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This is exactly what i used to say that, "Osama never killed by USA" Bin Laden not killed by US, claims former CIA agent ANKARA - Berkan Yashar, a Turkish politician and former US intelligence agent has claimed that the American did not kill the al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and in fact, he died naturally. The politician was talking to Russiau2019s Channel One, Turkish News reported.u201cIn September of 1992 I was in Chechnya, thatu2019s when I first met the man whose name was Bin Laden. This meeting took place in a two-story house in the city of Grozny; on the top floor was a family of Gamsakhurdia, the Georgian president, who then was kicked out of his country. We met on the bottom floor; Osama lived in the same building, u201csaid Berkan Yashar.CIA gave him the name Abubakar, according to Channel One. According to Berkan, after that trip Chechen nationals appeared in Osama bin Ladenu2019s circle. Berkan Yashar emphasized that they did not participate u201cdirectly in the terror bombings.u201d He added, u201cThey protected bin Laden, it was his choice because he trusted them entirely, and knew that they would never betray. u201dBerkan revealed some astonishing when asked about bin Ladenu2019s death in Pakistan on May 2 last year. He said: u201cEven if the entire world believed I could not possibly believe it.u201d u201cI personally know the Chechens who protected him, they are Sami, Mahmood, and Ayub, and they were with him until the very end. I remember that day very well, there were three sixes in it: 26 June 2006. These people, as well as two others from London and two Americans, all seven of them, saw him dead. He was very ill, he was skin and bones, very thin, and they washed him and buried him.u201dHe said, u201cOnly three Chechens buried him, according to his willu201d in the mountains on the Pakistan-Afghan border. u201cThere was no assault. I know the American operations from the inside: they find the grave, dig out bin Laden and tell everyone about this. They need to show how technologically the security services worked, how each step was controlled, and then present it as a great victory to show that taxpayers are not paying taxes for nothing.u201d u201cI was the first one who announced the date of his death in November of 2008 at a conference in Washington, not naming any names, and it looks like it was when the Americans began to track my contacts,u201d he said.According to him, the last security he saw was Sami, who was abducted by the CIA before bin Laden was declared killed and most likely it was Sami who disclosed to them the exact place of burial in the mountains on the Pakistan-Afghan border.

London 2012 Olympics and New York City... two places to stay away from due to terrorist "chatter" that is 'out there'. As the Dylan song says, "Something is happening, but you don't know what it is- do you Mr. Jones?"

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Israel making use of its eternal victim hood and trying to perpetuate that image, recently requested to the International Olympic Committee in London to hold a minute of silence for the victims of the assault on Munich 72, trying to initiate an Olympic Tribute for Israel victims only, as if there are not other victims on violence on every spot on Earth and Israeli deaths are the only ones that matter. They themselves are the Number 1 suspects and perpetrators in numerous campaigns of terror in Occupy Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and in many places in the world, where they are known to create false flags operations, do not forget the King David Hotel Bombing, that for many years was blamed on Palestinian. the International Olympic Committee will not hold a moment of silence to honor the victims, despite a request from Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. The decision, handed down Thursday, left Israeli officials fuming. But in a written response to Ayalonu2019s request, IOC President Jacques Rogge said he would personally attend the Israeli delegationu2019s tribute to those slain in the event of Munich 72. Scott Rickard,Christian Flores-Cordova,Ke Ha,'Moe Webster,Pamela Olson,Pam Gray,Pamela Hardyment,Christopher Aaron Grills,Eva Ferrero,Hamdi Ferchichi

author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of a wizard, Harry Potter and his friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's quest to overcome the Dark wizard Lord Voldemort, whose aims are to become immortal, to conquer the wizarding world, subjugate non-magical people, and destroy all those who stand in his way, especially Harry Potter. Since the release of the first novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on 30 June 1997, the books have gained immense popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide.[2] The series has also had some share of criticism, including concern for the increasingly dark tone. As of June 2011[update], the book series has sold about 450 million copies, making it the best-selling books series in history and has been translated into 67 languages,[3][4] and the last four books consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history. A series of many genres, including fantasy and coming of age (with elements of mystery, thriller, adventure, and romance), it has many cultural meanings and references.[5][6][7][8] According to Rowling, the main theme is death,[9] although it is primarily considered to be a work of children's literature. There are also many other themes in the series, such as prejudice and corruption.[10] The initial major publishers of the books were Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom and Scholastic Press in the United States. The books have since been published by many publishers worldwide. The books, with the seventh book split into two parts, have been made into an eight-part film series by Warner Bros. Pictures, the highest-grossing film series of all time. The series also originated much tie-in merchandise, making the Harry Potter brand worth in excess of $15 billion.[11] Contents [hide] 1 Plot 1.1 Early years 1.2 Voldemort returns 1.3 Supplementary works 2 Structure and genre 3 Themes 4 Origins and publishing history 4.1 Translations 4.2 Completion of the series 5 Achievements 5.1 Cultural impact 5.2 Awards and honours 5.3 Commercial success 6 Reception 6.1 Literary criticism 6.2 Social impacts 6.3 Controversies 7 Audiobooks 8 Films 9 Games 10 Attractions 10.1 United States 10.2 United Kingdom 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External links PlotFurther information: Harry Potter universe Complete set of the seven books of the Harry Potter series.The novels revolve around Harry Potter, an orphan who discovers at the age of eleven that he is a wizard, living within the ordinary world of non-magical, or Muggle, people.[12] His ability is inborn and such children are invited to attend a school that teaches the necessary skills to succeed in the wizarding world.[13] Harry becomes a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and it is in here where most of the novels' events take place. As Harry develops through his adolescence, he learns to overcome the problems that face him: magical, social and emotional, including ordinary teenage challenges such as friendships and exams, and the greater test of preparing himself for the confrontation that lies ahead.[14] Each book chronicles one year in Harry's life[15] with the main narrative being set in the years 1991u201398.[16] The books also contain many flashbacks, which are frequently experienced by Harry viewing the memories of other characters in a device called a Pensieve. The environment J. K. Rowling created is completely separate from reality yet intimately connected to it. While the fantasy land of Narnia is an alternative universe and the Lord of the Rings' Middle-earth a mythic past, the wizarding world of Harry Potter exists in parallel within the real world and this is how Potter's world contains magical elements similar to things in everyday life. Many of its institutions and locations are recognisable, such as London.[17] It comprises a fragmented collection of overlooked hidden streets, ancient pubs, lonely country manors and secluded castles that remain invisible to the Muggle population.[13] Early yearsWhen the first novel of the series Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (published in some countries as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) opens, it is clear some remarkable event has taken place in the wizarding world, an event so very remarkable, even the Muggles notice signs of it. The full background to this event and to the person of Harry Potter is only revealed gradually, through the series. After the introductory chapter, the book leaps forward to a time shortly before Harry Potter's eleventh birthday, and it is at this point that his background begins to be revealed. Harry's first contact with the wizarding world is through a half-giant, Rubeus Hagrid, keeper of grounds and keys at Hogwarts. Hagrid reveals some of Harry's history.[18] Harry learns that as a baby he witnessed his parents' murder by the power-obsessed dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, who then attempted to kill him also.[18] For reasons not immediately revealed, the spell with which Voldemort tried to kill Harry rebounded. Harry survived with only a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead as a memento of the attack, and Voldemort disappeared. As its inadvertent saviour from Voldemort's reign of terror, Harry has become a living legend in the wizarding world. However, at the orders of the venerable and well-known wizard Albus Dumbledore, the orphaned Harry had been placed in the home of his unpleasant Muggle (non-wizard) relatives, the Dursleys who had him safe but hid his true heritage from him in hopes that he would grow up "normal".[18] With Hagrid's help, Harry prepares for and undertakes his first year of study at Hogwarts. As Harry begins to explore the magical world, the reader is introduced to many of the primary locations used throughout the series. Harry meets most of the main characters and gains his two closest friends: Ron Weasley, a fun-loving member of an ancient, large, happy, but hard-up wizarding family, and Hermione Granger, a gifted and hardworking witch of non-magical parentage.[18][19] Harry also encounters the school's potions master, Severus Snape, who displays a deep and abiding dislike for him. The plot concludes with Harry's second confrontation with Lord Voldemort, who in his quest for immortality, yearns to gain the power of the Philosopher's Stone a substance that gives everlasting life.[18] The series continues with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets describing Harry's second year at Hogwarts. He and his friends investigate a 50-year-old mystery that appears tied to recent sinister events at the school. Ron's younger sister, Ginny Weasley, enrols in her first year at Hogwarts, and finds a notebook which turns out to be Voldemort's diary from his school days. Ginny becomes possessed by Voldemort through the diary and opens the "Chamber of Secrets

Tell the International Olympic Committee: 40 Years is Enough! That should have been a given from the 1976 Olympic Games onwards. I have already signed the petition and shared it with many. Today, it is all the more important for each of us to take a moment, if you have not already done so, to sign this petition and pass it onto to those on your list as well as post it on your Facebook page. It was announced yesterday (see below:

There is NO DOUBT, the London Olympics will be the stage of the next false flag "terror Attack

THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (G) Saturday May 19 at 2pm Sunday May 19 at 2pm In The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain - a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It's a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

Elite British security teams took to the River Thames as part of a massive security rehearsal to foil terror disaster at the Olympics. Scotland Yard and the Royal Marines are joining forces for a string of "familiarisation exercises" to avoid catastrophe in London this summer. The Metropolitan Police's Marine Policing Unit and army members will provide a rare glimpse of Britain's top secret security plan as they take to the water. The drills "are designed to make sure that everyone has the same level of knowledge about how the river operates and how our tactics work together," police said. Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison, head of the force's security operation for the Games, said: "All of our planning is designed to mitigate against potential risks during the summer of 2012, and this is an example of where we will be using specialist military capability to support us. "This exercise is not in response to any specific threat, but is part of our planning to pre-deploy certain specialist assets to bolster our operation. "This will be a summer like no other in London. The Thames runs through the very heart of our capital and will be a popular place for people who want to be part of the Olympic spirit. This is all part of our planning to ensure this summer's events take place safely and securely." About 44 marine police officers in rigid inflatables and fast response boats will be joined by up to 94 military personnel and a Lynx Navy helicopter. Crime and security minister James Brokenshire said: "This exercise forms part of the comprehensive testing and exercise programme that is crucial in securing the Games. "We are leaving nothing to chance to ensure we deliver a safe and secure Games that London, the UK and the world can enjoy." Typhoon jets and HMS Ocean, the largest ship in the Royal Navy's fleet, will eventually be deployed to protect the London 2012 Games along with up to 13,500 military personnel. The Government has stressed that operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere would not be affected by the security plan costing hundreds of millions of pounds. Typhoon jets will be stationed temporarily at RAF Northolt, and Puma and Lynx helicopters will operate from HMS Ocean.r r

te British security teams took to the River Thames as part of a massive security rehearsal to foil terror disaster at the Olympics. Scotland Yard and the Royal Marines are joining forces for a string of "familiarisation exercises" to avoid catastrophe in London this summer. The Metropolitan Police's Marine Policing Unit and army members will provide a rare glimpse of Britain's top secret security plan as they take to the water. The drills "are designed to make sure that everyone has the same level of knowledge about how the river operates and how our tactics work together," police said. Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison, head of the force's security operation for the Games, said: "All of our planning is designed to mitigate against potential risks during the summer of 2012, and this is an example of where we will be using specialist military capability to support us. "This exercise is not in response to any specific threat, but is part of our planning to pre-deploy certain specialist assets to bolster our operation. "This will be a summer like no other in London. The Thames runs through the very heart of our capital and will be a popular place for people who want to be part of the Olympic spirit. This is all part of our planning to ensure this summer's events take place safely and securely." About 44 marine police officers in rigid inflatables and fast response boats will be joined by up to 94 military personnel and a Lynx Navy helicopter. Crime and security minister James Brokenshire said: "This exercise forms part of the comprehensive testing and exercise programme that is crucial in securing the Games. "We are leaving nothing to chance to ensure we deliver a safe and secure Games that London, the UK and the world can enjoy." Typhoon jets and HMS Ocean, the largest ship in the Royal Navy's fleet, will eventually be deployed to protect the London 2012 Games along with up to 13,500 military personnel. The Government has stressed that operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere would not be affected by the security plan costing hundreds of millions of pounds. Typhoon jets will be stationed temporarily at RAF Northolt, and Puma and Lynx helicopters will operate from HMS Ocean.r r

o the Mumbai carnage. The US envoy subsequently sent a detailed report to the US administration on Saeed's viewpoint, but the State Department reportedly made it clear to Munter that it would not be responsible for any assurances given by him to the JuD chief.\n\nTo recall, following the bounty announcement, Saeed addressed a press conference in Rawalpindi on April 4 and dared the US to carry out a military raid against him like the one that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad a year ago.\n\nTaunting the US to give him the head money offered for information leading to his arrest under the Rewards for Justice Program, Saeed said he would inform the US authorities about his whereabouts so he could claim the cash. \"I am not hiding in caves and mountains, I am here in Rawalpindi. If the Americans want to contact me, I am present here, they can contact me. I am also ready to face any US court, or wherever there is proof against me or my group's involvement in terrorist activities.\"\n\nSaeed then mocked the US bounty decision for someone who lives so openly in Pakistan. \"These Americans seriously lack information. Don't they know where I go and where I live and what I do? These rewards are usually announced for people who are hiding in mountains or caves. I wish the Americans would give this reward money to me.\"\n\nMunter, who is known for his conciliatory approach, decided to pacify Saeed in a one-on-one meeting in Islamabad that was kept secret and which is still not being confirmed officially by either side as it is perceived to be damaging for both parties.\n\nThe US Embassy spokesman in Islamabad has categorically refuted that any meeting between Munter and Saeed took place. \"Ambassador Munter has never met with Hafiz Saeed and no US official has made any promises to, or agreements with, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed who is a wanted terrorist responsible for the deadly attack on Mumbai in November 2008 that killed 166 people, including six Americans. The JuD amir is subject to UN Security Council Resolution 1267/1989 sanctions and there is an international responsibility on the member states to bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks to justice,\" the US embassy spokesperson said in an official press release.\n\nApproached for comments, JuD spokesman Mohammad Yahya Mujahid too denied reports of a meeting between Saeed and Munter, saying his amir was not at all interested in holding secret meetings with someone who represented the enemy of Islam and Pakistan. \"[The United States] has butchered millions of Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.\"\n\nBut the fact remains that Munter had declared in Lahore (soon after his alleged meeting with Saeed) on April 28, that the US government did not announce any bounty or head money specifically for the JuD amir and that the matter had been misreported in the Pakistani media.\n\n\"The Pakistani media is very active and responsible but it misreported the issue of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed,\" Munter said in reply to queries after the annual dinner of the American Business Forum at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club in Lahore. \"Though Hafiz Saeed is a suspected accused of the Mumbai terror attacks, the US government didn't place either a bounty or head money for him,\" he said.\n\nDiplomatic circles in Islamabad say these developments were brought to the knowledge of Clinton, who apparently did not appreciate Munter's actions as they could be perceived as rolling back the tough stance that was later spelled out by Clinton during her Indian tour, when she bluntly reprimanded Pakistan for not taking any action against Saeed as the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks.\n\nDelivering a speech in Kolkata on May 8, and lending support to India to fight terrorism, Clinton confirmed the bounty on Saeed. Calling the amir one of the principal architects of the Mumbai attacks, she said the bounty was meant to show solidarity with the people of India.\n\n\"I am well aware that the Pakistani government had not yet taken steps to help secure Hafiz Saeed's conviction. We're going to be pushing that. So it's a way of raising the visibility and pointing out to those who are associated with him that there is a cost for that,\" Clinton said, adding that Pakistan should do more to ensure that its territory is not used as a launching pad for carrying out more terrorist attacks.\n\nHardly 24 hours after Clinton's Kolkata speech, which clearly negated Munter's earlier stance on the Saeed head money issue, the US ambassador made public his decision to quit.\n\nAmir Mir is a senior Pakistani journalist and the author of several books on the subject of militant Islam and terrorism, the latest being The Bhutto murder trail: From Waziristan to GHQ\n__________________________________________________________\nVeterans For Peace Calls for an End to NATO\n\nhttp://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2012/05/10/veterans-for-peace-calls-for-an-end-to-nato\n\nVeterans for Peace works for the abolition of war, and while that process will take many steps, one that should be taken immediately is the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.\nNATO has always been a war-making institution lacking in accountability to the peoples of the nations it claims to represent. But NATO at least once claimed a defensive purpose that it neither claims nor represents any longer.\n\nNATO has militarized the nations of Europe against the will of their people, now maintains hundreds of nuclear weapons in non-nuclear European nations in blatant violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and is threatening Russia with missile base construction on its borders.\n\nHaving fought aggressive wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, NATO remains in Afghanistan, illegally, immorally, and to no coherent purpose. The people of the United States, other NATO nations, and Afghanistan itself, overwhelmingly favor an end to NATO's presence, while Presidents Obama and Karzai, against the will of their people, work to commit U.S. forces to at least 12.5 more years in Afghanistan.\nNATO provides the United States with a pretense of global coalition and legality. Approximately half of the world's military spending is U.S., while adding the other NATO nations brings the total to three-quarters. The head of the Pentagon, Leon Panetta, recently testified in Congress that a war could be made legal by working through either the United Nations or NATO. While no written law supports that claim, it is a claim that has served its intended purpose. NATO also serves as a false legal shield, protecting the U.S. military from Congressional oversight.\n\nThe U.S. dominated NATO holds up the past year's war on Libya as a model for the future, with an eye on various potential victims, including Syria and Iran. In so doing, NATO serves as the armed enforcer of the exploitative agenda of the G-8, which has fled Chicago for the guarded compound at Camp David.\nNATO's interests are neither democratically determined nor humanitarian in purpose. NATO does not bomb all nations guilty of humanitarian abuses. Nor does NATO's bombing alleviate human suffering, it adds to it. Saudi Arabia is not a target. Bahrain is not a target. Ben Ali and Mubarak were not targets. An analysis of NATO's real motivations reveals a desire to control the global flow of oil, to support dictators who have supported U.S./NATO wars, prisons and torture operations, to back Israel's expansionist agenda, and to surround and threaten the nation of Iran.\n\nThe killing and destruction engaged in by NATO in Libya was illegal, immoral, and counter-productive as is its aggression in Afghanistan. NATO's wars have not brought democracy, peace, or human rights anywhere.\nLibya is not a model for future NATO action. There is no model for future NATO action. NATO has lost its reason to exist if it ever had one. Veterans For Peace joins with our brothers and sisters in Europe, who are also rallying nonviolently against NATO, in calling for its elimination.\n\nFrom Free Press:\n\nJournalists and activists are converging on Chicago this week for the NATO summit. But will they be able to cover the summit and protests without getting harassed or arrested?\nSince September, police have rounded up dozens of people around the country for the \"crime\" of trying to document political protests in public spaces.1\n\nIt has gotten so bad that America's global press freedom ranking has dropped to a historic low, according to two separate surveys.2\n\nA coalition of free speech and digital rights groups recently called on the Justice Department to defend our \"right to record.\" We need to amplify this message before the Chicago protests begin.3\n\nPlease Join Us and Sign the Letter. Protect Everyone's Right to Record.\nUsing little more than iPhones, Androids or other mobile devices, people have changed the way breaking news is recorded and shared with the world. In return, police have targeted, harassed - and in many cases, arrested - those trying to capture images and video of public events.\n\nLast week a federal appeals court struck down a controversial Illinois law that allowed police to arrest anyone recording their actions.4\n\nThis development comes at a critical time for journalists and activists hoping to cover the Chicago protests.\n\nTell the DoJ: Our First Amendment right to record must extend to everyone.\n\nJosh Stearns\nFree Press\n\n1. \"Tracking Journalist Arrests at Occupy Protests Around the Country\": http://act2.freepress.net/go/7343?akid=3528.9358142.hlNkCS&t=7\n2. \"Press Freedom Index 2011-2012,\" Reporters Without Borders: http://act2.freepress.net/go/8314?akid=3528.9358142.hlNkCS&t=9\n3. \"Free Speech and Digital Rights Groups Call on Department of Justice to Protect Everyone's Right to Record,\" Free Press, May 3, 2012: http://act2.freepress.net/go/10086?akid=3528.9358142.hlNkCS&t=11\n4. \"First Amendment Prevents Prosecution for Recording Police Performance of Public Duties,\" Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, May 8, 2012: http://act2.freepress.net/go/10262?akid=3528.9358142.hlNkCS&t=13\n\n__._,_.___\n\n\n\nRecent Activity:\n\nVisit Your Group\n\nUnless indicated otherwise, all statements posted represent the views of their authors and not necessarily those of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition. visit http://al-awda.org/connecticut for details on this group\n\nContact your representatives and elected officials: use\nhttp://congress.cfl-online.org/\n\nFor other ways to help, see http://BoycottIsraeliGoods.org

British security teams took to the River Thames as part of a massive security rehearsal to foil terror disaster at the Olympics. Scotland Yard and the Royal Marines are joining forces for a string of "familiarisation exercises" to avoid catastrophe in London this summer. The Metropolitan Police's Marine Policing Unit and army members will provide a rare glimpse of Britain's top secret security plan as they take to the water. The drills "are designed to make sure that everyone has the same level of knowledge about how the river operates and how our tactics work together," police said. Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison, head of the force's security operation for the Games, said: "All of our planning is designed to mitigate against potential risks during the summer of 2012, and this is an example of where we will be using specialist military capability to support us. "This exercise is not in response to any specific threat, but is part of our planning to pre-deploy certain specialist assets to bolster our operation. "This will be a summer like no other in London. The Thames runs through the very heart of our capital and will be a popular place for people who want to be part of the Olympic spirit. This is all part of our planning to ensure this summer's events take place safely and securely." About 44 marine police officers in rigid inflatables and fast response boats will be joined by up to 94 military personnel and a Lynx Navy helicopter. Crime and security minister James Brokenshire said: "This exercise forms part of the comprehensive testing and exercise programme that is crucial in securing the Games. "We are leaving nothing to chance to ensure we deliver a safe and secure Games that London, the UK and the world can enjoy." Typhoon jets and HMS Ocean, the largest ship in the Royal Navy's fleet, will eventually be deployed to protect the London 2012 Games along with up to 13,500 military personnel. The Government has stressed that operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere would not be affected by the security plan costing hundreds of millions of pounds. Typhoon jets will be stationed temporarily at RAF Northolt, and Puma and Lynx helicopters will operate from HMS Ocean.r r

o the Mumbai carnage. The US envoy subsequently sent a detailed report to the US administration on Saeed's viewpoint, but the State Department reportedly made it clear to Munter that it would not be responsible for any assurances given by him to the JuD chief.\n\nTo recall, following the bounty announcement, Saeed addressed a press conference in Rawalpindi on April 4 and dared the US to carry out a military raid against him like the one that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad a year ago.\n\nTaunting the US to give him the head money offered for information leading to his arrest under the Rewards for Justice Program, Saeed said he would inform the US authorities about his whereabouts so he could claim the cash. \"I am not hiding in caves and mountains, I am here in Rawalpindi. If the Americans want to contact me, I am present here, they can contact me. I am also ready to face any US court, or wherever there is proof against me or my group's involvement in terrorist activities.\"\n\nSaeed then mocked the US bounty decision for someone who lives so openly in Pakistan. \"These Americans seriously lack information. Don't they know where I go and where I live and what I do? These rewards are usually announced for people who are hiding in mountains or caves. I wish the Americans would give this reward money to me.\"\n\nMunter, who is known for his conciliatory approach, decided to pacify Saeed in a one-on-one meeting in Islamabad that was kept secret and which is still not being confirmed officially by either side as it is perceived to be damaging for both parties.\n\nThe US Embassy spokesman in Islamabad has categorically refuted that any meeting between Munter and Saeed took place. \"Ambassador Munter has never met with Hafiz Saeed and no US official has made any promises to, or agreements with, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed who is a wanted terrorist responsible for the deadly attack on Mumbai in November 2008 that killed 166 people, including six Americans. The JuD amir is subject to UN Security Council Resolution 1267/1989 sanctions and there is an international responsibility on the member states to bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks to justice,\" the US embassy spokesperson said in an official press release.\n\nApproached for comments, JuD spokesman Mohammad Yahya Mujahid too denied reports of a meeting between Saeed and Munter, saying his amir was not at all interested in holding secret meetings with someone who represented the enemy of Islam and Pakistan. \"[The United States] has butchered millions of Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.\"\n\nBut the fact remains that Munter had declared in Lahore (soon after his alleged meeting with Saeed) on April 28, that the US government did not announce any bounty or head money specifically for the JuD amir and that the matter had been misreported in the Pakistani media.\n\n\"The Pakistani media is very active and responsible but it misreported the issue of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed,\" Munter said in reply to queries after the annual dinner of the American Business Forum at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club in Lahore. \"Though Hafiz Saeed is a suspected accused of the Mumbai terror attacks, the US government didn't place either a bounty or head money for him,\" he said.\n\nDiplomatic circles in Islamabad say these developments were brought to the knowledge of Clinton, who apparently did not appreciate Munter's actions as they could be perceived as rolling back the tough stance that was later spelled out by Clinton during her Indian tour, when she bluntly reprimanded Pakistan for not taking any action against Saeed as the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks.\n\nDelivering a speech in Kolkata on May 8, and lending support to India to fight terrorism, Clinton confirmed the bounty on Saeed. Calling the amir one of the principal architects of the Mumbai attacks, she said the bounty was meant to show solidarity with the people of India.\n\n\"I am well aware that the Pakistani government had not yet taken steps to help secure Hafiz Saeed's conviction. We're going to be pushing that. So it's a way of raising the visibility and pointing out to those who are associated with him that there is a cost for that,\" Clinton said, adding that Pakistan should do more to ensure that its territory is not used as a launching pad for carrying out more terrorist attacks.\n\nHardly 24 hours after Clinton's Kolkata speech, which clearly negated Munter's earlier stance on the Saeed head money issue, the US ambassador made public his decision to quit.\n\nAmir Mir is a senior Pakistani journalist and the author of several books on the subject of militant Islam and terrorism, the latest being The Bhutto murder trail: From Waziristan to GHQ\n__________________________________________________________\nVeterans For Peace Calls for an End to NATO\n\nhttp://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2012/05/10/veterans-for-peace-calls-for-an-end-to-nato\n\nVeterans for Peace works for the abolition of war, and while that process will take many steps, one that should be taken immediately is the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.\nNATO has always been a war-making institution lacking in accountability to the peoples of the nations it claims to represent. But NATO at least once claimed a defensive purpose that it neither claims nor represents any longer.\n\nNATO has militarized the nations of Europe against the will of their people, now maintains hundreds of nuclear weapons in non-nuclear European nations in blatant violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and is threatening Russia with missile base construction on its borders.\n\nHaving fought aggressive wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, NATO remains in Afghanistan, illegally, immorally, and to no coherent purpose. The people of the United States, other NATO nations, and Afghanistan itself, overwhelmingly favor an end to NATO's presence, while Presidents Obama and Karzai, against the will of their people, work to commit U.S. forces to at least 12.5 more years in Afghanistan.\nNATO provides the United States with a pretense of global coalition and legality. Approximately half of the world's military spending is U.S., while adding the other NATO nations brings the total to three-quarters. The head of the Pentagon, Leon Panetta, recently testified in Congress that a war could be made legal by working through either the United Nations or NATO. While no written law supports that claim, it is a claim that has served its intended purpose. NATO also serves as a false legal shield, protecting the U.S. military from Congressional oversight.\n\nThe U.S. dominated NATO holds up the past year's war on Libya as a model for the future, with an eye on various potential victims, including Syria and Iran. In so doing, NATO serves as the armed enforcer of the exploitative agenda of the G-8, which has fled Chicago for the guarded compound at Camp David.\nNATO's interests are neither democratically determined nor humanitarian in purpose. NATO does not bomb all nations guilty of humanitarian abuses. Nor does NATO's bombing alleviate human suffering, it adds to it. Saudi Arabia is not a target. Bahrain is not a target. Ben Ali and Mubarak were not targets. An analysis of NATO's real motivations reveals a desire to control the global flow of oil, to support dictators who have supported U.S./NATO wars, prisons and torture operations, to back Israel's expansionist agenda, and to surround and threaten the nation of Iran.\n\nThe killing and destruction engaged in by NATO in Libya was illegal, immoral, and counter-productive as is its aggression in Afghanistan. NATO's wars have not brought democracy, peace, or human rights anywhere.\nLibya is not a model for future NATO action. There is no model for future NATO action. NATO has lost its reason to exist if it ever had one. Veterans For Peace joins with our brothers and sisters in Europe, who are also rallying nonviolently against NATO, in calling for its elimination.\n\nFrom Free Press:\n\nJournalists and activists are converging on Chicago this week for the NATO summit. But will they be able to cover the summit and protests without getting harassed or arrested?\nSince September, police have rounded up dozens of people around the country for the \"crime\" of trying to document political protests in public spaces.1\n\nIt has gotten so bad that America's global press freedom ranking has dropped to a historic low, according to two separate surveys.2\n\nA coalition of free speech and digital rights groups recently called on the Justice Department to defend our \"right to record.\" We need to amplify this message before the Chicago protests begin.3\n\nPlease Join Us and Sign the Letter. Protect Everyone's Right to Record.\nUsing little more than iPhones, Androids or other mobile devices, people have changed the way breaking news is recorded and shared with the world. In return, police have targeted, harassed - and in many cases, arrested - those trying to capture images and video of public events.\n\nLast week a federal appeals court struck down a controversial Illinois law that allowed police to arrest anyone recording their actions.4\n\nThis development comes at a critical time for journalists and activists hoping to cover the Chicago protests.\n\nTell the DoJ: Our First Amendment right to record must extend to everyone.\n\nJosh Stearns\nFree Press\n\n1. \"Tracking Journalist Arrests at Occupy Protests Around the Country\": http://act2.freepress.net/go/7343?akid=3528.9358142.hlNkCS&t=7\n2. \"Press Freedom Index 2011-2012,\" Reporters Without Borders: http://act2.freepress.net/go/8314?akid=3528.9358142.hlNkCS&t=9\n3. \"Free Speech and Digital Rights Groups Call on Department of Justice to Protect Everyone's Right to Record,\" Free Press, May 3, 2012: http://act2.freepress.net/go/10086?akid=3528.9358142.hlNkCS&t=11\n4. \"First Amendment Prevents Prosecution for Recording Police Performance of Public Duties,\" Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, May 8, 2012: http://act2.freepress.net/go/10262?akid=3528.9358142.hlNkCS&t=13\n\n__._,_.___\n\n\n\nUnless indicated otherwise, all statements posted represent the views of their authors and not necessarily those of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition. visit http://al-awda.org/connecticut for details on this group\n\nContact your representatives and elected officials: use\nhttp://congress.cfl-online.org/\n\nFor other ways to help, see http://BoycottIsraeliGoods.org

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