As American Muslims join in the cheering for Bin Ladin’s death, a rabbi sounds a note of caution that he would have preferred “to see Bin Laden arrested to stand trial, “ but denials of charges by Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood that killing was an intended assassination and not solely a consequence of his violently resisting arrest put in doubt by a senior U.S. security official’s admission that “[t]his was a kill operation” and that the “elite Navy Seals team dropped by helicopter to the compound were under orders to kill not capture bin Laden” …
… so now Libyan rebels demand to know …
- If US Killed Osama bin Laden, Ask Libyans, Why Not Assassinate Qaddafi? (Christian Science Monitor)
… and U.S. denials notwithstanding, the attack on Gadaffi’s residence show “no obvious signs of military command and control”:
- Foreign Embassies Attacked in Tripoli After NATO Airstrike that Kills Gaddafi Son, Grandchildren (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
“Residents of Deraa told Reuters news agency they had seen packed busloads of handcuffed and hooded young men being taken in the direction of a large detention centre in the city run by the security services”:
His manager told him, “It’s better to be Edgar than Mohamed today,†so he’s suing the Waldorf-Astoria “for religious and racial discrimination, charging that hotel management has created a ‘hostile work environment’†by forcing him to wear false name-tags and allowing co-workers to torment him with names like “terrorist†and “al Qaeda boyâ€:
In an important policy shift during its hoped-for transition to democracy, Egypt no says that “the US should view a re-united Palestinian movement, including Hamas, as a positive development, and that it should persuade Israel to negotiate with it”:
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