NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said the alliance will continue its "mission" in Afghanistan despite the [alleged] recent killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

Rasmussen hailed the death of bin Laden and said NATO will continue its presence in Afghanistan in an attempt to prevent the war-torn country from becoming a "terrorist haven" again, AFP reported. The NATO chief's remarks came after US President Barack Obama announced the killing of bin Laden on Monday. The world's most wanted man was [allegedly] killed on Sunday during a US military operation on his compound in Pakistani town of Abbottabad in northeast of Islamabad. Many observers believe [hope] bin Laden's killing will trigger a violent reaction across the world where al-Qaeda has headquarters, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco and Algeria.

Osama bin Laden's body allegedly dumped at sea

The official says it would have been difficult to find a country willing to take the remains of the terrorist leader, so the U.S. chose a water burial.

After Bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for the body to be buried within 24 hours, the official said. Finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult, the official said. So the U.S. decided to bury him at sea.

The official, who spoke Monday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters, did not immediately say where that occurred.

● Bin Laden “Buried at Sea” – Talk About Going Overboard, This Sets a New Standard
● Obama Claims US Special Forces Killed Bin Laden In Abbottabad, Evidence/Body Dumped In Sea
● Governments ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag Terror
● YEARS OF DECEIT: US OPENLY ACCEPTS BIN LADEN LONG DEAD
● [From the Memory Hole:] Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden

[Editor's Comment:] First of all: Osama was not behind the 911 conspiracy. The US and Israeli governments were behind this terror attack. This is a fact. Plus, Osama was a CIA asset. He may have outlived his usefulness to the US years ago, well before this new fairy tale about American bravery was launched yesterday. Second: Osama bin Laden has been dead for years. His ghost -his presence in the mainstream media- was becoming ridiculous and a story that very few people believed in anyway. Third: We take note of the fact that this fairy tale comes right after the US launched a criminal attack on another “evildoer” (the son of one) in Libya, as if to lend a veneer of reality to the improbable Osama hit in Pakistan. Fourth: Where's the body? They now allege Osama has been buried in the sea and according to “Islamic tradition” to boot. This is highly unlikely. Muslims generally don't bury their dead at sea. More importantly, the US would have had everything to gain from being able to show us the body of bin Laden. - This news story is a series of lies from one end to the other.

Benazir Bhutto Confirms Omar Sheikh Murdered Osama bin-Laden

Please pay attention at the 3:50 and in particular at the 6:07 minute marks

[02 Nov 07] "In an interview only months before her death, Bhutto, possibly unintentionally, admitted that Bin Laden had been killed. She refers to Omar Sheikh as "the man who killed Osama Bin Laden"

Israeli jet fighters have reportedly conducted drills at a military base in Iraq in order to strike targets inside Iran.

A considerable number of Israeli warplanes were seen at al-Asad base in Iraq, reported a source close to prominent Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sader's group. The aircraft reportedly included F-15, F-16, F-18, F-22, and KC-10 jet fighters. The warplanes carried out their week-long exercises at nights, the same source added. The drills were reportedly aimed at preparing to strike Iran's air defense systems, disrupt Iran's radars and attack targets deep inside Iran. Iraqi officials had not been notified of the exercises, which were conducted in collaboration with the US military. The United States maintains numerous bases in Iraq, and the Baghdad government is not involved in any of the military deployments taking place there.

Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz announced today that his government will stop all transfers of cash owed to the Palestinian Authority, starting with $89 million in funds they were due to send in the next week.

The move came in the wake of Israeli threats to stop transfers as punishment for the reconciliation deal reached last month between Fatah and Hamas. Steinitz said that the “burden of proof” was on the Palestinians to prove that any money wouldn’t be used for "terror". Under current agreements, the Israeli government collects a number of taxes for the PA and is supposed to transfer them regularly. In practice, this cash has been withheld whenever Israeli officials objected to internal policy moves.

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli soldiers on Sunday assaulted two Palestinian workers trying to enter Jerusalem near the Zayem checkpoint, at the eastern entrance to Jerusalem.

Mahmoud Abu Sarhan, 25, said he lost consciousness and fell from a cliff after an Israeli forces officer threw a rock at his head. The Bethlehem resident sustained serious head injuries in the attack, a Ma'an correspondent said. Ali Mansour Abu Sarhan, 18, said he sustained bruises to his hand when he fell while being chased by police.

"We were a group of workers trying to overstep the separation wall not far from the Zayem checkpoint around 4:00 in the morning. As we started to climb the wall, two soldiers surprised us and so we jumped back and started to run toward the foot of the mountain where we tried to hide," said 22-year-old worker Salah Sarhan. "After a while, the soldiers appeared from above and started to pelt us with rocks, so we had to run again," he continued. "While we ran, a rock hurled from a close distance hit Mahmoud’s head from the right side. He fell at once facing the ground and rolled for a few meters on the uneven ground. We continued to run away and decided to come back to check up on Mahmoud only after the soldiers left. "We found him unconscious, we took him to the nearest vehicle to take him to hospital."

George W Bush embarked on the casual snuffing out of uncounted, unique, human lives in majority muslim populations, chillingly called it a "crusade". President Barack Hussein Nobel Obama did not go that far, he left that to the French Minister of the Interior, Claude Gueant who, on 21 March, praised President Nicholas Sarkozy for having: "headed the crusade".

For the "change we can believe in" president, reducing another ancient land of eye-watering archeological gems, massive oil and water resources and a population of six million - little more than Scotland - it is, reportedly, a "turd sandwich".

Humanity is not "at the crossroads". It is on the Cross, scourged, nailed (in all senses) and utterly inconsequential, in face of murdering, marauding, looting Empire.

Angry pro-regime demonstrators took to the streets of Tripoli on Sunday following the announcement that a Saturday NATO air strike killed Saif al-Arab al-Gadhafi and three of Moammar Gadhafi’s grandchildren.

The protesters attacked numerous Western embassies, including the British and Italian ones. They also attacked a UN building, prompting the UN to evacuate all foreign staff. Britain summoned the Libyan ambassador over the destruction. The Gadhafi government expressed “regret” at the destruction caused by the protesters. Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said police on the scene were overpowered by the sheer size of the rallies, and he insisted that the regime would repair all the damage caused in the attacks.

Incredibly, this was not the first time Saif al-Arab was bombed by the West. In 1986 he was wounded in US strikes which killed his adopted baby sister. US officials cheered the latest attacks, with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) saying the strike was a “good use of the mandate.” Saif al-Arab held no position in the government and lived mostly in Germany over the past decade.

AWIP: A US/Nato air strike in Tripoli has killed the son of Colonel Gadaffi

In its bungled strike against Colonel Gaddafi that reportedly killed one of his sons and three of his grandchildren, Nato has wildly exceeded its United Nations mandate. It has not only taken up the role of a protagonist in the killing of civilians, but it also appears to have become an active combatant in an undeclared and illegal war against the Libyan government. In this, Nato is now mirroring the illegality and immorality of the Libyan authorities it affects to want to interdict – and in so doing it has taken on the dirty work for a diffident United States.

And dirty, dirty work it is. Make no mistake, Nato's strategy violates international law, shows callous disregard for the innocent, and prosecutes a war approved by no international body, declared by no national parliament and sanctioned by no moral code.