banking service chronicle latest edition

 banking service chronicle latest edition

banking service chronicle latest edition Published this article page no   Its finally emerged that the USA had an opportunity to fire a roborocket at Osama bin Laden recently except that he was in Pakistan and their government didnt give permission in time to do the deed. So why should the Americans be thanking them Pakistan did the USA a favor recently ... All they got for it was a surprise rocket attack on their own soil. The situation is wellexplained by Londons Sunday Telegraph in its 29 Jan 06 edition Pakistan delay let bin Laden escape US raid By Massoud Ansari in Karachi Filed 29012006 Prevarication by the Pakistani government cost America the chance to kill Osama bin Laden in an airstrike near the Afghan border two years ago the Sunday Telegraph has been told. A CIA lead that the alQaeda leader was hiding in a remote province was squandered because the Pakistani government delayed giving permission for the attack on its soil according to a senior Western diplomat ... By the time US officials got the goahead bin Laden had left the suspected hideout in Zhob in the Baluchistan province of southwest Pakistan. The nearmiss was cited by the diplomat as the reason why America chose not to consult Islamabad before the US missile strike in Pakistans Bajaur region two weeks ago. The January 13 attack prompted by a tip that bin Ladens deputy Ayman alZawahiri was hiding in a local village killed 13 civilians. According to his account which was backed by sources within Pakistani intelligence the CIA picked up electronic traffic suggesting that bin Laden and his bodyguards had sought temporary shelter in Zhob which is dominated by Pathan and Baloch tribesmen sympathetic to alQaeda and the Taliban. Fearing that a commando raid would cause massive casualties to both sides with no guarantee of success the US decided to launch a strike by laserguided missiles fired from Predator drones. If he was in Zhob at the time it would have been the first known occasion that he had been firmly in Americas sights since his escape from Tora Bora in Afghanistan where he slipped through a cordon of US troops in 2001 ... Coincidentally another article appeared in that same edition of the Sunday Telegraph which underscored the effect bin Ladens words can have Author shoots from obscurity to infamy after plug from bin Laden By Philip Sherwell Filed 29012006 To William Blums surprise and apparent disappointment he found that his name had not been added to the US nofly list when he travelled from his home in Washington DC to Ohio last week to deliver one of his frequent antiAmerican lectures on a campus. Mr Blum is revelling in what he calls his 15 minutes of fame. To many of his compatriots that should read 15 minutes of infamy after Osama bin Laden declared that he was a fan of the previously obscure Leftwing author and virulent Americabasher. The 72yearold writer admits he was delighted by the plug for his book Rogue State A Guide to the Worlds Only Superpower in the Saudi terror masterminds latest taped audio message. After bin Ladens recommendation the book soared from 205763rd to 26th place on Amazon.coms list of mostordered books. I thought I might have ended up on the nofly list after that. Anything is possible in this country today Mr Blum told the Sunday Telegraph perhaps overestimating his importance in the eyes of the US authorities. But he is strikingly honest about his newfound notoriety. I am not at all sorry to have been mentioned by bin Laden he said. In fact Im pleased. Im part of a movement whose goal it is to slow down if not stop the American empire from what its doing around the world ... In his taped message bin Laden recommended that President George W Bush read Mr Blums Rogue State a sharp critique of US foreign policy. The alQaeda mastermind then quoted an extract in which the author wrote that if he was president he could stop terror attacks against the US permanently by apologising very publicly and very sincerely to all the widows and orphans the impoverished and the tortured and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism. Mr Blums agenda notwithstanding the best thing that happened to Americas war on bin Laden is that they didnt kill him. Anyone cognizant who has ever been even remotely exposed to the culture of bin Ladens target audience knows that his words would have a tenfold impact if he became martyred. If he can raise a fringe authors book almost 200000 places in Amazons world with a simple utterance think of what would happen if his words became finite by his demise. The term exalted comes to mind. Their inspirational impact would be hugely amplified by the fact that he too died for his cause just like hes urged his followers to do. In their unilateral and socalled war on terror the USA has spent billions of dollars on revenge and the toppling of a dictatorial blowhard. The opposition has only spent thousands but seemingly has not lost much ground Afghanistan and Iraq are still in relative states of anarchy after all they are fueled by the charisma of a man who as Ive said before is nothing more than a common criminal who has wrapped himself in an extreme fundamentalist cause and then been elevated to celebrity status by his mighty adversary. I dont think the USA can afford to kill him. They need to capture him alive. He never was the terrorist mastermind of alQaeda he was only the banker and the face to their cause. Having him at large until hes captured is not going to significantly alter any of their activities. Only if bin Ladens empty agenda is exposed by being formally brought to justice will there be any chance of effectively revealing his true colors as a charlatan. There needs to be the ultimate occasion where he can be reviled by the true keepers of Muslim faith for perverting their religion. Only in a court of law can this happen and if it comes to pass it will happen. So thank you Pakistan regardless of your operatives motives. banking service chronicle latest edition