Pakistani reactions to bin laden death

Pakistani reactions to bin Laden death

 

As news of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden's death reverberates in Pakistan, embassies here are shutting down, hotels are ramping up security, restaurants are reporting cancelled reservations and public gatherings like plays, concerts and lectures, are being postponed. The feeling in Lahore is familiar: it is like the dread that lingers over the city in the days after it has suffered a massive terrorist attack.

This time, though, the attack has not yet happened, and the dread spans the entire country. Pakistanis know they may pay a blood price for Bin Laden's killing. A purported mirror has been broken. Bad luck is to be expected.

Yet as I speak to friends and visit the market there is resignation , as well. After a decade of slaughter many here feel that terrorists are already striking Pakistan as hard as they can, and moreover that al-Qaida is no longer as powerful as other militant groups. The most common sentiment I hear is that nothing much will change.

That depends, of course, on how the US responds. Barack Obama noted in his speech that "counterterrorism co-operation with Pakistan helped lead us to Bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding." But he also said that "a small team of Americans carried out the operation" itself. Between these two assertions is a gap open to a horde of questions.

For Bin Laden was not killed in the tribal areas near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. He was killed in Abbottabad, a place I last visited a few years ago. In my childhood, Abbottabad was known as a pleasant hill station, a rest stop not far from Islamabad along the fabled Silk Road that winds its way to China through the mighty Karakoram and Himalaya mountains. Rampant population growth and climate change have seen its desirability as a tourist destination decline.

But while well-off Pakistani tourists no longer flock to Abbottabad as they once did, it remains famous in the country for its proximity to the Pakistan Military Academy, located just a few kilometers away. Hunting down a wanted terrorist in Abbottabad is, in American or British terms, like hunting him down near West Point or Sandhurst.

So a debate is raging in Pakistan over what really happened. Conspiracy theories abound. Some say that Pakistani intelligence agencies uncovered Bin Laden but wanted the US to take responsibility for his killing in order to blunt a possible backlash against Pakistan. Others argue that it is inconceivable that US helicopters could have penetrated so deeply into Pakistani airspace without being detected by the Pakistan army and air force (in the past, US helicopter incursions near the Afghanistan border have been turned back with warning shots), and therefore that the operation must have been jointly authorised.

But there are other, truly frightening theories, such as that even in a town with as dense a military presence as Abbottabad, Bin Laden managed to elude Pakistani security forces, suggesting a remarkable degree of incompetence. More terrifying still would be if there were official complicity in harbouring him, putting Pakistan on a collision course with the US. Pakistanis must hope that neither of these is true.

Because Pakistan is suffering badly. Crowds are justifiably celebrating Bin Laden's death in downtown Manhattan, where a decade ago al-Qaida terrorists infamously massacred nearly 3,000 people.

Less well known is the statistic that since the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, terrorists have killed nearly five times that number of people in Pakistan. The annual number of Pakistani fatalities from terrorism has surged from fewer than than 200 in 2003 to almost 1,000 in 2006, to more than 3,000 in 2009. In all, since 2001 more than 30,000 have died here in terror and counterterror violence; slain by bombs, bullets, cannons and drones. America's 9/11 has given way to Pakistan's 24-7-365. The battlefield has been displaced. And in Pakistan it is much more bloody.

If Osama Bin Laden's death means that the war in south and central Asia can now begin to end, that America can begin to withdraw its forces from the region, and that Pakistan and Afghanistan can somehow rediscover peace, then one day there may be celebrations here as well.

In the meantime American, Pakistani, Afghan, and terrorist commanders will go on conducting their operations, the slaughter will continue, and human beings – all equal, all equal – will keep dying, their deaths mostly invisible to the outside world but at a rate evoking a line of aircraft stretching off into the distance, bearing down upon tower after tower after tower. Bin Laden is dead. But many Pakistanis sense the impending arrival of yet another murderous plane, headed their way.
Reactions by Pakistanis in Islamabad to the reports of American action on their soil have been mixed.

The government said it was a breakthrough against militant Islamism. US ties with Pakistan have been very low recently.

Former Pakistan President and army chief Pervez Musharraf said the US raid to kill bin Laden was a “violation of Pakistan’s borders” but added his death has positive long-term implications.

On the streets, lawyer Ghulam Murtaza was one of those who mistrust both governments. He said: “No outside forces should be allowed to enter Pakistani territory. It is a violation of our sovereignty, and we should give no country permission to do that.”

In the majority Muslim country’s largest city, Karachi, some insisted it was time for anti-Taliban action here to stop.

Residents Asad Ali said: “Now that the so-called head of the Taliban has been killed, the US drama and drone attacks in Pakistan should end. If the leader is dead then their organisation will be destabilised. So, America should stop the killing of innocent Pakistanis.”

Bin Laden was not the head of the Afghan Taliban, but of al Qaeda, though he was aided and sheltered by the Taliban.
Musharraf, who lost power in 2008, told Reuters that Pakistani intelligence ought to have known bin Laden was living near Islamabad. He also said al Qaeda supporters may take revenge against the United States and Pakistan.

Describing the killing as a victory for the people of Pakistan, Musharraf said: "It's a very positive step and it will have positive long-term implications."

"Today we won a battle, but the war against terror will continue," Musharraf said in Dubai, where he has a home.

Bin Laden died in the garrison town of Abbottabad, 35 miles north of Islamabad, where U.S. forces tracked down the al Qaeda leader who had eluded capture for years.

Musharraf said, however, that the operation had infringed on his nation's sovereignty: "It's a violation to have crossed Pakistan's borders," he said in an interview.

Musharraf also criticized Pakistan's intelligence apparatus for failing to find bin Laden, whose group staged the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

"It's an intelligence failure," said Musharraf, who quit office to avoid impeachment charges. "The intelligence ought to have known."

Pakistani authorities were told the details of the raid on bin Laden only after it had taken place, highlighting a lack of trust between Washington and Islamabad.

Musharraf called bin Laden's decision to hide near the capital, rather than in the remote regions of the country where he was thought to be hiding, "an intelligent act."

At the same time, Musharraf admitted that the attack came at a time when al Qaeda's influence in Pakistan -- a front line in the United States' fight against Islamist militancy -- had been replaced by growing Taliban influence.

"Osama is a person who declared war on Pakistan and many of the terrorist acts have been linked with al Qaeda, therefore it's a victory for Pakistan," said Musharraf.

Musharraf, who took office in 1999 through a bloodless coup, two years before the attacks on U.S. soil in 2001, repeated his pledge to return to Pakistan before the next elections, due by 2013. He said he did not expect to face arrest if he returns, but has admitted that he fears assassination attempts.

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Osama bin laden dead BOGUS Death Photo

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The image on the left is an ALTERED version of a famous photo of bin Laden.

The White House has NOT released an official death photo of the corpse ... yet....An official has told CNN ... REAL photographs of Osama's body exist ... which show a gunshot wound to the side of his head. The official says due to the wounds, bin Laden's face is "unrecognizable."

Every time the US waves the bloody shirt of Osama, it has a purpose. Obama has been drastically weakened in recent months, and the US has been hurt by murdering Gadaffi’s family members. The mass-killing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, etc. is not going well. The economy is a wreck. Dollar debasement is speeding up. Gasoline prices are high. So…tah-dah…the body of Osama bin Laden for our edification and distration. It may even be true. Certainly the CIA will assure us that its DNA test proves it.
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UPDATE from Darien Sumner:

    In re: Osama bin Laden’s death, here are the first three things that went through my mind:

    1) Congratulations to the United States government on spending only ten years and a few trillion dollars to kill one old man.

    2) This means we get all of our liberties back now, right? And our money? And the thousands of lives lost?
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    3) Ah, now the Libyan war is beginning to make a lot more sense from a political standpoint. The government needed a new bogeyman to chase.

    At least I can count on LRC not to be oozing with “hooray for government murder” pablum like my Twitter feed is overflowing with.

Osama bin Laden was holed up in a two-story house 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy when four helicopters carrying U.S. forces swooped early Monday, killing the world’s most wanted man and leaving his final hiding place in flames, Pakistani officials and a witness said.

They said bin Laden’s guards opened fire from the roof of the compound in the small northwestern town of Abbottabad, and one of the choppers crashed. However U.S. officials said no Americans were hurt in the operation. The sound of at least two explosions rocked Abbottabad as the fighting raged.
Abbottabad is home to three Pakistan army regiments and thousands of military personnel and is dotted with military buildings. The discovery that bin Laden’s was living in an army town in Pakistan raises pointed questions about how he managed to evade capture and even whether Pakistan’s military and intelligence leadership knew of his whereabouts and sheltered him.
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Critics have long accused elements of Pakistan’s security establishment of protecting bin Laden, though Islamabad has always denied this. Army and government officials gave no formal comment Monday.

Most intelligence assessments believed bin Laden was holed up somewhere along the lawless border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan, possibly in a cave and sheltered by loyal tribesmen. That region is remote, homes to soaring mountains and the Pakistan state has little or no presence in much of it.

It was not known how long bin Laden had been in Abbottabad, which is surrounded by hills and is less than half a days drive from the border region with Afghanistan and two hours from the capital, Islamabad.

It was also unclear how much of a role—if any—Pakistani security forces played in the operation. A Pakistani official said the choppers took off from Ghazi air base in northwest Pakistan, where the U.S. army was based to help out in the aftermath of the floods in 2010.

Pakistani officials said a son of bin Laden and three other people were killed.

Other unidentified males were taken by helicopter away from the scene, while four children and two woman left in an ambulance, the official said.

Abbottabad resident Mohammad Haroon Rasheed said the raid happened about 1:15 a.m. local time.

“I heard a thundering sound, followed by heavy firing. Then firing suddenly stopped. Then more thundering, then a big blast,” he said. “In the morning when we went out to see what happened, some helicopter wreckage was lying in an open field.”

He said the house was 100 meters (yards) away from the gate of the Kakul Military Academy, an army run institution where top officers train. A Pakistan intelligence official said the property where bin Laden was staying was 3,000 square feet.

A Pakistani official in the town said fighters on the roof opened fire on the choppers as they came close to the building with rocket propelled grenades. Another official said four helicopters took off from the Ghazi air base in northwest Pakistan.

Last summer, the U.S. army was based in Ghazi to help out in the aftermath of the floods.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.

Pakistan has in the past cooperated with the CIA in arresting al-Qaida suspects on its soil, but relations between its main intelligence agency and the CIA had been very strained in recent months amid tensions over the future of Afghanistan.
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In late January, a senior Indonesian al-Qaida operative, Umar Patek, was arrested at another location in Abbottabad.

News of his arrest only broke in late March. A Pakistani intelligence official said its officers were led to the house where Patek was staying after they arrested an al-Qaida facilitator, Faisal Shahzad, who worked at the post office there.
Osama Bin Laden is dead, President Obama announced Sunday night, in a televised address to the nation. His death was the result of a U.S. operation launched today in Abbottabad, Pakistan, against a compound where bin Laden was believed to be hiding, according to U.S. intelligence. After a firefight, a small team of American forces killed bin Laden and took possession of his body, the president said.

“Tonight I can report to the American people and the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden,” Obama said during brief remarks at the White House.
“Justice has been done,” he said, in comments that marked a formal end of the manhunt for the most visible and emotionally-charged symbol of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The president said U.S. intelligence operatives received a tip in August on bin Laden’s whereabouts, which ultimately led to Sunday’s attack. Obama said he determined last week that the U.S. had enough reliable information to take action; by Sunday morning, he had authorized “a small team of Americans” to conduct an operation targeting bin Laden.

“After a fire fight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body,” the president said. “No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties.”

Obama said the 9/11 attacks that bin Laden and his lieutenants orchestrated nearly 10 years ago remain “the worst attack on the American people in our history” and said the images of the crumbling Twin Towers “are seared into our national memory.”
The president emphasized that Americans “did not choose this fight” against al Qaeda, but rather, “it came to our shores.” He praised U.S. military and intelligence professionals for working “tirelessly to achieve this outcome.” To the families of 9/11 victims, he noted that the U.S. has “never forgotten your loss.”

“Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11,” Obama said. “I know that it has, at times, frayed. Yet today’s achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.”

Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush had targeted bin Laden during their presidencies, and both had failed to either capture him or kill him. The failure to snare bin Laden weighed most heavily, perhaps, on the Bush Administration, which occupied the White House during the 9/11 attacks, and the al Qaeda leader’s killing falls exactly eight years to the day when Bush famously declared “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq.

Bush said in a statement that Obama called him Sunday night to inform him of “the momentous achievement” of bin Laden’s death.

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

Clinton, who was president when the first World Trade Center bombing occurred in 1993, issued a statement calling bin Laden’s death “a profoundly important moment not just for the families of those who lost their lives on 9/11 and in al-Qaida’s other attacks but for people all over the world who want to build a common future of peace, freedom, and cooperation for our children.”

In a conference call with reporters just after President Obama spoke, senior administration officials provided a detailed sketch of how the intelligence on bin Laden’s whereabouts was gathered.

Intelligence officials had been conducting lengthy reconnaissance work prior to receiving their key tip in August. According to senior administration officials, suspected terrorists in custody since 9/11 -- including the attack’s mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- identified a courier who had a close relationship with bin Laden.

“This man was one of the few al Qaeda couriers trusted by bin Laden,” one senior administration official said. “They indicated he might be living with and protecting bin Laden. But for years we were unable to identify his true name or his location. Four years ago we uncovered his identity… About two years ago, after months of persistent effort, we identified areas of Pakistan where the courier and his brother operated. Still, we were unable to pinpoint exactly where they lived due to extensive operational security on their part. The fact that they were being so careful reinforced our belief that we were on the right track.”

When the intelligence community finally pinpointed the courier’s location, they were “shocked by what we saw,” said this official.

The neighborhood in Abbottabad was “relatively affluent with lots of retired military,” this official continued, and was insulated from urban areas or places susceptible to natural disaster and terrorist attacks. The home was “roughly eight times larger than the other homes in the area,” and it was surrounded by 12-to-18-foot-high walls, topped with barbed wire. It had two security gates and a value of roughly $1 million, although it lacked telephone and Internet connections.

An even more telling clue for intelligence operatives: The occupants of the house were burning their trash rather than putting it out for collection.

One senior administration official suggested bin Laden had been staying at the compound for at least six months without moving. Bin Laden was known to have regularly shifted locations to evade capture, so it’s unusual that he chose to stay in on spot for such an extended period.
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More recently, the Obama administration had reduced the number of drone strikes in the area -- while ramping up surveillance -- in an effort to give the al Qaeda leader a heightened sense of safety in his home. Prior to the operation, Obama convened nine meetings with his national security team to review intelligence. According to a White House aide, “Principals met formally an additional five times themselves and their deputies met seven times.”

The president made the decision to undertake the operation at 8:20 a.m. on April 29th in the White House’s Diplomatic Room before he left to survey tornado damage in Alabama. Tom Donilon, his National Security Advisor, prepared the formal orders and convened the principals at 3 p.m. that same day to complete the planning.

The next day, without giving off a hint of the weighty operation being planned, Obama prepared for and delivered his address at the annual White House Correspondent's Association dinner. The next morning he played nine holes of golf.

Final preparations were made on Sunday. At 2 p.m., the president met with top advisers for an hour and half, at which point he returned to the Situation Room for an additional briefing. Twenty minutes after that, he learned that bin Laden had been “tentatively identified.” By 7 p.m. he was told it was highly probable that bin Laden was at the compound. By 8:30 p.m., he received an additional briefing. He signed off on the attack after that.

No other intelligence operatives in other countries were told of the attack before it occurred -- including Pakistani operatives -- according to administration officials. Vice President Joseph Biden informed congressional leadership of the attack shortly before it took place, aides on the Hill told the Huffington Post.

Details about the fight itself are still difficult to come by. According to local reports in Pakistan, a helicopter involved in the attack had a mechanical problem and crashed.

U.S. forces intentionally destroyed the remainder of the wreckage to reduce signs of their presence in the area , according to NBC and other media reports. Two helicopters remained to provide cover for Joint Special Operations Command forces; in addition, there was a predator drone.

The fight lasted only 40 minutes and was described by a senior administration official as a “surgical raid” conducted by a Navy Seals unit. Bin Laden's adult son was killed, as were two of his couriers and a woman being used as a human shield. Bin Laden himself “did resist the assault force,” a senior administration official said. Reports on Sunday night said the terrorist leader was ultimately shot in the head.

Officials warned that in the aftermath of the attack, Americans should be on alert for a reprisal from al Qaeda. However, one official added, there were “no specific threats" as of Sunday night. ABC News reported that authorities plan to bury bin Laden’s body at sea in order to leave no definitive location for his final resting place. It will be done, an official added, “in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition." Hours later, CNN reported that the burial had taken place.

"Americans understand the costs of war," Obama said toward the end of his remarks. "Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies." Obama   ,  Osama Bin Laden  ,  Bin Laden Dead  ,  Osama  ,  Osama Bin Laden Dead  ,  Osama Dead  ,   World News, osama bin laden, cnn, osama bin laden dead body, osama bin laden killed, bin lade, cnn osama bin laden dead pictures

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Yahoo how good grows: Ripples of kindness

someone could post "I am placing the envelope in my closet in a shelter for the homeless, do you?" or "I paid the toll for the car behind me, do you?" The message will appear Yahoo! person in this state can be shared via social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, and will be posted on an interactive world map on the campaign website kindness.yahoo.com.

Buy a stranger a bus ticket. Donate duplicate tools for a neighborhood garden. Abandon a residence card for an overworked teacher. Do something nice and then connect to the share via Yahoo, Twitter and Facebook.

Yahoo! want to encourage you to do something good and we hope your online sharing sparks others to do good works so well. Newly launched Yahoo! rings of kindness is the place to do this.

User John bought coffee for the local fire fighers held the elevator door for other user Rahkee, and uses N Mc fed lean stray cat. You can browse thousands of recent acts of kindness and add your own. Your visual ripple of kindness "is more than the others read your idea and make a similar action.

To test this model, Yahoo first took to the streets. On the day of the most commercial of food this year - the day before Thanksgiving - the team paid the grocery bills of foreigners.

The response was very positive. Business Wire has reported that one of these recipients - Department of the employee parking and traffic - has said he will not give any tickets for the final day. Other recipients wanted to continue forward acts of kindness as well.

Yahoo has designated the day of the acts of kindness:

City: free port select people at the post office in the busiest shipping day of the year: Dec. 13.

Santa Photos: The payment of photos of people, the busiest day of the year then Santa's shopping malls: December 18.

 Travel expenses: Purchase of human rights baggage at airports designated as the busiest travel day: December 23.

Your single good deed, big or small, can inspire others and cause a ripple effect of kindness that continues to grow as others join in. Start something today — the more people who take action, the larger your ripple will become.

You and Yahoo!: It's How Good Grows..
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson...
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
—Mark Twain...
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
—Plato..
“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”
—Annie Lennox...
“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
—Princess Diana

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Suspected US missile strike kills 25 people, including 5 children and 4 women, in northwest Pakistan

 (epakistantimes....) The Pakistani intelligence officials said a U.S. drone fired a radical Pakistani-controlled areas near the Afghan border, and interceptor missiles on Friday, killing 25 people. The day before the strike, the army chief condemns this attack and can deteriorate strengthen strained relations between Washington and Islamabad.

Ten rockets hit the North Waziristan Spinwam, Taliban fighters in the region of the United States to get to the house in Afghanistan across the border from the village of houses and NATO forces, and international al-Qaeda terrorists, three intelligence officials said.

They said they believed three children and two wives to be dead. There is no way to immediately independently verified.

The United States regularly fire rockets at the border area 21 / 2 years old, but no official recognition from the Central Intelligence Agency to run the program. U.S. officials rarely comment, but in the concrete strike, said general mandate to strike at militants.

Silence means that the United States the source of information, and usually strike Pakistani intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Has not been confirmed their accounts, because it prohibits access to the border areas.

These attacks and an already tense situation between the two allies, and the source, at least on the surface.

GM is the only way the United States can reach directly by hiding in Afghanistan, the Taliban movement in Pakistan, some allegedly critical to the success in Afghanistan. This dilemma becomes more serious in view of the United States hopes to begin withdrawing troops this summer.

Pakistani leadership has condemned the military and political publicly missile attack, but considers that the penalties. This policy so that their hostile feelings for the United States is running a number of isolation in a strong state.

But he said it cut ties to a new low after the United States of America, and Central Intelligence Agency in January this year shot and killed two Pakistani contractors, and said that he tried to rob. Procession rocket attack, killing dozens of reports of innocent tribes also angered Palestinian leaders.

Pakistani officials say they now want to limit the use of U.S. air strikes, to give them more information. But some U.S. officials in Washington and Islamabad and said they would continue despite objections from Pakistan, some analysts believe that in the domestic political consumption or to extract more concessions to Washington.

He said CIA officials to honor an agreement to target geographically, "the Fund" already agreed upon the region and Pakistan, but Pakistan will not notice any strike, who declined to be named a strategic decision made to discuss the sensitive issue a statement.

Taliban factions in Afghanistan-Pakistan relations are still tense and there have been reported for the broadcast.

During his visit here, Admiral Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the United States, accused of keeping with the Haqqani network, an important Taliban factions in North Waziristan, a link to the service of Pakistani military intelligence operation.

Islamabad has denied that the support group, but many analysts and U.S. officials suspect that Pakistan may be trying to maintain the peg qanis right, so that can be used to retain influence in Afghanistan with the means to them - to keep the barrier on his main rival in India - United States to leave.

And officials from both countries to raise the level of discourse, and say they want to continue their partnership for the same. Washington needs Pakistan's support to achieve success in Afghanistan, and Pakistan is largely dependent on U.S. aid civilian and military.

Also on Friday, a security official said hundreds of insurgents attacked a checkpoint in the north-west Pakistan, killing security forces 14 - the continuing strength of the rebels, despite a military attack on its performance.

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Oasis of the Seas: Royal Caribbean

The Oasis of the Seas, was launched late in 2009, and along with her sister ship, the Allure of the Seas, she is the world's largest cruise ship. The size of the Oasis allowed Royal Caribbean to include numerous venues never before seen on a cruise ship, such as the 700-seat Oasis of the Seas Aqua Theater. 

This water show theater is found on deck 6, at the aft end of the Oasis of the Sea's Boardwalk, one of seven neighborhoods on the ship.The Aqua Theater has both a daytime water show called "Splish Splash", and a nighttime show called "Oasis of Dreams. United States, "Royal Caribbean" including the largest cruise company, is the world's largest cruise ship "Ocean Oasis" (Oasis of the Seas) Cruise will be the world's largest super-cruise, which has 16 decks and 2000 cabin, can carry 6,000 passengers, the ship also has a large shopping mall, numerous bars restaurants, the size of a football field, and rock climbing wall, outdoor amphitheater and other sports facilities.
"Ocean Oasis" in November 2009 for her maiden voyage into the sea, when it is at sea, it is like a "travel the city." "Ocean Oasis" cost 700 million pounds, it is 360 meters wide and 47 meters, 72 meters high, a displacement of 22 million tons, than the "Titanic" 3 times bigger than the current world's largest cruise ship " Freedom of the Seas "also weighed 6 tons. It is understood that a cruise ship drifting at sea will be the Florida city as a port, the implementation of the Caribbean east and west routes, will launch the inaugural trip for 4 nights.
"Ocean Oasis" will no doubt be another cruise ship construction in the history of a miracle in the history to "the largest and most luxurious" cruise does not claim more than the famous "Titanic" is one of them.
According to information, when the "Titanic" total length of about 269 meters, 28 meters wide, 11 stories tall and weighs 46,000 tons, costing a total cost of 75 million pounds. Maiden voyage in April 1912, carrying 2224 passengers, people. In the last century, such a large cruise is also unprecedented, no wonder the builder called it "Titanic", will never be confident giant ship sinking at sea. But, today's "Ocean Oasis" compared to "Titanic" is simply dwarfed. Only from the tonnage of sense, "Oasis" is the "Titanic" 5 times, and its length and height are "Titanic" unmatched

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Raleigh, NC: Massive Tornadoes On Ground

For the third consecutive day. A tornado outbreak in the United States with major winter strong move to the beginning of the Atlantic. Outbreak Tornado today is concentrated in the Carolinas, especially South Carolina, from all central and eastern, central and eastern North Carolina, Virginia State and Southern Highway Richmond Lynchburg and ham. Hampton / Contract East Fork area.

This watch is described. Storm Prediction Center, a very dangerous situation that occurs in these areas may be significant tornadoes, and severe the associated long-term monitoring.

Journal as a condition Bad weather is part of a group of blocks of life. If you publish any cheap political / social when compared to the affected area of ​​photography you may HRed all of us, regardless. Political lobbying their Remember and respect. Indeed, said.
Raleigh, North Carolina, emergency tornado Directly into the center of the storm. Large wedge tornado in Raleigh damage caused by better reporting district and department stores have. Are reported destroyed, this is actually, really bad, and WRAL has been stagnant air on the news networks have given enough to cut their fucking star. In this document he created as FishOutofWater. Focus on a few days ago, a dispute the decision of the Supreme Court in monitoring. Dynamics of severe weather and other parameters, the first tornado, showing the formation of the developing storm tornadic, good atmosphere more than the amount. The atmosphere is ripe for a tornado Although the atmosphere. More conducive to high-value areas than in the tornado of course not limited to these areas. If you are in the vicinity. Area, side by side and see you at risk.

This indicates that the end goal. Climate conducive to producing supercell thunderstorms. The key "2", the highest card, so this is a 16 to 8 times more than necessary for the severe environment of supercell thunderstorms more energy. Central North Carolina in United States, David, Ron and Davidson County, tornado warning, the next hour or so. Rotating radar in North Lexington comb my phone has been hovering in the sun. Out of North Carolina for the rotation Hawks yellow.New tornado warning area. In a whirlwind Xileiyifu 50 miles northeast hours. I have a friend in Raeford, home visits, the land is beautiful, you never see the tornado coming. In many areas of the Carolinas, a question - do not wait until you see the tornado because it's too late.

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Atlas Shrugged Movie

To make the opening, today, here instead of Premiere PJTV DC (United States santims not ordinary). The whole question is: What is freedom notes Roger Ebert think? So, you think:

    And OK. For example, the novel, you agree to Ayn ​​Rand, objèktivism, or a liberal, and you wait vivman film. People, you will find a desepsyon. This is not just a movie not agree with you, but in a Aderans, mode black. This will help if you like, you know, entertainment?

    The scene of several films of this structure: (1) appears for dialogue and exchange of environmental clubby, as his company Jagon Beverage (2) Chemennfè, and time, (3) drive through the city destroying buildings arive, (4) description of the town (5) Beauty of Colorado. There is also a love scene, it is shown in the hip, but I'm not just getting into the ear. The man puts his shirt. This power can chokan Liberal, I think, as those who collect the rumpy-pumpy.

Any revision of the film characteristics in terms of "rumpy-pumpy" It's still hot. A sudden: "I do, but reviewing the others I've seen, on the basis of this that I doubt him place. He buys less noise is not a ideolojik to make decisions in a beautiful behavior is dedikasyon hours unless you make a dezi objèktivist Pelerinaj Mecca, a film I do not know why you will rise. In fact, even critics of the policy of good layout, promote Rand: Kurt Loder, and PJ O'Rourke, who remains as endiferan repwoche movie entertainment, but the power of understanding messages. (See No. Because awondi consult a person who is most antouzyas). Ballon when Hot remain faithful to only one of every opportunity to see them? I accepted religion.

Tweeter is very track last night and a kind of discussion this morning reflects the progress of Neil Gaiman fan is about buzzing. HBO "American Gods" adaptation, while John Favreau a new answer "is aware of cowboys. And foreign" for example, Ayn Rand and all a twitter account comments and for some it seems to say film about "Atlas shrug."

And no amount of troops after two addressed, as Jock said, so he now has to draw, and R. Stevens said if the Caped Crusader we all are maxed retweets a rundown of these and other day jump after.

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