နွစ္ ျသဂုတ္လေလာက္ကတဲ က ေျခရာခံမိျပီး ေနာက္ဆံုး ဘင္လာဒင္လဲ
အတူရွိေနနိုင္တယ္လို့ ေထာက္လွမ္းေရး အခ်က္အလက္ေတြ က ဆံုးျဖတ္ျပီး ဝင္တိုက္ဖို့ ကို ေသာျကာေန့က သမၼတ အိုဘားမားက အမိန့္ေပးခဲ့တာပါ။

ဒီလို ဝင္တိုက္မဲ့ ကိစၥကို အေမရိကန္ေတြက ပါကစၥတန္ကို အသိမေပးခဲ့ဘူးလို့ အစိုးရရဲ့ အျကမ္းဖက္မႈ တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရး အျကံေပးပုဂၢိုလ္ John Brennen က တနလၤ ာေန့ ညေနက
သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲမွာ ေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။

အေမရိကန္တပ္ဖြဲ့ေတြ အားလံုး ပါကစၥတန္ေလပိုင္နက္ အျပင္ေရာက္မွ လွမ္းျပီး အသိေပးခဲ့တယ္၊ ဒါေျကာင့္ စစ္ဆင္ေရးလုပ္ေနတုန္း ပါကစၥတန္ဖက္က မသိပဲနဲ့ ဝင္တိုက္မွာကို
စိုးရိမ္ေနခဲ့ရတယ္လို့လဲ သူကဆိုပါတယ္။

အမ်ိုး သမီး တေယာက္က ို လူသ ားဒိုင ္း လိုသ ံုး

အေမရိကန္ တပ္ေတြဟာ အေဆာက္အဦေခါင္မိုးေပၚကို ျကိုးနဲ့ဆင္းျပီးမွ အိမ္ထဲဝင္ျပီး ဘင္လာဒင္ကို ရွာေဖြခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အထဲက ျပန္ပစ္ခတ္မႈေတြရွိခဲ့လို့ အျပန္အလွန္ တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္ျပီး
ဘင္လာဒင္က သူ့နဲ့ အတူရွိေနတဲ့ သူ့ရဲ့ ဇနီးတေယာက္လို့ ယူဆရသူကို လူသားဒိုင္းအျဖစ္လဲ သံုးခဲ့ေသးတယ္လို့ မစၥတာ ဘရင္နန္ကေျပာပါတယ္။

အဲဒီအမ်ိုးသမီးဟာ ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ ေရွ့ကကာေနလို့ ပစ္ရေတာ့ သူလဲ ေသခဲ့တယ္လို့ ဆိုပါတယ္၊ ဘင္လာဒင္ကေတာ့ ေခါင္းမွာ ၂ ခ်က္ပစ္ခံရျပီး ေသခဲ့တယ္လို့ သိရပါတယ္။

အိမ္ထဲမွာ ရွိေနတဲ့ ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ သားတေယာက္၊ ဇနီးနဲ့ သူ့ရဲ့ လူယံု တေယာက္လဲ ေသဆံုးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အေမရိကန္အရာရွိ ဂြ်န္ဘရင္နန္ကေတာ့ ဘင္လာဒင္ကို အရွင္ရရင္ အရွင္ဖမ္းခဲ့ဖို့
အစီအစဉ္ရွိခဲ့ပါတယ္လို့ ဆိုပါတယ္။

အိပ္ယာေဘးမွာ ေသြးကြက္ေတြနဲ့ ေတြ့ရတဲ့ အခန္း

ေနာက္ပိုင္းထြက္လာတဲ့ ဘင္လာဒင္ေနသြားတယ္ဆိုတဲ့ အိမ္ခန္းကို ျပတဲ့ ပံုေတြထဲမွာေတာ့ ျပန့္က်ဲေနတဲ့ အိပ္ယာေဘးမွာ ေသြးကြက္ေတြကို ေတြ့ရပါတယ္။ နံရံတခုမွာ လဲ
အေပါက္ျကီးေတြ့ရလို့ အေမရိကန္တပ္ေတြက လက္နက္ျကီးနဲ့ ပစ္ခြင္းခဲ့ပံုရပါတယ္။

စစ္ဆင္ေရးဟာ စုစုေပါင္း မိနစ္ေလးဆယ္ပဲ ျကာတယ္လို့ဆိုပါတယ္။ အေမရိကန္ ရဟတ္ယာဉ္တစင္းက ပ်က္သြားလို့ ဖ်က္ဆီးျပီး ထားခဲ့တယ္လို့လဲ သိရပါတယ္။ ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့
အေလာင္းကို သယ္လာတဲ့ ရဟတ္ယာဉ္ဟာ အာဖဂန္နစၥတန္ကို ျပန္လာျပီး ဘင္လာဒင္ ဟုတ္ေျကာင္း DNA နဲ့ စစ္ေဆးခဲ့ပါတယ္။

အေလာင္းကို ျပန္ယူမလားလို့ ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ မိခင္နိုင္ငံ ျဖစ္တဲ့ ေဆာ္ဒီအာေရဗ် ကို ေမးခဲ့ေပမဲ့ ေဆာ္ဒီဖက္က ျငင္းခဲ့တယ္လို့ တခ်ို့သတင္းေတြကေျပာပါတယ္။

ေရခ်သျဂိုဟ ္

ဒါေျကာင့္ အေလာင္းကို အာေရဗ်ပင္လယ္ထဲက အေမရိကန္ စစ္သဘၤ ောျကီး USS Carl Vincent ဆီကို သယ္လာျပီး အဲဒီမွာ အစၥလာမ္ထံုးစံနဲ့ အညီ ၂၄ နာရီအတြင္း သျဂိုဟ္ရမယ္ဆိုတဲ့
အတိုင္း ေနာက္ဆံုး လုပ္စရာရွိတာေတြ လုပ္ျပီးမွ ေရထဲခ်လိုက္တယ္လို့ ဂြ်န္ဘရန္နင္က ေျပာပါတယ္။

ေရထဲခ်လိုက္တဲ့ အေျကာင္းတေျကာင္းကလဲ ေျမေပၚမွာ ျမုပ္ခဲ့ရင္ အဲဒီေနရာကို အယ္လခိုင္းဒါးအဖြဲ့ေတြက စုေဝးရာေနရာတခုအျဖစ္ အသံုးခ်လာမွာကို စိုးရိမ္ျကလို့ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အခုအထိ ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ အေလာင္းကို ဘယ္သူမွာ မေတြ့ရေသးလို့ သူေသတာတကယ္မွ ဟုတ္ရဲ့လားလို့ သံသယရွိသူေတြလဲ အမ်ားပါ၊ အေမရိကန္ လံုျခံုေရး အျကံေပး
ဂြ်န္ဘရန္နင္ကေတာ့ သူတို့ ဓာတ္ပံုေတြကိုလဲ ထုတ္ျပန္ေပးဖို့ စဉ္းစားေနတယ္လို့ ဆိုပါတယ္။

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Subject: ဘင္လာဒင္ကုိ ဘယ္လုိသတ္ခဲ့သလဲ ???
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ဘင္လာဒင္ကုိ ဘယ္လုိသတ္ခဲ့သလဲ ???

ေမွာင္မုိက္ေနတဲ့ညမွာ အေမရိကန္ ရဟတ္ယာဥ္ေတြဟာ နံရံၿမင့္ႀကီးေတြ


ကာရံထားတဲ့ေနရာတခုကုိ ခ်ဥ္းကပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အေႀကာင္းကေတာ့ ကမာၻ.အစုိးရြားဆုံး
အႀကမ္းဖက္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဘင္လာဒင္ကုိ ဖမ္းဖုိ႔ (၀ါ) သတ္ဖုိ႔ပါ။

ထုိသုိ႔ခ်ဥ္းကပ္ၿပီး မိနစ္ ၄၀ မၿပည့္ခင္မွာပဲ ဘင္လာဒင္ဟာ အေပါင္းအပါ ၄


ဦးနဲ႔အတူ ေသဆုံးခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ 2011 စက္တင္ဘာ 11 အေမရိကန္ ကုန္သြယ္ေရးအေဆာက္အအုံ
အႀကမ္းဖက္ တုိက္ခုိက္မႈေနာက္ပုိင္း လုိက္လံနိမ္ႏွင္းေနတဲ့

အယ္ေကးဒါးေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဘင္လာဒင္ကုိ သယ္ေဆာင္လာနိင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

သမၼတ အုိဘားမားက အိမ္ၿဖဴေတာ္မွ တနဂၤေႏြညမွာ ေအာင္ၿမင္စြာ ၀င္ဆီးနုိင္ခဲ့ေႀကာင္း


ေၿပာဆုိလုိက္ပါတယ္။ အစုိးရထိပ္တန္းအရာရွိမ်ားကလည္း ဘင္လာဒင္ပုန္းေနတယ္လုိ႔
လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၅ ႏွစ္ကတည္း ယူဆထားတဲ့ေနရာကုိ ၀င္ေရာက္တုိက္ခုိက္ပုံမ်ားကုိ ထပ္မံ
ထုတ္ၿပန္လုိက္ႀကပါတယ္။

ေနရာက အက္ေဘာ့တာဘက္ဒ္ ( Abbottabad)မွာပါ။ ပါကစၥတန္နုိင္ငံ ၿမဳိ.ေတာ္


အစၥလမ္မာဘတ္ ၿမဳိ.နဲ႔ ၃၁ မုိင္အကြာမွာရွိပါတယ္။ ေတာင္ကုန္းေတြထူ
ထပ္တဲ့ေနရာတခုၿဖစ္ၿပီး လူေတြသိပ္မေနတဲ့ေနရာတခုပါ။ ေနထုိင္သူအမ်ားစုဟာ
စစ္မႈထမ္းေတြသာၿဖစ္ႀကပါတယ္။

အေမရိကန္ ေရတပ္မေတာ္သာ မပါ၀င္ခဲ့ရင္ ဒီမစ္ရွင္ဟာ

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ေအာင္ၿမင္နုိင္မွာမဟုတ္ဘူးလုိ႔

လည္း ကာကြယ္ေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အႀကီးတန္းအရာရွိေတြက


ဆုိပါတယ္။

ႏွစ္အတန္ႀကာ ေထာက္လွမ္းမႈေတြ ုလုပ္ၿပီးေနာက္ ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ အက္ေဘာ့တာဘက္ဒ္


(Abbottabad) ေနရာကုိ ေနာက္ေယာင္ခံနုိင္ခဲ့ႀကတယ္။

ေနရာက လမ္းကအလြန္ဆုိးၿပီး သြားဖုိ႔အလြန္ခက္တဲ့ သီးၿခားေနရာတခုၿဖစ္ေနခဲ့တယ္။


ႏွစ္အနည္းငယ္အတြင္း ေနထုိင္သူေတြ ပုိမုိမ်ားၿပားလာေပမဲ့လည္း လမ္းကဆုိးေနဆဲပဲ။
လမ္းကရွည္လွ်ား ၿပီး အလုံၿခဳံဆုံးေနရာလုိၿဖစ္ေနတယ္လုိ႔ ေၿပာၿပပါတယ္။

လႈပ္ရွားမႈကုိ ေသာႀကၤာေန႔မွာ စတင္ဖုိ႔ သမၼတအုိဘားမားက အမိန္႔ေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္။


ပထမတံတုိင္းက ၁၈ ေပၿမင့္ၿပီး ထိပ္မွာ သံဆူးႀကဳိးေတြတပ္ဆင္ထားၿပီး
လုံၿခဳံေရးဂိတ္ ၂ခုနဲ႔အတူ အတြင္းမွာလည္းအၿခားတံတုိင္းေတြရွိေသးတယ္ လုိ႔
အေမရိကန္ အႀကီးတန္း အရာရွိေတြကေၿပာပါတယ္။ ပင္မအေဆာက္အဦးက ၃ထပ္အေဆာက္အဦး
ၿဖစ္ၿပီး ၿခံ၀င္းအၿပင္ဘက္ကုိ မ်က္ႏွာမူထားတဲ့ ၿပဴတင္းေပါက္
အနည္းငယ္သာတပ္ဆင္ထားတယ္။ တတိယထပဟာ ၇ ေပရွိ သီးၿခားနံရံတခုရွိေနတယ္။

လအနည္းငယ္ ေထာက္လွမ္းမႈေတြ ုလုပ္ၿပီးေနာက္ ေသၿခာေဆာက္လုပ္ထားတဲ့


ဒီလုိအေဆာက္အဦးဟာ အဆင့္ၿမင့္ အႀကမ္းဖက္မႈ အတြက္သာ ၿဖစ္မယ္၊ ေသခ်ာတာကေတာ့
ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ေနရာပဲ ၿဖစ္မယ္လုိ႔ ဆုံးၿဖတ္ခဲ့ႀကပါတယ္။

အရာရွိေတြ သတိထားမိတာက တယ္လီဖုန္းမရွိ အင္တာနက္လည္းမရွိဘူး၊


အၿခားေနထုိင္သူေတြလုိပဲ အမိႈက္မီးရႈိ.တာ ၊ ေစ်း၀ယ္ထြက္ တာေလာက္ပဲ
ရွိတယ္ဆုိတာပါပဲ။အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၁ သန္းမကတန္လိမ့္မယ္လုိ႔ခန္႔မွန္းႀကပါတယ္။

မစ္ရွင္ နာမည္ကုိ (the U.S. operation a surgical raid) လုိ႔ေခၚၿပီး


အဖြဲ.ငယ္အၿဖစ္သာ ဖြဲ.စည္းၿပီး ဆုံးရႈံးမႈနည္းပါးရန္ စီမံခဲ့ပါတယ္။
စတင္၀င္ေရာက္တုိက္ခုိက္စဥ္ ခုခံမႈနဲ႔ ရင္ဆုိင္ခဲ့ရၿပီး ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့လူ၃ဦးရဲ့
ၿပစ္ခတ္မႈနဲ႔ ရင္ဆုိင္ခဲ့ရတယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။

အဆုံးမွာေတာ့ လူသားဒုိင္း အၿဖစ္အသုံးၿပဳခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ အမ်ဳိးသမီးတဦး အပါအ၀င္


ၿခံ၀န္းထဲမွ တုိက္ခုိက္သူေလးဦးကုိ အေသၿပစ္သတ္နုိင္ခဲ့တယ္။ ဘင္လာဒင္ကုိေတာ့
ဦးေခါင္းကုိ မွန္ေအာင္ၿပစ္နုိင္ခဲ့တယ္။

၀င္ေရာက္တုိက္ခုိက္စဥ္ ရဟတ္ယာဥ္တစီး စက္ခ်ဳိ.ယြင္းလုိ႔


ပ်က္စီးခဲ့တာေလာက္ပဲရွိၿပီး အုိဘားမားနဲ႔ အႀကီးတန္း အရာရွိေတြကေတာ့
၄င္းတုိ႔ဘက္မွ ထိခုိက္ဒဏ္ရာ ရမႈမရွိခဲ့ဘူးလုိ႔ဆုိပါတယ္။

ဘင္လာဒင္ ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ ေသခ်ာေအာင္ နည္းလမ္းအေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား အသုံးၿပဳစစ္ေဆးခဲ့ၿပီး


ထုိအထဲမွ မ်က္ႏွာ အေနအထားကုိလည္း တုိက္ဆုိင္ စစ္ေဆးနုိင္ခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။

လုံၿခဳံေရးအႀကီးတန္း အရာရွိက ခႏၶာကုိယ္နဲ႔ မ်က္ႏွာဟာ တုိက္ဆုိင္ စစ္ေဆးနုိင္တဲ့


အေနအထားရရွိခဲ့တာေႀကာင့္ပါလုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။

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ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ ရုပ္အေလာင္းကုိ ပင္လယ္ေရမ်က္ႏွာၿပင္ေအာက္မွာ အစၥလာမ္ ထုံစံအရ


သၿဂၤိလ္ၿပီးၿပီလုိ႔ ေၿပာပါတယ္။

ဘင္လာဒင္ရွိနုိင္မည့္ေနရာကုိ စုံစမ္းဖုိ႔ 2011 အစပုိင္းမွာ စတင္ခဲ့ၿပီး


ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ လလယ္မွာ ေနရာအတိအက် အေထာက္အထားေတြကုိ အတည္ၿပဳနုိင္ခဲ့ႀကပါတယ္။

အစီအစဥ္ေတြ တုိးၿမွင့္ လုပ္ေဆာင္နုိင္ဖုိ႔အတြက္ အုိဘားမားကုိေစာင့္ေနခဲ့ရပါတယ္။


ဘာလုိ႔လည္းဆုိေတာ့ အုိဘားမားက ၅နုိင္ငံ အမ်ဳိးသားလုံၿခဳံေရးေကာင္စီ
အစည္းအေ၀းကုိ မတ္လလယ္မွ ဧၿပီလကုန္ထိ တက္ေရာက္ေနခဲ့ရလုိ႔ပါ။

အစည္းအေ၀းက 28.04.2011 ေန႔မွာၿပီးခဲ့လုိ႔ ေနာက္တေန႔ 29.04.2011 ေန႔ကမွ


မစ္ရွင္အတြက္ အမိန္႔ထုတ္နိုင္ခဲ့တယ္။

အဓိကေသာ့ခ်က္ကေတာ့ ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ လူယုံတေယာက္နဲ႔ပါတ္သက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့


၂ႏွစ္က ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးေတြဟာ ထုိလူယုံနဲ႔သူ႔ညီ ေနရာကုိေၿခရာခံနုိင္ခဲ့ၿပီး 2010
ႀသဂုတ္လေရာက္မွ အက္ေဘာ့တာဘက္ဒ္ (Abbottabad) ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ေနရာကုိ
ရွာေဖြနုိင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

အေမရိကန္ အႀကီးတန္းအရာရွိတေယာက္က အဲ့ဒီ ညီအကုိ ေနတဲ့ ေနရာကုိေတြ.ေတာ့


ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ႔ ေတာ္ေတာ္ကုိ အံႀသသြားတယ္၊ အရမ္းသီးၿခားၿဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ၿခံ၀န္းႀကီးပဲ။
ၿခံ၀န္းႀကီးက ေၿမၿပင္က်ယ္ႀကီးမွာ

ေဆာက္ထားၿပီး အိမ္က ထုိေဒသကအရပ္သားေတြ ေနအိမ္ထက္ ၈ဆေလာက္


ႀကီးတယ္ဗ်ာလုိ႔ဆုိပါတယ္။

ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးဆန္းစစ္မႈက ဒီလုိ တမင္ဒီဇုိင္းဆြဲထားဟာ


အလြန္ထူဆန္းတဲ့လက္ခဏာရွိသူတဦးဦး ေနဖုိ႔ပဲၿဖစ္နုိင္တယ္လုိ႔ မွတ္ခ်က္ခ်ခဲ့တယ္။
ကြ်မ္းက်င္သူေတြရဲ့ ဘင္လာဒင္ရဲ့ေနရာလုိ႔ပဲ
ယူဆမႈေတြနဲ႔လည္းတထပ္တည္းၿဖစ္ေနခဲ့ပါတယ္။

လုံၿခဳံေရးေႀကာင့္ မစ္ရွင္ မစခင္ ပါကစ္စတန္အပါအ၀င္ ဘယ္နုိင္ငံကုိမွ


အသိမေပးခဲ့ဘူး၊ အဖြဲ.ငယ္ေလးနဲ႔ပဲ လႈပ္ရွားခဲ့ၿပီး အေမရိကန္ အစုိးရပုိင္း
အရာရွိေတြေလာက္သာ ႀကဳိတင္သိရွိခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။

ဘယ္လုိပဲၿဖစ္ၿဖစ္ ပါကစ္စတန္ ေထာက္လွမ္းေရး အႀကီးတန္းအရာရွိကေတာ့


ပါကစ္စတန္ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးေတြလည္း ထုိေနရာ တ၀ုိက္မွာ ရွိေနခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။
ရုတ္တရက္ ေၿဖရွင္းဖုိ႔ နည္းလမ္းမရွိ ၿဖစ္ေနေသးလုိ႔ပါလုိ.ဆုိပါတယ္။

CNN, How U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden ကို ၿပန္ဆုိပါသည္။

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aye thu <ayekyawthu2000@yahoo.com.sg> Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:27 PM
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မူဆလင္ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ ဘင္လာဒင္ အေပၚ


ေထာက္ခံမွႈ က်ဆင္း

အေမရိကန္ အထူးတပ္ဖြဲ႔က အိုစမာ ဘင္လာဒင္ကို ပါကစၥတန္မွာ သတ္ပစ္ႏိုင္ခဲ႔မွႈအေပၚ အေမရိကန္မ်ား ဂုဏ္ယူ ၀မ္းသာမဆံုး


ျဖစ္ေနခ်ိန္တြင္ ပါလက္စတို္င္း ေဒသနဲ႔ ကာတာႏိုင္ငံတို႔မွာ ဘင္လာဒင္

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သတ္ျဖတ္မွႈအေပၚ ဆန္႔က်င္ ဆႏၵမွႈမ်ား ရွိခဲ႔သည္။

သို႔ေသာ္ အေမရိကန္တို႔ အမုန္းဆံုး အလိုရွိဆံုး၊ ကမၻာ႔အဆိုးရြားဆံုး အစြန္းေရာက္ အစၥလာမ္ အၾကမ္းဖက္ေခါင္းေဆာင္


ဘင္လာဒင္ကို မူဆလင္ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ပင္ လူၾကိဳက္မ်ားမွႈ က်ဆင္းေနသည္ဟု စစ္တမ္းတစ္ခုက ေဖာ္ျပသည္။

၀ါရွင္တန္အေျခစိုက္ လြတ္လပ္တဲ႔ သုေတသနအဖြဲ႔တစ္ခုျဖစ္တဲ႔ Pew Research Center ရဲ႕ အိုစမာ မေသခင္ ေနာက္ဆံုး ျပဳလုပ္တဲ႔
စစ္တမ္းအရ ‘အယ္လ္ကိုင္ဒါ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ဟာ ကမၻာ႔အေရး အတြက္ မွန္ကန္တဲ႔ အရာေတြ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနတယ္လို႔
သင္ယံုၾကည္ပါသလား’ ဆိုတဲ႔ ေမးခြန္းအေပၚ ပါလက္စတိုင္းေတြရဲ႕ တံု႔ျပန္ခ်က္မွာ သံုးပံုတစ္ပံုကသာ ယံုၾကည္ေထာက္ခံ သည္ဟု
ေျဖၾကသည္။ ၂၀၀၃ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ၄င္းေမးခြန္းအေပၚ ပါလက္စတိုင္း ၇၀ ရာခိုင္ႏွႈန္းအထိ ေထာက္ခံခဲ႔ၾကျပီး၊ ယခု အမ်ားၾကီး
က်ဆင္းသြားခဲ႔သည္။

အလားတူ ႏိုက္ဂ်ီးရီးယား၊ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား၊ အီဂ်စ္၊ ပါကစၥတန္၊ ေဂ်ာ္ဒန္၊ တူရကီ၊ လက္ဘႏြန္ မူဆလင္ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားတြင္လည္း အိုစမာ
ဘင္လာဒင္ အေပၚ ေထာက္ခံမွႈ က်ဆင္းသြားခဲ႔သည္။ ထိ္ုသို႔ လူထု သေဘာထားအျမင္ ေျပာင္းလဲသြားရျခင္း အဓိက အေၾကာင္းမွာ
ဘာလီကြ်န္း၊ ေဂ်ာ္ဒန္၊ အီရတ္ စတဲ႔ ေနရာမ်ားတြင္ အယ္လ္ကိုင္ဒါမ်ားရဲ႕ ဆိုးရြားတဲ႔ ေဖာက္ခြဲမွႈမ်ား၊ အၾကမ္းဖက္မွႈမ်ားေၾကာင္႔
ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ေဖာ္ျပသည္။

၂၀၁၁ အတြက္ စစ္တမ္းကို Pew Research Center က ဆက္လက္ ေကာက္ခံလ်က္ ရွိျပီး ဘင္လာဒင္ အေပၚ လူၾကိဳက္မ်ားမွႈ
က်ဆင္းဖို႔ ရွိေနသည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။

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ဘင္လာဒင္ ရွပ္အကၤ်ီကို ၂၀၀၇ ဇူလိုင္ ဘန္ေကာက္ဆႏၵျပသူ အခ်ဳိ႕၀တ္ဆင္ခဲ႔ျပီး၊ အင္ဒိုနီးရွွား ဂ်ာကာတာတြင္လည္း အစြန္းေရာက္


အုပ္စုကလည္း မခြ်တ္တမ္း ၀တ္ခဲ႔သည္။

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၂၀၀၂ တြင္ ပါကစၥတန္မွ အယ္လ္ကိုင္ဒါ တစ္ဦး ဘင္လာဒင္ကို ကစ္ ေပးေနစဥ္။

၂၀၀၃ မတ္လ အေမရိကန္ သမၼတ ေဂ်ာ႔ဘုရွ္ အီရတ္ကို စတင္၀င္ေရာက္ တုိက္ခိုက္ေနခ်ိန္၊ ဘရာဇီး ေဆာေပၚလိုျမိဳ႕မွ

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ေစ်းသည္တစ္ဦး ဘင္လာဒင္နဲ႔ ဆဒမ္ဟူစိန္ ကို ေထာက္ခံတဲ႔ စတစ္ကာမ်ား ေရာင္းခ် ေနစဥ္။

၂၀၀၃ ခုႏွစ္ ပါကစၥတန္ လမ္းေဘး အေရာင္းဆိုင္တစ္ခုမွ ဘင္လာဒင္ ပံုမ်ား လူငယ္မ်ား စိတ္၀င္တစား ျဖစ္ေနစဥ္။

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ဘန္ေကာက္ ေစ်းသည္တစ္ဦး ဘင္လာဒင္ မ်က္ႏွာဖံုး ပြဲေစ်းမွာ ေရာင္းေနစဥ္။

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၂၀၀၄ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံ Guanzhou ျပည္နယ္မွ ဘင္လာဒင္ ပံုတစ္ခု။

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ပါကစၥတန္လမ္းေဘးမွ ဘင္လာဒင္ နံရံကပ္ပိုစတာ အေရာင္းဆိုင္။

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ပါကစၥတန္မွ ဘင္လာဒင္တံဆိပ္ ေရေမႊး။

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၂၀၀၃ ခုႏွစ္ ဩဂုတ္လ ဘန္ေကာက္ လမ္းေဘးေစ်းသည္တစ္ဦး ရဲ႕ တီရွပ္။

၂၀၀၃ ခုႏွစ္ ထိုင္းေတာင္ပိုင္း မူဆလင္တစ္ဦးရဲ႕ လက္ကုန္းဖုန္းႏွင္႔ အာရဗီဘာသာႏွင္႔ ၄င္းရဲ႕နာမည္။

ေမာကၡ ႏိုင္ငံတကာသတင္း

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Osama bin Laden


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Osama" and "bin Laden" redirect here. For other uses, see Osama (disambiguation) and bin Laden (disambiguation).
This article is about a person who has recently died. Some information, such as that pertaining to the circumstances of the person's death and surrounding
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Osama bin Laden
‫أﺳﺎﻣﺔ ﺑﻦ ﻻدن‬
March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011 (aged 54)

Bin Laden in 1997

Place of birth Riyadh, Saudi Arabia


Abbottabad, Pakistan 34°10′09″N 73°14′33″E /
34.16928°N 73.24252°E (http://toolserver.org
Place of death /~geohack
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params=34.16928_N_73.24252_E_type:event)
Resting place North Arabian Sea
Allegiance Al-Qaeda
Service/branch Sunni Islam (Wahhabism)

Soviet war in Afghanistan


War on Terror:

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War in North-West Pakistan
Operation Geronimo

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden ( /oʊˈsɑːmə bɪn ˈlɑːdən/; Arabic: ‫أﺳﺎﻣﺔ ﺑﻦ ﻣﺤﻤﺪ ﺑﻦ ﻋﻮض ﺑﻦ ﻻدن‬, ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin) (March
10, 1957 – May 2, 2011)[1][2][3] was the founder of the al-Qaeda organization, responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other
mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family.

Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 US
embassy bombings.[4][5][6] From 2001 to 2011 bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, which has resulted in a total of between 80,000 and 1.2 million
civilian deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia between 2001 and 2007.

On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a secured private residential-compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs in a covert operation
authorized by the US President Barack Obama.

Contents

1 Name
2 Childhood, education and personal life
3 Beliefs and ideology
4 Militant activity
4.1 Mujahideen in Afghanistan
4.2 Formation and structuring of Al-Qaeda
4.3 Sudan and return to Afghanistan
4.4 Early attacks and aid for attacks
4.5 Balkan wars
4.6 September 11 attacks
5 Criminal charges

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6 Attempted capture by the United States


6.1 Clinton administration
6.2 Bush administration
6.3 Obama administration
7 Activities and whereabouts after the September 11 attacks
8 Death
9 Pakistan's alleged role in hiding Osama bin Laden
10 See also
11 References
12 Further reading
13 External links

Name

There is no universally accepted standard for transliterating Arabic words and Arabic names into English;[7] bin Laden's name was most frequently rendered "Osama bin
Laden". The FBI and CIA, as well as other US Governmental agencies, have used either "Usama bin Laden" or "Usama bin Ladin", both of which may be abbreviated as
"UBL". Less common renderings include "Ussamah Bin Ladin" and "Oussama Ben Laden" in the French-language media. Other spellings include "Binladen" or, as used by
his family in the West, "Binladin". The spellings with o and e come from a Persian-influenced pronunciation also used in Afghanistan, where bin Laden spent many years.

The Arabic linguistic convention would be to refer to him as "Osama" or "Osama bin Laden", not "bin Laden" alone, as "bin Laden" is a patronymic, not a surname in the
Western manner. In its expanded form, it means "Osama, son of Mohammed, son of Awad, son of Laden".

Osama bin Laden's admirers have referred to him by several aliases and nicknames, including the "Emir" ( al-Amīr), the "Sheik" (aš-Šayḫ), "Abū 'Abd Allāh", "Sheik
al-Mujahid" (Šayḫ al-Muǧāhid), the "Lion Sheik",[8] and the "Director".[9]

Childhood, education and personal life

Main article: Childhood, education and personal life of Osama bin Laden
See also: Bin Laden family

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden ( /oʊˈsɑːmə bɪn moʊˈhɑːmɪd bɪn əˈwɑːd bɪn ˈlɑːdən/) was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,[10] a son of Mohammed bin
Awad bin Laden, a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family, [11] and Mohammed bin Laden's tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas (then called Alia
Ghanem).[12] In a 1998 interview, Osama gave his birth date as March 10, 1957.[13]

Osama's parents divorced soon after he was born; Osama's mother then married Mohammed al-Attas. The couple had four children, and Osama lived in the new
household with three half-brothers and one half-sister.[12]

Osama was raised as a devout Wahhabi Muslim.[14] From 1968 to 1976, he attended the élite secular Al-Thager Model School. [12][15] He studied economics and business
administration[16] at King Abdulaziz University. Some reports suggest he earned a degree in civil engineering in 1979, [17] or a degree in public administration in 1981.[18]
One source described him as "hard working",[19]; another said he left university during his third year without completing a college degree. [20] At university, Osama's main
interest was religion, where he was involved in both "interpreting the Quran and jihad" and charitable work. [21] He also wrote poetry.[22]

In 1974, at the age of 17, Osama married Najwa Ghanem at Latakia. [23] According to CNN national security correspondent David Ensore, as of 2002 Osama had married
four women and fathered roughly 25 or 26 children.[24] Other sources report that he has fathered anywhere from 12 to 24 children.[25]

Mohammed bin Laden was killed in 1967 in an airplane crash in Saudi Arabia when his American pilot misjudged a landing. [26] Osama's eldest half-brother, Salem bin
Laden, the subsequent head of the bin Laden family, was killed in 1988 near San Antonio, Texas in the United States, when he accidentally flew a plane into power lines.

The FBI described Osama as an adult as tall and thin, between 6'4" and 6'6" (193– 198 cm) in height and weighing about 165 pounds (75 kg). Interviewer Lawrence
Wright, on the other hand, describe him as quite slender, but not particularly tall.[27] Osama had an olive complexion and was left-handed, usually walking with a cane.
He wore a plain white turban and had stopped wearing the traditional Saudi male headdress. [28] Bin Laden was described as soft-spoken and mild mannered in
demeanor.[29]

Many of bin Laden's children went to Iran after the September 11 attacks and as of 2010 Iranian authorities reportedly continued to control their movement. [30]

Beliefs and ideology

Main article: Beliefs and ideology of Osama bin Laden

Osama believed that only the restoration of Sharia law would "set things right" in the Muslim world, and that alternatives such as "pan-Arabism, socialism, communism,
democracy" must be opposed.[31] This belief, in conjunction with violent jihad, has sometimes been called Qutbism after being promoted by Sayyid Qutb. [32] Osama
believed that Afghanistan, under the rule of Mullah Omar's Taliban, was "the only Islamic country" in the Muslim world. [33] Osama consistently dwelt on the need for
violent jihad to right what he believed were injustices against Muslims perpetrated by the United States and sometimes by other non-Muslim states, [34] the need to
eliminate the state of Israel, and the necessity of forcing the US to withdraw from the Middle East. He also called on Americans to "reject the immoral acts of fornication,
homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling, and usury," in an October 2002 letter.[35]

Osama's ideology included the idea that civilians, including women and children, are legitimate targets of jihad. [36][37] Osama was anti-Semitic, and delivered warnings

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against alleged Jewish conspiracies: "These Jews are masters of usury and leaders in treachery. They will leave you nothing, either in this world or the next." [38] Shia
Muslims have been listed along with "heretics, […] America, and Israel" as the four principal "enemies of Islam" at ideology classes of bin Laden's al-Qaeda
organization.[39]

In keeping with Wahhabi beliefs,[40] Osama opposed music on religious grounds,[41] and his attitude towards technology was mixed. He was interested in "earth-moving
machinery and genetic engineering of plants" on the one hand, but rejected "chilled water" on the other. [42]

His viewpoints and methods of achieving them had led to him being designated as a terrorist by scholars, [43][44] journalists from The New York Times,[45][46] the
BBC,[47] and Qatari news station Al Jazeera,[48] analysts such as Peter Bergen,[49] Michael Scheuer,[50] Marc Sageman,[51] and Bruce Hoffman[52][53] and he was
indicted on terrorism charges by law enforcement agencies in Madrid, New York City, and Tripoli. [54]

Osama's overall strategy against much larger enemies such as the Soviet Union and United States was to lure them into a long war of attrition in Muslim countries,
attracting large numbers of jihadists who would never surrender. He believed this would lead to economic collapse of the enemy nation. Al-Qaeda manuals clearly outline
this strategy. The Soviet Union collapsed following years of fighting in Afghanistan, and several prominent authors have stated that the United States was on the verge of
suffering the same fate, losing countless trillions of dollars to the ongoing conflict. In this sense, some have credited Osama as the one person who was successful in his
fight against both of the world superpowers.[55]

Militant activity

Main article: Militant activity of Osama bin Laden


See also: CIA-Osama bin Laden controversy

Mujahideen in Afghanistan

After leaving college in 1979, bin Laden arrived to Pakistan and joined Abdullah Azzam to take part in the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
[56][57]
During Operation Cyclone from 1979 to 1989, the United States provided financial aid and weapons to the mujahideen
leaders[58] through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Bin Laden met and built relations with Hamid Gul, who was a three star
general in the Pakistani army and head of the ISI agency. Although the United States provided the money and weapons, the training
of militant groups was entirely done by the Pakistani Armed Forces and the ISI.

By 1984, bin Laden and Azzam established Maktab al-Khadamat, which funneled money, arms and fighters from around the Arab
world into Afghanistan. Through al-Khadamat, bin Laden's inherited family fortune [59] paid for air tickets and accommodation, paid for Osama bin Laden with Pakistani
paperwork with Pakistani authorities and provided other such services for the jihadi fighters. Bin Laden established camps inside journalist Hamid Mir in 1997
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan and used it to train volunteer fighters against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. It was during
his time in Pakistan that he began wearing camouflage-print jackets and carrying a Russian-made assault rifle.

Formation and structuring of Al-Qaeda

Main article: Al-Qaeda

By 1988, bin Laden had split from Maktab al-Khidamat. While Azzam acted as support for Afghan fighters, bin Laden wanted a more military role. One of the main points
leading to the split and the creation of al-Qaeda was Azzam's insistence that Arab fighters be integrated among the Afghan fighting groups instead of forming a separate
fighting force.[60] Notes of a meeting of bin Laden and others on August 20, 1988, indicate al-Qaeda was a formal group by that time: "Basically an organized Islamic
faction, its goal is to lift the word of God, to make His religion victorious." A list of requirements for membership itemized the following: listening ability, good manners,
obedience, and making a pledge (bayat) to follow one's superiors.[61]

According to Wright, the group's real name wasn't used in public pronouncements because "its existence was still a closely held secret." [62] His research suggests that
al-Qaeda was formed at an August 11, 1988, meeting between "several senior leaders" of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Abdullah Azzam, and bin Laden, where it was agreed to
join bin Laden's money with the expertise of the Islamic Jihad organization and take up the jihadist cause elsewhere after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan.[63]
Following the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan in February 1989, Osama bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia in 1990 as a hero of jihad, who along with his
Arab legion "had brought down the mighty superpower" of the Soviet Union. [64]

The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait under Saddam Hussein on August 2, 1990 put the Saudi kingdom and the House of Saud at risk, with Iraqi forces on the Saudi border and
Saddam's appeal to pan-Arabism potentially inciting internal dissent. Bin Laden met with King Fahd, and Saudi Defense Minister Sultan, telling them not to depend on
non-Muslim assistance from the United States and others, offering to help defend Saudi Arabia with his mujahideen. Bin Laden's offer was rebuffed, and after the Saudi
monarchy invited the deployment of U.S. troops in Saudi territory,[65] Osama publicly denounced Saudi Arabia's dependence on the U.S. military. Osama believed the
presence of foreign troops in the "land of the two mosques" (Mecca and Medina) profaned sacred soil. Bin Laden's criticism of the Saudi monarchy led that government
to attempt to silence him.

Shortly after Saudi Arabia invited U.S. troops into Saudi Arabia, bin Laden turned his attention to attacks on the West. On November 8, 1990, the FBI raided the New
Jersey home of El Sayyid Nosair, an associate of al-Qaeda operative Ali Mohamed, discovering copious evidence of terrorist plots, including plans to blow up New York
City skyscrapers. This marked the earliest discovery of al-Qaeda terrorist plans outside of Muslim countries. [66] Nosair was eventually convicted in connection to the 1993
World Trade Center bombing, and later admitted guilt for the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York on November 5, 1990.

Bin Laden continued to speak publicly against the Saudi government for harboring American troops, for which the Saudis banished him. He went to live in exile in Sudan,
in 1992, in a deal brokered by Ali Mohamed.[67]

Sudan and return to Afghanistan

In Sudan, bin Laden established a new base for mujahideen operations in Khartoum. He continued his verbal assault on King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, and in response, on
March 5, 1994, Fahd sent an emissary to Sudan demanding bin Laden's passport. His family was persuaded to cut off his $7 million a year stipend. [68] By now bin Laden
was strongly associated with Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), which made up the core of al-Qaeda. In 1995 the EIJ attempted to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak. The attempt failed, and the EIJ was expelled from Sudan.

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As a result of his dealings in and advocacy of violent extremist jihad, Osama bin Laden lost his Saudi citizenship in 1994 and was disowned by his billionaire family. [69]

Sudan also began efforts to expel bin Laden. The 9/11 Commission Report states:

In late 1995, when Bin Laden was still in Sudan, the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learned that Sudanese officials were
discussing with the Saudi government the possibility of expelling Bin Laden. CIA paramilitary officer Billy Waugh tracked down Bin Ladin in the Sudan and
prepared an operation to apprehend him, but was denied authorization.[70] US Ambassador Timothy Carney encouraged the Sudanese to pursue this course.
The Saudis, however, did not want Bin Laden, giving as their reason their revocation of his citizenship. Sudan's minister of defense, Fatih Erwa, has claimed
that Sudan offered to hand Bin Laden over to the United States. The Commission has found no credible evidence that this was so. Ambassador Carney had
instructions only to push the Sudanese to expel Bin Laden. Ambassador Carney had no legal basis to ask for more from the Sudanese since, at the time, there
was no indictment outstanding.[71]

The 9/11 Commission Report further states:

In February 1996, Sudanese officials began approaching officials from the United States and other governments, asking what actions of theirs might ease
foreign pressure. In secret meetings with Saudi officials, Sudan offered to expel Bin Laden to Saudi Arabia and asked the Saudis to pardon him. US officials
became aware of these secret discussions, certainly by March. Saudi officials apparently wanted Bin Laden expelled from Sudan. They had already revoked his
citizenship, however, and would not tolerate his presence in their country. Also Bin Laden may have no longer felt safe in Sudan, where he had already
escaped at least one assassination attempt that he believed to have been the work of the Egyptian or Saudi regimes, or both.

In May 1996, under increasing pressure on Sudan, from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United States, bin Laden returned to Jalalabad, Afghanistan aboard a chartered
flight, and there forged a close relationship with Mullah Mohammed Omar. [72][73] When bin Laden left Sudan, he and his organization were significantly weakened,
despite his ambitions and organizational skills.[74] In Afghanistan, bin Laden and al-Qaeda raised money from "donors from the days of the Soviet jihad," and from the
Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to establish more training camps for Mujahideen fighters. [75]

Bin Laden effectively had hijacked Ariana Afghan Airlines, which ferried Islamic militants, arms, cash and opium through the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan as well as
provided false identifications to members of bin Laden's terrorist network.[76] Viktor Bout helped to run the airline, maintaining planes and loading cargo. Michael
Scheuer, head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, concluded that Ariana was being used as a "terrorist taxi service". [77]

Early attacks and aid for attacks

It is believed that the first bombing attack involving bin Laden was the December 29, 1992 bombing of the Gold Mihor Hotel in Aden in which two people were killed. [78]

It was after this bombing that al-Qaeda was reported to have developed its justification for the killing of innocent people. According to a fatwa issued by Mamdouh
Mahmud Salim, the killing of someone standing near the enemy is justified because any innocent bystander will find their proper reward in death, going to Jannah
(Paradise) if they were good Muslims and to Jahannam (hell) if they were bad or non-believers.[79] The fatwa was issued to al-Qaeda members but not the general
public.

In the 1990s bin Laden's al-Qaeda assisted jihadis financially and sometimes militarily in Algeria, Egypt and Afghanistan. In 1992 or 1993 bin Laden sent an emissary, Qari
el-Said, with $40,000 to Algeria to aid the Islamists and urge war rather than negotiation with the government. Their advice was heeded but the war that followed killed
150,000–200,000 Algerians and ended with Islamist surrender to the government.

Bin Laden funded the Luxor massacre of November 17, 1997, [80][81][82] which killed 62 civilians, but outraged the Egyptian public. In mid-1997, the Northern Alliance
threatened to overrun Jalalabad, causing bin Laden to abandon his Nazim Jihad compound and move his operations to Tarnak Farms in the south. [83]

Another successful attack was carried out in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan. Bin Laden helped cement his alliance with the Taliban by sending several hundreds
of Afghan Arab fighters along to help the Taliban kill between five and six thousand Hazaras overrunning the city. [84]

In February 1998, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri co-signed a fatwa in the name of the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders which
declared the killing of North Americans and their allies an "individual duty for every Muslim" to "liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and the holy mosque [in
Mecca] from their grip".[85][86] At the public announcement of the fatwa bin Laden announced that North Americans are "very easy targets". He told the attending
journalists, "You will see the results of this in a very short time." [87]

In December 1998, the Director of Central Intelligence Counterterrorist Center reported to President Bill Clinton that al-Qaeda was preparing for attacks in the USA,
including the training of personnel to hijack aircraft.[88]

Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri organized an al-Qaeda congress on June 24, 1998. [89]

The 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998, in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb
explosions at the United States embassies in the major East African cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The attacks were linked to local members of
the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, brought Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to the attention of the US public for the first time, and resulted in the U.S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation placing bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted list.

At the end of 2000, Richard Clarke revealed that Islamic militants headed by bin Laden had planned a triple attack on January 3, 2000 which would have included
bombings in Jordan of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Amman and tourists at Mount Nebo and a site on the Jordan River, the sinking of the destroyer USS The Sullivans in
Yemen, as well as an attack on a target within the United States. The plan was foiled by the arrest of the Jordanian terrorist cell, the sinking of the explosive-filled skiff
intended to target the destroyer, and the arrest of Ahmed Ressam.[90]

Balkan wars

See also: Bosnian mujahideen

A former U.S. State Department official in October 2001 described Bosnia and Herzegovina as a safe haven for terrorists, after it was revealed that militant elements of
the former Sarajevo government were protecting extremists, some with ties to Osama bin Laden. [91] In 1997, Rzeczpospolita , one of the largest Polish daily newspapers,
reported that intelligence services of the Nordic-Polish SFOR Brigade suspected that a center for training terrorists from Islamic countries was located in the Bocina Donja
village near Maglaj in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992, hundreds of volunteers joined an "all-mujahedeen unit" called El Moujahed in an abandoned hillside factory, a
compound with a hospital and prayer hall.

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According to Middle East intelligence reports, bin Laden financed small convoys of recruits from the Arab world through his businesses in Sudan. Among them was Karim
Said Atmani who was identified by authorities as the document forger for a group of Algerians accused of plotting the bombings in the USA. [92] He is a former roommate
of Ahmed Ressam, the man arrested at the Canadian-U.S. border in mid-December 1999 with a car full of nitroglycerin and bomb-making materials. [93][94] He was
convicted of colluding with Osama bin Laden by a French court.[95]

A Bosnian government search of passport and residency records, conducted at the urging of the United States, revealed other former mujahideen who were linked to the
same Algerian group or to other groups of suspected terrorists, and had lived in the area 60 miles (97 km) north of Sarajevo, the capital, in the past few years. Khalil
al-Deek, was arrested in Jordan in late December 1999 on suspicion of involvement in a plot to blow up tourist sites; a second man with Bosnian citizenship, Hamid Aich,
lived in Canada at the same time as Atmani and worked for a charity associated with Osama bin Laden. In its June 26, 1997 Report on the bombing of the Al Khobar
building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, The New York Times noted that those arrested confessed to serving with Bosnian Muslims forces. Further, the captured men also
admitted to ties with Osama bin Laden.[96][97][98]

In 1999 it was revealed that bin Laden and his Tunisian assistant Mehrez Aodouni were granted citizenship and Bosnian passports in 1993 by the government in Sarajevo.
This information was denied by the Bosnian government following the 9/11 attacks, but it was later found that Aodouni was arrested in Turkey and that at that time he
possessed the Bosnian passport. Following this revelation, a new explanation was given that bin Laden "did not personally collect his Bosnian passport" and that officials
at the Bosnian embassy in Vienna, which issued the passport, could not have known who bin Laden was at the time. [96][97][98] The Bosnian daily Oslobođenje published
in 2001 that three men, believed to be linked to bin Laden, were arrested in Sarajevo in July 2001. The three, one of whom was identified as Imad El Misri, were
Egyptian nationals. The paper said that two of the suspects were holding Bosnian passports. [96]

In 1998 it was reported that bin Laden was operating his al-Qaeda network out of Albania. The Charleston Gazette quoted Fatos Klosi, the head of the Albanian
intelligence service, as saying a network run by Saudi exile Osama bin Laden sent units to fight in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Confirmation of these activities came
from Claude Kader, a French national who said he was a member of bin Laden's Albanian network.

By 1998 four members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) were arrested in Albania and extradited to Egypt. [99]

September 11 attacks

See also: September 11 attacks and Videos and audio recordings of Osama bin Laden

"Allah knows it did not cross our minds to attack the towers but after the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the
American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and
the events that followed – when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers in
Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way (and) to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop
killing our children and women."

– Osama bin Laden, 2004[100]

After repeated denials,[101] in 2004, Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. [102][103][104] The attacks involved
the hijacking of four commercial passenger aircraft,[105] the subsequent destruction of those planes and the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, severe
damage to The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia,[106] and the deaths of 2,974 people and the nineteen hijackers.[107] In response to the attacks, the United States
launched a War on Terror to depose the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and capture al-Qaeda operatives, and several countries strengthened their anti-terrorism
legislation to preclude future attacks. The CIA's Special Activities Division was given the lead in tracking down and killing or capturing bin Laden. [108]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has stated that classified[109] evidence linking al-Qaeda and bin Laden to the attacks of September 11 is clear and irrefutable. [110]
The UK Government reached a similar conclusion regarding al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden's culpability for the September 11, 2001, attacks although the government
report notes that the evidence presented is insufficient for a prosecutable case.[111] Bin Laden initially denied involvement in the attacks. On September 16, 2001, bin
Laden read a statement later broadcast by Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite channel denying responsibility for the attack. [112]

In a videotape recovered by US forces in November 2001 in Jalalabad, bin Laden was seen discussing the attack with Khaled al-Harbi in a way that indicates
foreknowledge.[113] The tape was broadcast on various news networks on December 13, 2001. The merits of this translation have been disputed. Arabist Dr. Abdel El M.
Husseini stated: "This translation is very problematic. At the most important places where it is held to prove the guilt of bin Laden, it is not identical with the Arabic." [114]

In the 2004 Osama bin Laden video, bin Laden abandoned his denials without retracting past statements. In it he stated he had personally directed the nineteen
hijackers.[103][115] In the 18-minute tape, played on Al-Jazeera, four days before the American presidential election, bin Laden accused U.S. President George W. Bush of
negligence on the hijacking of the planes on September 11.[103]

According to the tapes, bin Laden claimed he was inspired to destroy the World Trade Center after watching the destruction of towers in Lebanon by Israel during the
1982 Lebanon War.[116]

In two other tapes aired by Al Jazeera in 2006, Osama bin Laden announces,

I am the one in charge of the nineteen brothers […] I was responsible for entrusting the nineteen brothers […] with the raids [5 minute audiotape broadcast
May 23, 2006],[117]

and is seen with Ramzi bin al-Shibh, as well as two of the 9/11 hijackers, Hamza al-Ghamdi and Wail al-Shehri, as they make preparations for the attacks (videotape
broadcast September 7, 2006).[118]

Criminal charges
On March 16, 1998, Libya issued the first official Interpol arrest warrant against bin Laden and three other people. They were charged for killing two German citizens in
Libya on March 10, 1994, one of whom is thought to have been a German counter-intelligence officer. Bin Laden was still wanted by the Libyan government at the time

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of his death.[119][120] Osama bin Laden was first indicted by the United States on June 8, 1998, when a grand jury indicted Osama bin Laden on charges of killing five
Americans and two Indians in the November 14, 1995 truck bombing of a US-operated Saudi National Guard training center in Riyadh. [121]

Bin Laden was charged with "conspiracy to attack defense utilities of the United States" and prosecutors further charged that bin Laden is the head of the terrorist
organization called al-Qaeda, and that he was a major financial backer of Islamic fighters worldwide. [121] Bin Laden denied involvement but praised the attack. On
November 4, 1998, Osama bin Laden was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on charges of Murder
of US Nationals Outside the United States, Conspiracy to Murder US Nationals Outside the United States, and Attacks on a Federal Facility Resulting in Death [122] for his
alleged role in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. The evidence against bin Laden included courtroom testimony by former al-Qaeda
members and satellite phone records, from a phone purchased for him by al-Qaeda procurement agent Ziyad Khaleel in the U.S. [123]

Bin Laden became the 456th person listed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, when he was added to the list on June 7, 1999, following his indictment along with
others for capital crimes in the 1998 embassy attacks. Attempts at assassination and requests for the extradition of bin Laden from the Taliban of Afghanistan were met
with failure prior to the bombing of Afghanistan in October 2001. [124] In 1999, US President Bill Clinton convinced the United Nations to impose sanctions against
Afghanistan in an attempt to force the Taliban to extradite him.

Years later, on October 10, 2001, bin Laden appeared as well on the initial list of the top 22 FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, which was released to the public by the
President of the United States George W. Bush, in direct response to the attacks of 9/11, but which was again based on the indictment for the 1998 embassy attack. Bin
Laden was among a group of thirteen fugitive terrorists wanted on that latter list for questioning about the 1998 embassy bombings. Bin Laden remains the only fugitive
ever to be listed on both FBI fugitive lists.

Despite the multiple indictments listed above and multiple requests, the Taliban refused to extradite Osama bin Laden. It wasn't until after the bombing of Afghanistan
began in October 2001 that the Taliban finally did offer to turn over Osama bin Laden to a third-party country for trial, in return for the US ending the bombing and
providing evidence that Osama bin Laden was involved in the 9/11 attacks. This offer was rejected by George W Bush stating that this was no longer negotiable with
Bush responding that "there's no need to discuss innocence or guilt. We know he's guilty." [125]

Attempted capture by the United States

Clinton administration

Capturing Osama bin Laden had been an objective of the United States government since the presidency of Bill
Clinton.[126] Shortly after the September 11 attacks it was revealed that President Clinton had signed a directive
authorizing the CIA (and specifically their elite Special Activities Division) to apprehend bin Laden and bring him to the
United States to stand trial after the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Africa; if taking bin Laden alive was deemed
impossible, then deadly force was authorized.[127] On August 20, 1998, 66 cruise missiles launched by United States Navy
ships in the Arabian Sea struck bin Laden's training camps near Khost in Afghanistan, narrowly missing him by a few US propaganda leaflet used in Afghanistan
hours.[128] In 1999 the CIA, together with Pakistani military intelligence, had prepared a team of approximately 60
Pakistani commandos to infiltrate Afghanistan to capture or kill bin Laden, but the plan was aborted by the 1999 Pakistani
coup d'état;[128] in 2000, foreign operatives working on behalf of the CIA had fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a convoy of vehicles in which bin Laden was traveling
through the mountains of Afghanistan, hitting one of the vehicles but not the one in which bin Laden was riding. [127]

In 2000, prior to the September 11 attacks, Paul Bremer characterized the Clinton administration as "correctly focused on bin Laden", while Robert Oakley criticized their
"obsession with Osama".[90]

Bush administration

Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, US government officials named bin Laden and the al-Qaeda organization as the prime suspects and offered a reward of $25 million
for information leading to his capture or death.[9][129] On July 13, 2007, this figure was doubled to $50 million.[130] The Airline Pilots Association and the Air Transport
Association offered an additional $2 million reward.[131]

According to The Washington Post, the US government concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the Battle of Tora Bora, Afghanistan in late 2001, and
according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge, failure by the US to commit enough US ground troops to hunt him led to his escape and was the
gravest failure by the US in the war against al-Qaeda. Intelligence officials have assembled what they believe to be decisive evidence, from contemporary and
subsequent interrogations and intercepted communications, that bin Laden began the battle of Tora Bora inside the cave complex along Afghanistan's mountainous
eastern border.[132]

The Washington Post also reported that the CIA unit composed of their special operations paramilitary forces dedicated to capturing Osama was shut down in late
2005.[133]

US and Afghanistan forces raided the mountain caves in Tora Bora between August 14–16, 2007. The military was drawn to the area after receiving intelligence of a
pre-Ramadan meeting held by al-Qaeda members. After killing dozens of al-Qaeda and Taliban members, they did not find either Osama bin Laden or Ayman
al-Zawahiri.[134]

Obama administration

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in December 2009 that officials had had no reliable information on bin Laden's
whereabouts for years. One week later, General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said in December 2009
that al-Qaeda will not be defeated unless its leader, Osama bin Laden, is captured or killed. Testifying to the U.S. Congress, he said
bin Laden had become an "iconic figure, whose survival emboldens al-Qaeda as a franchising organization across the world," and that
Obama's deployment of 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan meant that success would be possible. "I don't think that we can finally
defeat al-Qaeda until he's captured or killed," McChrystal said of bin Laden. "Killing or capturing bin Laden would not spell the end of
al-Qaeda, but the movement could not be eradicated while he remained at large." [135] In April 2011, Obama approved an operation to
capture bin Laden. On May 1, 2011 (23:30 EDT), Obama released a statement saying that American forces had killed bin Laden. [136]
Members of the Obama
administration track the mission
that killed bin Laden.

Activities and whereabouts after the September 11 attacks

Main article: Location of Osama bin Laden

Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush stated that he now hoped to "kill or capture" bin Laden. Subsequently, Bin Laden retreated
further from public contact to avoid capture. Since that time, numerous speculative press reports were issued about his whereabouts or even death. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda
continued to release time-sensitive and professionally-verified videos demonstrating bin Laden's continued survival as recently as August 2007. [137] Most recently, U.S.
Army General Stanley A. McChrystal had emphasized the continued importance of the capture or killing of bin Laden, thus clearly indicating that the US high command
continued to believe that bin Laden was probably still alive. Some of the conflicting reports regarding both his continued whereabouts and previous mistaken claims about
his death have included the following:

Many claims as to the location of Osama bin Laden were made in the wake of 9/11, although none were ever definitively proven and some placed Osama in different
locations during overlapping time periods. After military offensives in Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11 failed to uncover his whereabouts, Pakistan was regularly identified
as his suspected hiding place.

A December 11, 2005, letter from Atiyah Abd al-Rahman to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi indicates that bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership were based in the Waziristan
region of Pakistan at the time. In the letter, translated by the United States military's Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, "Atiyah" instructs Zarqawi to "send
messengers from your end to Waziristan so that they meet with the brothers of the leadership […] I am now on a visit to them and I am writing you this letter as I am
with them…" Al-Rahman also indicates that bin Laden and al-Qaeda are "weak" and "have many of their own problems." The letter has been deemed authentic by
military and counterterrorism officials, according to The Washington Post.[138][139]

In 2009, a research team led by Thomas W. Gillespie and John A. Agnew of UCLA used satellite-aided geographical analysis to pinpoint three compounds in Parachinar as
bin Laden's likely hideouts.[140]

In March 2009, the New York Daily News reported that the hunt for bin Laden had centered in the Chitral District of Pakistan, including the Kalam Valley. According to the
report, author Rohan Gunaratna states that captured al-Qaeda leaders have confirmed that Chitral is where bin Laden is hiding. [141]

In the first week of December 2009, a Taliban detainee in Pakistan said he had information that bin Laden was in Afghanistan in 2009. The detainee said that in January
or February (of 2009) he met a trusted contact who had seen bin Laden about 15 to 20 days earlier in Afghanistan. However, on December 6, 2009. U.S. Secretary of
Defense Robert Gates stated that the U.S. had had no reliable information on the whereabouts of bin Laden in years. [142] Pakistan's Prime Minister Gillani rejected claims
that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan.[143]

On February 2, 2010, an anonymous official of the Saudi Foreign Ministry declared that the kingdom had no intention of getting involved in peacemaking in Afghanistan
unless the Taliban would sever ties with extremists and expel Osama bin Laden.[144] This condition was announced as the Afghan president Karzai arrived in the kingdom
for an official visit, for a discussion of a possible Saudi role in his plan to reintegrate Taliban militants. [144]

On June 7, 2010, the Kuwaiti Al Siyassa reported that bin Laden was hiding in the mountainous town of Savzevar, in north eastern Iran. [145] The Australian newspaper
online published the claim on June 9.[146]

On October 18, 2010, an unnamed NATO official suggested that bin Laden was "alive and well and living comfortably" in Pakistan, protected by elements of the country's
intelligence services. A senior Pakistani official denied the allegations and said the accusations were designed to put pressure on the Pakistani government ahead of talks
aimed at strengthening ties between Pakistan and the United States. [147]

On April 16, 2011, a leaked Al Jazeera report claimed that bin Laden had been captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. [148]

Death

Main article: Death of Osama bin Laden


See also: Reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden
This section documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.

On April 29, 2011,[149] U.S. President Barack Obama authorized a raid (dubbed "Geronimo" [150]) on bin Laden's suspected location
near Abbottabad, Pakistan. IT was originally believed that bin Laden was hiding near the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan's
Federally Administered Tribal Areas,[151] but he was actually found 100 miles (160 km) away in a million-dollar three-story mansion in
Abbottabad[151] at 34°10′9.67″N 73°14′33.60″E / 34.1693528°N 73.242667°E (http://toolserver.org/~geohack
/geohack.php?pagename=Osama_bin_Laden&params=34_10_9.67_N_73_14_33.60_E_scale:10) .[152] Bin Laden's mansion was
located 0.8 miles (1.3 km) southwest of the Pakistan Military Academy (Pakistan's "West Point"). [153][154][155][156] Google Earth maps Website of the Federal Bureau of
show that the compound was not present in 2001, but was present on images taken in 2005. Investigation listing Bin Laden as
deceased on the Most Wanted List
On May 1, 2011, in Washington, D.C. (May 2, Pakistan Standard Time), U.S. President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin on May 3, 2011.
Laden had been killed. The operation was successfully carried out in the early morning of May 2 by U.S. Navy SEALs with intelligence

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support from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[2][157] During the raid, bin Laden was fatally shot in the head and chest.[158] The entire raid, including intelligence
sweeps of the compound, was completed in less than 40 minutes. His body was taken into custody and biometric facial recognition tests were performed [159].
Subsequent genetic testing reportedly supported the preliminary identification. Among those killed in the raid were one of bin Laden's sons, a man described as a courier,
and the courier's brother. Four years of surveillance of the courier led to the intelligence which made the raid possible. It was reported that the courier was the owner of
the compound where the assault took place.[100] The day after the raid John Brennan, the White House counterterrorism chief, said that the woman that was killed was
one of bin Laden's four wives and was being used as a human shield at the time.[160][161] Two other women, who were also used as shields, were injured during the
raid.[100] However, the next day White House spokesperson, Jay Carney, said that bin Laden's wife had rushed the invading commandos and was shot in the leg, but
was not killed. He also said that the al-Qaeda leader put up resistance, but was unarmed. Bin Laden was shot twice. A shot above his left eye blew away a part of his
skull. He was also hit in the chest.[162]

Within 24 hours of his death, his body was transported to the aircraft carrier "USS Carl Vinson" for final rites and burial at sea. [159] According to the United States
military, the decision to bury his remains at sea was to circumvent international difficulties in choosing a burial site. Some observers at the time suggested it might also
have been designed to prevent any physical enshrinement of the terrorist leader.[163] His death attracted protests from hundreds of people, in the city of
Quetta,southwestern Pakistan, burning US flags and paying homage to the late Al-Qaeda leader. [164].

U.S. officials reported that a team of 24 U.S. Navy SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (SEAL Team Six), [165] under the command of the Joint
Special Operations Command and working with the CIA, stormed bin Laden's compound in two helicopters. Bin Laden, three other men, and a woman were killed in a
firefight in which U.S. forces did not experience any injuries or casualties however one of the helicopters experienced mechanical difficulties, and was destroyed by the
SEALs onsite.[166] In his broadcast announcement President Obama said that U.S. forces "took care to avoid civilian casualties." [167] According to U.S. officials, the attack
was carried out without the knowledge or consent of Pakistani authorities. [161]

DNA from bin Laden's body, compared with DNA samples on record from his dead sister's brain [168] confirmed bin Laden's identity the following day according to
assertions to ABC News by unnamed sources.[169] The 193 cm long body[170] was recovered by the U.S. military and was in its custody[171] until his body was buried in
the North Arabian Sea from the USS Carl Vinson, within 24 hours of his death in accord with Islamic traditions.[172][173][174] One U.S. official stated that, "finding a
country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult." [175] MSNBC reported, "There also was speculation about worry that
a grave site could have become a rallying point for militants." [176]

The U.S. State Department issued a "worldwide caution" for Americans following bin Laden's death and U.S diplomatic facilities everywhere were placed on high alert, a
senior U.S official said.[177][178] Crowds gathered outside the White House, in New York City's Times Square, as well as the World Trade Center, the site of the
September 11 Attacks, to celebrate bin Laden's death.[179] Chittral News, a Pakistani news site, claimed that some people were dismayed that Pakistan has lost its
sovereignty.[180]

Pakistan's alleged role in hiding Osama bin Laden

Main article: Allegations of support network in Pakistan for Osama bin Laden

Critics have accused Pakistan's military and security establishment of protecting bin Laden. [181] For example Mosharraf Zaidi, a leading Pakistani columnist stated “It
seems deeply improbable that bin Laden could have been where he was killed without the knowledge of some parts of the Pakistani state,” [182] This issue is expected to
worsen US ties with Pakistan.[183][184] Bin Laden was killed in what some suggest was his residence for at least three years. [185] It was an expensive compound,[186]
probably built for him[187] and less than 100 kilometres' drive from the capital.

Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari has denied that his country's security forces may have sheltered Osama bin Laden. [188][189] Pakistan's US envoy, ambassador Husain
Haqqani, promises a "full inquiry" into how Pakistani intelligence services failed to find bin Laden in a fortified compound, just a few hours drive from Islamabad, and
stated that "obviously bin Laden did have a support system, the issue is was that support system within the government and the state of Pakistan or within the society of
Pakistan?"[190]

See also

Assassination attempts on Osama bin Laden Islamic mujahid movement


Afghan civil war Islamic terrorism
Destructive cults Islamofascism
Fatawā of Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden in popular culture
Islamic fundamentalism Golden Chain
Terrorists safe havens in Pakistan Videos and audio recordings of Osama bin Laden
War against Islam Pakistan and state terrorism

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Further reading

Berner, Brad K (2007), Quotations from Osama Bin Laden (http://books.google.ca/books?id=ytwlNcIqYs0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Osama+bin+Laden&hl=en&


ei=LCK-TcnaFqb00gGlroi9BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q&f=false) , Peacock Books, ISBN 8124801134,
http://books.google.ca/books?id=ytwlNcIqYs0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Osama+bin+Laden&hl=en&ei=LCK-TcnaFqb00gGlroi9BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&
ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q&f=false
Bin Laden, Osama; Bruce Lawrence (2005), Messages to the world: the statements of Osama Bin Laden (http://books.google.ca/books?id=3_fRlEZoaioC&
printsec=frontcover&dq=Osama+bin+Laden&hl=en&ei=FiG-TdX_Asjj0gG-qZjnBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&
q&f=false) , Verso, ISBN 1844670457, http://books.google.ca/books?id=3_fRlEZoaioC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Osama+bin+Laden&hl=en&ei=FiG-TdX_Asjj0gG-
qZjnBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
Scheuer, Michael (2011), Osama Bin Laden (http://books.google.ca/books?id=Vt-a30Z4_UUC&lpg=PP1&dq=Osama%20bin%20Laden&pg=PP1#v=onepage&
q&f=false) , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199738661, http://books.google.ca/books?id=Vt-a30Z4_UUC&lpg=PP1&dq=Osama%20bin%20Laden&
pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (2006) – Compilation of Usama Bin Laden Statements 1994 – January 2004 (http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ubl-fbis.pdf)

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Hunting Bin Laden (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/) – PBS Frontline (November 2002)


New Yorker article on Osama's youth (http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/12/12/051212fa_fact?currentPage=all) , December 12, 2005
Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America' (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver) , November 24, 2002
Osama bin Laden (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/osamabinladen/) collected news and commentary at The Guardian
Osama bin Laden (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/osama_bin_laden/) collected news and commentary at The New York Times
How the World Sees Osama bin Laden (http://www.life.com/gallery/59991/how-the-world-sees-osama-bin-laden#index/0) – slideshow by Life
Obituary (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/05/20115251555423645.html) from Al-Jazeera
Sandia National Laboratories profile of Bin Laden (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB343/osama_bin_laden_file04.pdf) (1999)

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