O pagamento da taxa condominal é um assunto delicado que requer cuidados redobrados da administração do condomínio, já que há uma série de regras previstas em lei e na própria convenção que devem ser respeitadas. O quadro “Meu condomínio tem solução”, do SPTV, mostrou nesta quarta-feira (4) dois condomínios em diferentes regiões da cidade de São Paulo que tratam a dívida dos condôminos de forma diferente.
Na Zona Norte de São Paulo, no Parque São Domingos, a regra é outra: o morador em débito pode ter o abastecimento de água reduzido em até 80% até que os valores sejam pagos ao condomínio. A decisão foi aprovada em assembleia e só é possível porque cada apartamento tem um hidrômetro particular.
A síndica e o subsíndico dizem que a medida foi um sucesso. Em cinco anos, a inadimplência é bem menor - caiu de 35% para 5%. ( podendo encher o rabo dos sindicos de grana a vontade! alguem já viu o dinheiro da divida paga? diminiu a mensalidade ? )
Em um condomínio em Cidade Líder, na Zona Leste, moram 504 famílias. O condomínio custa R$ 300. Entretanto, 60 apartamentos estão com o pagamento atrasado. “A gente tem uma arrecadação e ela diminui. A gente tem que pagar as dívidas que são fixas”, conta a síndica, Patrícia Benetti.
Por causa dos inadimplentes, quem está com o condomínio em dia corre o risco de pagar uma taxa extra, o rateio. Além disso, algumas obras de melhoria ficam paradas. “A gente tem outros custos. Temos serviços terceirizados e tudo tem que ser pago em primeiro lugar. As obras ficam para depois”, fala o subsíndico Paulo Policárpio Roque.
Para tentar reduzir a inadimplência, a administração tenta encontrar soluções. “Eu e o grupo gestor viramos a madrugada tentando achar soluções de economia. Em um ano, a gente conseguiu reduzir em 42%. Ainda é alto, mas reduzimos com plantões, chamadas em elevadores”, relata a síndica.
O condomínio também leva um advogado para negociar com os endividados. Quem não acerta as dívidas não pode usar os quiosques com churrasqueira, salão de festas e academia. “Já que você não paga, porque você vai dar uma festa? Se tem dinheiro para isso, paga o condomínio”, reclama a aposentada Nancy Almeida de Oliveira. (claro porque quem tá fudido não tem direito a nada , VC ESTA MORTO PARA O MUNDO , O ALUGUEL DO SALÃO JÁ É QUeSTIONAVEL , VC COMPROU OU ALUGOU O IMOVEL COM O SALÃO MAS TEM QUE PAGAR PRA USAR, SE A FAMILIA QUER DAR UMA FESTA PARA UMA CRIANÇA COM BOLO E GUARANA NÃO PODE , PQ VC É PoBRE E DEVEDOR TEM QUE QUEIMAR NO MARMORE DO INFERNO , SEGUNDO ESSA APOSENTADA QUE DEVE TER AMI$$$ADE COm $$$INDICO, depois um infeliz mata num assalto uma velha dessa a gente ainda tem pena! Ai está o preconceito escancarado com quem já está ferrado, isso pode ou gera processo com direito a indenização?, ai essa velha vai se encolher e dizer que é uma pobre aposentada ... o mundo dá voltas e até as pedras se encontram )
( a primeira providencia de ex sindico é sumir para esconder o que ganhou $$$$$ durante a gestão , muito raro o sindico honesto e que permanece onde foi sindico, pode procurar ! O cara ganha super faturando tudo : reformas , pinturas, contratação de pessoal , aqueles panfletos que aparecem de pizzaria e etc... ele , o sindico, cobra e não é pouco ,para deixar o pessoal por na sua porta, e vai longe o quanto essa nova profissão ganha por fora , um escandalo!)
Rapaz de 25 anos foi baleado na frente do pai na Zona Sul de SP. Assaltantes fugiram com celulares e são procurados pela polícia.
Juliana CardilliDo G1 SP
Padrasto contou que mãe de jovem morto está sob efeito de remédios (Foto: Juliana Cardilli/G1)
O pai e a mãe de Thiago Castello Branco Nogueira, de 25 anos, morto durante um assalto na noite desta terça-feira (3), na região do Campo Limpo, Zona Sul de São Paulo, estavam sob o efeito de remédios na manhã desta quarta-feira (4), segundo informou o motorista Roberto Manoel da Silva, de 39 anos, que foi padrasto do rapaz. Nogueira estava com um amigo e o pai em um estúdio de tatuagem quando foi abordado pelos assaltantes na Avenida das Belezas. O pai presenciou o crime.
Os pais do jovem são separados – ele morava com a mãe. Na noite de terça, foi com um amigo e o pai, empresário, ao estúdio de tatuagem. Enquanto o amigo fazia o desenho, o empresário ficou descansando no carro. O crime aconteceu quando Thiago foi chamar o pai e os dois voltaram para o estúdio.
“Ele era extrovertido, não tinha inimigos, não tinha vícios, queria voltar para a faculdade de tecnologia da informação, que tinha trancado. Trabalhava com o pai, não dava trabalho”, contou Silva, que morou com Thiago e com a mãe dele por seis anos. O casal havia se separado há cerca de um mês, mas o motorista foi chamado pela mãe do rapaz na noite desta terça, após o crime.
“O amigo do Thiago logo ligou avisando. Ela [a mãe do rapaz] foi para o hospital, um vizinho levou. Ela me ligou e eu fui para lá. Era meia-noite e meia quando os médicos chamaram e informaram que ele não resistiu”, contou o padrasto do jovem. “Ela [a mãe] tomou calmante para se acalmar. Ela não consegue falar, não caiu a ficha ainda.” O pai de Thiago ficou em estado de choque, se culpa pelo que ocorreu e precisou ser sedado, segundo informações dadas por um tio do rapaz a Silva.
Estúdio O tatuador e cabeleireiro Cristiano Nery Galbes, dono do estúdio onde as vítimas estavam, achou que pai e filho haviam sido baleados quando ouviu os dois disparos. “Eles sempre vêm aqui, é uma família alegre, bacana, divertida. Os dois têm a mesma tatuagem. O Thiago saiu para falar com o pai, daqui a pouco ouvimos dois disparos, quando saímos ele já estava caído no chão, ajudei a colocar dentro do carro do pai. Foi só o barulho, tanto é que para mim eu pensei que tinha acertado os dois”, contou ele, que não chegou a ver os assaltantes.
Segundo tatuador, pai e filho tinham o mesmo desenho no corpo (Foto: Juliana Cardilli/G1)
O tatuador acompanhou a família até o hospital e estava junto com o pai de Thiago quando os médicos comunicaram a morte do rapaz. Agora, tem medo de continuar trabalhando em seu estúdio. “Eu não dormi essa noite, nunca vi uma coisa tão terrível. Aqui a gente sempre fica aberto até meia-noite. Tanto é que agora os clientes estão ligando, falando para fechar mais cedo. Aqui é muito perigoso. Vou fechar no máximo 19h. É ruim porque acaba caindo a nossa renda”, afirmou.
De acordo com o delegado Luiz Augusto Romani de Oliveira, do 37º Distrito Policial, no Campo Limpo, a polícia quer tentar encontrar imagens que possam mostrar o crime ou ter gravado a fuga dos suspeitos. Os policiais também estão em busca de testemunhas que possam ter presenciado o crime
De acordo com a família, o corpo de Thiago será enterrado no Cemitério Parque dos Girassóis, em Parelheiros, na Zona Sul de São Paulo. O horário ainda não foi definido.
Jean Wyllys vantagem de se dizer gay, falando sobre o deputado
O PRIMEIRO PAREDÃO DELE, ELE LOGO GRITOU : FUI INDICADO POR SER GAY, E NINGUEM , NEM O PUBLICO SABIA ! E OLHA ONDE O ESPERTINHO CHEGOU , ELE DEVE TER SEUS MERITOS MAS CONSEGIU APELANDO PARA A HOMOSEXUALIDADE, ACHO A ATITUDE COVARDE, POIS ELE TINHA CERTEZA DO QUE ESTAVA FAZENDO !
A vendedora Maria Renata Pereira Gomes, 31, foi presa no início da noite desta terça-feira sob suspeita de participar de um esquema de golpes em lojas de venda de joias em São Paulo.
Segundo informações do Deic (Departamento de Investigações sobre Crime Organizado) da Polícia Civil, Gomes estava com documentos, cartões magnéticos e folhas de cheques de diversas instituições financeiras, além de dois relógios de ouro no momento da prisão, na região da Praça da Sé, centro de São Paulo. Além deste material, foram apreendidos um Fiat Stilo e um Volkswagen Golf usados por ela.
Aos policiais, a vendedora disse que trabalha com revenda de objetos em ouro e alegou que os documentos seriam utilizados para abertura de contas bancários de supostos clientes.
O caso está sendo investigado pela 1ª Delegacia Antipirataria do Deic
dia das mães esta chegando : PRA ONDE VAI TODO FRUTO DE APREENSÃO NESSE PAÍS ?
Sem deixar de se declarar muito entusiasmada com os desafios de seu mandato de senadora, Marta Suplicy enumerou, em apresentação ontem à bancada estadual do PT-SP, os elementos que a favoreceriam na disputa interna pela candidatura petista à prefeitura da capital em 2012, informa o "Painel" da Folha, editado por Renata Lo Prete (íntegra disponível para assinantes do jornal e do UOL).
O Ministério Público Federal no Distrito Federal vai à justiça para que sejam cancelados os passaportes diplomáticos dos quatro filhos e três netos do ex-presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
A Procuradoria já havia considerado irregulares os passaportes concedidos a dois dias do fim do mandato do petista, em dezembro do ano passado, em caráter sigiloso.
Em ofício encaminhado ao Itamaraty, assinado pelo procurador-geral da República, Roberto Gurgel, o MPF disse que pediria à Justiça a anulação dos documentos se eles não forem devolvidos em 30 dias.
O prazo terminou anteontem e o Itamaraty encaminhou ofício com sua resposta, escrita pelo ministro das Relações Exteriores, Antonio Patriota, informando que os passaportes não foram "recolhidos", nem "devolvidos" pelos parentes de Lula.
Na avaliação do Itamaraty, os passaportes foram emitidos dentro de uma "lógica jurídica" e, portanto, seria uma "incongruência" o ministério apontar, a partir de agora, irregularidades na concessão do documento.
Após a Folha revelar no dia 6 de janeiro que os passaportes haviam sido concedidos em caráter excepcional, por suposto "interesse do país", o governo resolveu alterar a lei que regia a concessão de passaportes diplomáticos.
Agora, a emissão do documento só pode ser feita por meio de "solicitação formal" e "fundamentada", com a publicidade do "Diário Oficial da União".
Entre 2006 e 2010, foram concedidos 328 passaportes diplomáticos sob a alegação de "interesse do país". O Ministério Público avaliou, até agora, que somente os passaportes concedidos aos filhos e netos de Lula foram dados de forma irregular.
enquanto faz a dança do ventre hahahahah , o povo esta defecando dinheiro mesmo ! o que sera que ele fez de bom para a LG, enqunto estava no governo, dar essa grana para ele?
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O ex-presidente Lula disse a aliados que aceitou uma oferta de US$ 500 mil (cerca de R$ 790 mil) para fazer palestra na Coreia do Sul, a convite da multinacional LG.
Se confirmar a presença, ele ultrapassará o primeiro milhão de dólares em quatro meses fora do governo, segundo cálculos de petistas.
Carlos Cecconello - 2.mar.11/Folhapress
Lula em sua primeira palestra como ex-presidente, contratada por fabricante de eletrônicos LG
Os convites de bancos e grandes empresas têm impulsionado a agenda internacional do ex-presidente.
Recordista de viagens internacionais no governo, ele visitou quatro países entre janeiro e abril de 2003, primeiro ano de sua gestão. Neste ano, esteve em dez países no período --aumento de 150%.
O ex-ministro Luiz Dulci confirmou o convite da LG, mas não comentou o cachê de R$ 500 mil.
A assessoria de Lula não informa o valor das palestras. "É segredo de Estado", disse Paulo Okamoto, sócio do petista na empresa LILS.
Procurada desde 20 de abril, a direção da LG disse que não poderia confirmar o evento na Coreia do Sul.
Segundo petistas, Lula já acumulou US$ 700 mil nas primeiras três palestras remuneradas no exterior. O cachê mais alto foi o da Telefonica (cerca de US$ 300 mil) por palestra em Londres. Também foi a Washington, a convite da Microsoft, e a Acapulco, a convite da Associação dos Bancos do México.
Com o evento na Coreia, ainda sem data, sua receita em moeda estrangeira chegaria a US$ 1,2 milhão.
A LG foi a primeira a contratá-lo para uma palestra no Brasil, em março, com cachê de R$ 200 mil. Hoje Lula falará a investidores convidados do Bank of America Merril Lynch, em São Paulo.
Nos eventos, Lula costuma citar feitos de seu governo e o aumento da presença brasileira no cenário mundial.
CBS chairman Les Moonves said Tuesday that "Two and a Half Men" producers are working to retool the show after Charlie Sheen's infamous departure, according to a new report.
Warner Bros., the production company for the hit comedy, is "exploring different ideas on how to do the show," Moonves told reporters on an earnings call.
"We don't know what the resolution is right now. There are obviously a lot of moving pieces," he said, adding "we're sort of waiting on them."
In late April, media reports circulated that the show's creator, Chuck Lorre, was revamping the series to move forward without the disgraced star. Changes were said to include adding a new cast member and giving a bigger role to current co-star Jon Cryer.
News of the potential developments led Sheen to launch a tirade against Lorre, who he is also suing for wrongful termination.
"No one cares about your feeble show without me," Sheen wrote in a letter to Lorre, calling the producer a "chicken sh*t," "pathetic AA loser," "A-hole p*ssy loser," and "spineless rat."
The 45-year-old actor, who was booted from the show in March, also said his legal challenge against Lorre would bring the showbiz veteran to "a state of surrender" and predicted the revamped show would be a total failure.
"You've been warned. Reap the whirl-wind you cockroach, reap it," he wrote, adding "NO CHARLIE SHEEN. NO SHOW."
Osama bin Laden was unarmed when he was confronted by U.S. commandos at his Pakistani hideout but tried to resist the assault, the White House said Tuesday. (May 3)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Osama bin Laden was unarmed when Navy SEALs burst into his room and shot him to death, the White House said Tuesday, a change in the official account that raised questions about whether the U.S. ever planned to capture the terrorist leader alive.
The Obama administration was still debating whether to release gruesome images of bin Laden's corpse, balancing efforts to demonstrate to the world that he was dead against the risk that the images could provoke further anti-U.S. sentiment. But CIA Director Leon Panetta said a photograph would be released.
"I don't think there was any question that ultimately a photograph would be presented to the public," Panetta said in an interview with "NBC Nightly News." Asked again later by The Associated Press, he said, "I think it will."
Asked about the final confrontation with bin Laden, Panetta said: "I don't think he had a lot of time to say anything." The CIA chief told PBS NewsHour, "It was a firefight going up that compound. ... I think it - this was all split-second action on the part of the SEALs."
Panetta said that bin Laden made "some threatening moves that were made that clearly represented a clear threat to our guys. And that's the reason they fired."
The SEALs were back in the U.S. at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington for debriefing on the raid, lawmakers said after meeting with Panetta.
The question of how to present bin Laden's death to the world is a difficult balancing act for the White House. President Barack Obama told Americans that justice had been done, but the White House also declared that bin Laden's body was treated respectfully and sent to rest in a somber ceremony at sea.
Panetta underscored on Tuesday that Obama had given permission to kill the terror leader: "The authority here was to kill bin Laden," he said. "And obviously, under the rules of engagement, if he had in fact thrown up his hands, surrendered and didn't appear to be representing any kind of threat, then they were to capture him. But they had full authority to kill him."
For the long-term legacy of the most successful counterterrorism operation in U.S. history, the fact that bin Laden was unarmed is unlikely to matter much to the Americans he declared war against. President George W. Bush famously said he wanted bin Laden "dead or alive," and the CIA's top counterterrorism official once promised to bring bin Laden's head back on a stake.
Yet just 24 hours before the White House acknowledged that bin Laden had been unarmed, Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said: "If we had the opportunity to take bin Laden alive, if he didn't present any threat, the individuals involved were able and prepared to do that."
Will it matter around the world? Some may try to make much of it in Pakistan and elsewhere.
"This country has gone through a lot of trauma in terms of violence, and whether or not he was armed is not going to make a difference to people who were happy to see the back of him," said Mosharraf Zaidi, a political analyst and columnist in Pakistan. "The majority have a mistrust of America and this will reinforce their mistrust of America."
Others may not even believe it.
"I think he was definitely armed and he was firing on U.S. commandos," said Hamid Mir, an anchor for Geo Television. "Osama told me many times that he will not surrender; he claimed that he will fight and I think he was fighting."
In Washington, the issue will become part of the political debate over Obama's terror policies. His national security team had offered differing accounts of what would happen if the U.S. ever had a chance to kill or capture bin Laden. And Republicans have criticized the president for shutting down the CIA's controversial network of overseas prisons and trying to close Guantanamo Bay, moves they say have left the U.S. with few options for interrogating terrorists.
On Monday, the White House said bin Laden was involved in a firefight, which is why the SEALs killed rather than captured him. On Tuesday, however, White House press secretary Jay Carney said bin Laden did not fire on the SEALs. He said bin Laden resisted but offered no specifics. Bin Laden's wife rushed the SEALs when they stormed the room, Carney said, and was shot in the calf
"Bin Laden was then shot and killed," Carney said. "He was not armed."
That was one of many official details that have changed in the two days since bin Laden was killed. A White House transcript misidentified which of bin Laden's sons was killed — it was Khalid, not Hamza. Officials incorrectly said bin Laden's wife died in gunfire while serving as his human shield. That was actually bin Laden's aide's wife, and she was just caught in cross fire, the White House said Tuesday.
Carney attributed those discrepancies to the fog of war, saying the information was coming in bit by bit and was still being reviewed.
"We provided a great deal of information with great haste in order to inform you, and through you the American public, about the operation and how it transpired and the events that took place there in Pakistan," Carney told reporters Tuesday. "And obviously some of the information came in piece by piece and is being reviewed and updated and elaborated on."
Five people were killed in the raid, officials said: Bin Laden; his son; his most trusted courier, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, and al-Kuwaiti's wife and brother.
After killing the world's most wanted terrorist, the SEAL team in just minutes quickly swept bin Laden's compound for useful intelligence, making off with a cache of computer equipment and documents. The CIA was hurriedly setting up a task force to review the material from the highest level of al-Qaida's leadership.
The documents provide a rare opportunity for U.S. intelligence. When a mid-level terrorist is captured, his bosses know exactly what information might be compromised and can change plans. When the boss is taken, everything might be compromised but nobody knows for sure.
Al-Kuwaiti inadvertently led intelligence officials to bin Laden when he used a telephone last year to talk with someone the U.S. had wiretapped. The CIA then tracked al-Kuwaiti back to the walled compound in a town near Islamabad.
The home was bigger than those nearby, and there were no phone lines or Internet cables running to it. But other than that, it didn't stand out in the neighborhood, where residents tend to be very religious and jealous of their privacy. The walls are mold-stained, there are trees in the garden and the windows are hidden. Once, when a woman involved in a polio vaccine drive turned up at the driveway, the men at the gate took the vaccine, apparently to administer to the 23 children at the compound, and told her to go away.
The Pakistani government has denied suggestions that its security forces knew anything about bin Laden's hideout or failed to spot suspicious signs. But in the closed-door briefing for lawmakers Tuesday, Panetta said, "Pakistan was involved or incompetent," a U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the private briefing.
Pakistan formally criticized the raid Tuesday, calling it an "unauthorized unilateral action." While the statement suggested further strain in U.S. relations with an important but at times unreliable counterterrorism ally, Pakistan is unlikely to have much world support for criticizing the successful mission.
Though Monday's pre-dawn raid on that compound was a major counterterrorism victory, there had been no guarantee of success. Government analysts suspected bin Laden was living there but could never prove it. Satellite surveillance provided the military with images to plan its strike but never captured a picture of bin Laden on the property.
With no assurance that bin Laden would be there, sending troops into Pakistan was a risky call. The SEALs could storm a compound and find no terrorists at all, leaving Pakistan furious about a U.S. military incursion. Or the Pakistani military, not realizing what was going on, could send its own air force to attack the SEAL team.
"What if you go down and you're in a firefight and the Pakistanis show up and start firing?" Panetta said in an interview with Time. "How do you fight your way out?"
With officials at the CIA and the White House watching on television monitors, tensions increased when one of the two Black Hawk helicopters lowered into the compound and, beneath a moonless sky, fell heavily to the ground. Officials believe that was due to higher-than-expected air temperature that interfered with the chopper's ability to hover — an aeronautical condition known as "hot and high."
Photos released by the White House show the president and national security team watching tensely as events unfolded. The CIA director said neither he nor Obama saw bin Laden shot.
The SEALs all got out of the downed helicopter and proceeded into the compound. As they swept through the property, they handcuffed those they encountered with plastic zip ties and pressed on in pursuit of their target, code-named Geronimo. Many SEAL team members carry helmet-mounted cameras, but the video beamed back to Washington did not show the fateful showdown with bin Laden, officials said.
That word came from the SEALs on the ground: "Geronimo EKIA" — enemy killed in action.
The CIA's makeshift command center erupted in applause as the SEALs helicoptered to safety.
Now, the agency's attention turns to finding the intelligence in the computer files, flash drives, DVDs and documents hauled out of the compound. All of that is in Washington and the analysis has begun. The SEALs also confiscated phone numbers from bin Laden's body, and those might provide new leads for investigators. If the intelligence provides the kind of insight about al-Qaida operations that officials hope, the U.S. could deliver follow-up strikes against al-Qaida's remaining leaders.
Some called him a murderer whose death would reduce violence in the Middle East. For others he was a hero who stood up to a country viewed as a ruthless invader.
The reactions on the Arab street yesterday to the killing of Osama bin Laden were as diverse as the views - from approving praise to bitter hostility - of America's involvement in the Middle East.
Many who condemned the US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan doubted that the al Qa'eda leader had been killed, and accused Washington of fabricating his death to boost Barack Obama's image at home and abroad.
Maha, a 27-year-old accountant in Damascus, said: "Obama is facing an election very soon and is looking for any victory to convince his people to vote for him."
Maryam S, a 24-year-old from Abu Dhabi, said bin Laden should not have been executed without a trial. "Doesn't the world follow a law? If they follow the law, then they should take him to court, even if the ruling is for him to be beheaded," she said.
"I think the US distorted bin Laden's image as a terrorist until it reached the minds of people that he was a terrorist."
Others hoped that bin Laden's death might signal a shift from violence towards the peaceful protests that have characterised the revolutions across the region as a way to trigger change, and said it provided a boost for the US-led fight against terror.
Lama Ali, a 20-year-old history student at Damascus University, said he was "so happy" when he heard of the US raid. "The United States attacked Afghanistan and Iraq under the slogan of fighting terrorism and bin Laden. His death has sent a big message for all terrorists in the world that one day, even if after 10 years, they will get their punishment," he said.
But other supporters of the US operation were concerned that bin Laden's death was not enough to eradicate al Qa'eda.
Sheikh Obeid al Jabouri, a tribal leader from the Iraqi city of Ramadi, said it was a “moral victory” for those fighting against al Qa’eda’s ideology.
“But with his death, the fight is not over. Every time an al Qa’eda leader is killed, another comes along to replace him.”
Some were sceptical because the US had not shown bin Laden’s body, but buried it at sea.
Sami, who tweets under the name jar7_mansy, wrote: “There are two things in life which you will never see: 1) a video of Osama bin Laden dead 2) the recording for the black box for the September 11 planes.”
Mohammed Rahman Youssef, a 25-year-old Egyptian graduate student, was one of many sceptics in Cairo yesterday.
“There is a missing link in this chain of events. Where is the body? And the story of them tracking the courier is just unbelievable,” he said.
Salma Al Suleimany, a fashion designer in Oman’s capital, Muscat, said: “The US would have made a show of his body by inviting international media, especially Al Jazeera – which many of us believe – if it was genuine news.”
Shayma B, a university student in Al Ain, said the killing was a sign of defeat.
“Of course many family and friends agree with this,” she said. “We are not happy at all.” She feared the death heralded a war against Muslims.
Some were fearful of revenge attacks by al Qa’eda.
Firas Abu Assi, 32, who sells parking tickets at a public park in Jordan, said he felt “tense because the reaction to bin Laden’s death may be very violent”.
At a cafe in Zarzis, the port city in southern Tunisia, a man who identified himself as Bashir said, as he sat with two friends and drank coffee: “Even if Osama bin Laden was the most savage person in the world, as long as he is against the Americans then I support him.”
His friend Khalid said: “He at least did something to represent Islam in the face of the Americans.”
There was discontent at the jubilant tone of the reaction in America.
Hazza Mubarak from Dubai, who tweets under the name Hazza3M, wrote: “Is it appropriate to be happy about Christians killing a Muslim, even if he was wrong?”
Osama bin Laden sits with his adviser and possible successor Ayman al-Zawahiri during an interview with a Pakistani journalist in an image supplied by Dawn newspaper in 2001.
A frail, bespectacled and mumbling Egyptian surgeon with a $25 million (Dh91.8m) US bounty on his head is set to become al Qa'eda's new leader.
Ayman al Zawahiri was Osama bin Laden's long-serving deputy, most trusted mentor and the terror network's organisational brains and chief ideologue.
But the grey-bearded 59-year-old lacks bin Laden's charisma. And his ability to inspire is highly questionable at a time when the message of jihadi militancy has been drastically undermined and discredited by the Arab Spring, whose democratic and peaceful values have fired the masses in a way that al Qa'eda failed to do.
With al Qa'eda now a diffuse and regionally dispersed network of largely autonomous groups, Zawahiri could find himself challenged - or simply ignored - by the leaders of a younger generation of its affiliates who may consider themselves better suited to assume bin Laden's mantle.
The most lethally potent of these terror "franchises" is the Yemen-based al Qa'eda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), US experts say.
Bin Laden's death is a "catastrophe", an AQAP member said yesterday.
"At first we did not believe it, but we got in touch with our brothers in Pakistan who confirmed it," he told Agence France-Press.
AQAP's alarm and dismay are understandable, but exaggerated. Al Qa'eda has already adapted itself to survive and function without its founder, who in recent years was more of a mythic and spectral figurehead than a hands-on leader.
AQAP's leader is Naser Abdul-Karim al-Wahishi, also known as Abu Basir. He born in Yemen in 1976 and once served as bin Laden's secretary.
But its most high-profile figure and key recruiter is Anwar al Awlaki, a radical cleric with fluent English. A dual US and Yemeni citizen, he was born in New Mexico in 1971 and served as an imam in California and Virginia before basing himself in Yemen where he gained a following with his lurid if eloquent internet sermons.
US counter-terrorism officials have branded him one of al Qa'eda's most dangerous leaders and Washington last year took the unusual step of authorising the CIA to kill him after freezing his assets.
Awlaki is said to have inspired a thwarted Christmas Day attack aboard a US airliner in 2009 and an attempt last year to blow up two US-bound cargo planes with toner cartridges packed with explosives.
In Yemen, meanwhile, he was tried by a court in January and sentenced to 10 years in jail for inciting the killings of foreigners, although, of course, he never showed up for the hearings.
Experts, however, say Zawahiri remains al Qa'eda's most likely candidate to replace bin Laden. His hectoring, schoolmasterly manner and lack of charisma are seemingly more than compensated for by his seniority and quarter-century-old relationship with bin Laden.
Zawahiri is said to have ensured al Qa'eda's survival after the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan smashed the organisation's safe haven in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Many of its fighters and leaders were scattered, killed or captured.
Zawahiri rebuilt al Qa'eda's leadership in the Afghan-Pakistan border region - where he is thought to be hiding - and installed his allies as new lieutenants in key positions.
He was born in 1951, the son of an upper middle-class family of doctors and scholars in the wealthy Cairo suburb of Maadi. His grandfather was the grand imam of Al Azhar, the centre of mainstream Sunni Muslim teaching.
Unlike bin Laden, who found his jihadist calling as an adult, Zawahiri began his activism in his mid-teens, when he joined the Muslim Brotherhood, an outlawed, non-violent group seeking the creation of a single Islamic state.
He graduated from Egypt's most prestigious medical school in 1974. In the late 1970s, deciding that the Muslim Brotherhood was too moderate, Zawahiri helped found the militant Egyptian Islamic Jihad. He was jailed for the unlicensed possession of a pistol after President Anwar Sadat's assassination in 1981, but released three years later.
He then made his way to Pakistan where he worked with the Red Crescent treating fighters wounded in the Afghan war against Soviet occupation, and first met bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Peshawar in the mid-1980s.
In 1998, both men signed an infamous fatwa calling for attacks on American targets worldwide. Zawahiri was indicted later that same year for the bombings of the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
In December 2001, his hatred of the US became deeply personal when his wife, Azza, and three daughters were reportedly killed in a US air strike on the Afghan city of Kandahar.
The last video of Zawahiri with bin Laden was in 2003 when they called for jihad and praised the September 11 hijackers.
As bin Laden faded from public view for long stretches, Zawahiri went on to become al Qa'eda's most prominent spokesman, appearing in some 40 videotapes, most of them virulent rants against the US. In 2008 he held an unprecedented question and answer session online with al Qa'eda sympathisers who repeatedly questioned him over the group's killing of civilians in Iraq.
Zawahiri's most recent videotape was in April when, clearly alarmed that al Qa'eda had been made to look like an irrelevant spectator at the pro-democracy uprisings sweeping the Arab world, he urged Muslims to fight Nato and American forces in Libya.
Washington: For years, the agonising search for Osama Bin Laden kept coming up empty. Then last July, Pakistanis working for the CIA drove up behind a white Suzuki navigating the bustling streets near Peshawar, Pakistan, and wrote down the car's licence plate.
The man in the car was Bin Laden's most trusted courier, and over the next month CIA operatives would track him throughout central Pakistan. Ultimately, administration officials said, he led them to a sprawling compound at the end of a long dirt road and surrounded by tall security fences in a wealthy hamlet 48km from the Pakistani capital.
On a moonless night eight months later, 79 US commandos in four helicopters descended on the compound, the officials said. Shots rang out. A helicopter stalled and would not take off. Pakistani authorities, kept in the dark by their allies in Washington, scrambled jets as the US commandos rushed to finish their mission and leave before a confrontation.
Of the five dead, one was a tall, bearded man with a bloodied face and a bullet in his head. A member of the Navy Seals snapped his picture with a camera and uploaded it to analysts who fed it into a facial recognition programme. And just like that, history's most expansive, expensive and exasperating manhunt was over.
The inert frame of Osama Bin Laden, America's enemy No 1, was placed in a helicopter for burial at sea, never to be seen or feared again. A nation that spent a decade tormented by its failure to catch the man responsible for nearly 3,000 fiery deaths in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, at long last had its sense of finality, at least in this one difficult chapter.
For an intelligence community that had endured searing criticism for a string of intelligence failures over the past decade, Bin Laden's killing brought a measure of redemption. For a military that has slogged through two, and now three vexing wars in Muslim countries, it provided an unalloyed success.
And for a president whose national security leadership has come under question, it proved an affirming moment that will enter the history books. The raid was the culmination of years of painstaking intelligence work, including the interrogation of CIA detainees in secret prisons in Eastern Europe, where sometimes what was not said was as useful as what was.
Intelligence agencies eavesdropped on telephone calls and e-mails of the courier's Arab family and pored over satellite images of the compound in Abbottabad to determine a "pattern of life" that might decide whether the operation would be worth the risk. As more than a dozen White House, intelligence and Pentagon officials described the operation on Monday, the past few weeks were a nerve-racking amalgamation of what-ifs and negative scenarios.
"There wasn't a meeting when someone didn't mention 'Black Hawk Down'," a senior administration official said, referring to the disastrous 1993 battle in Somalia in which two US helicopters were shot down and some of their crew killed in action. The failed mission to rescue hostages in Iran in 1979 also loomed large.
Administration officials split over whether to launch the operation, whether to wait and continue monitoring until they were more sure that Bin Laden was really there, or whether to go for a less risky bombing assault. In the end, Obama opted against a bombing that could do so much damage it might be uncertain whether Bin Laden was really hit, and chose to send in commandos.
A "fight your way out" option was built into the plan, with two helicopters following the two main assault copters as backup in case of trouble. On Sunday afternoon, as the helicopters raced over Pakistani territory, the president and his advisers gathered in the Situation Room of the White House to monitor the operation as it unfolded.
Much of the time was spent in silence. Obama looked "stone-faced," one aide said. Vice President Joe Biden fingered his rosary beads. "The minutes passed like days," recalled John O. Brennan, the White House counterterrorism chief. The code name for Bin Laden was "Geronimo."
The president and his advisers watched Leon E. Panetta, the CIA director, on a video screen, narrating from his agency's headquarters across the Potomac River what was happening in far-away Pakistan. "They've reached the target," he said. Minutes passed. "We have a visual on Geronimo," he said. A few minutes later: "Geronimo EKIA." Enemy Killed In Action. There was silence in the Situation Room. Finally, the president spoke up. "We got him."
FILLING IN THE GAPS
Years before the September 11 attacks transformed Bin Laden into the world's most feared terrorist, the CIA had begun compiling a detailed dossier about the major players inside his global terror network. It wasn't until after 2002, when the agency began rounding up Al Qaida operatives - and subjecting them to hours of brutal interrogation sessions in secret overseas prisons - that they finally began filling in the gaps about the foot soldiers, couriers and money men Bin Laden relied on.
Prisoners in US custody told stories of a trusted courier. When the Americans ran the man's pseudonym past two top-level detainees - the chief planner of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad; and Al Qaida's operational chief, Abu Faraj Al Libi - the men claimed never to have heard his name. That raised suspicions among interrogators that the two detainees were lying and that the courier probably was an important figure. As the hunt for Bin Laden continued, the spy agency was being buffeted on other fronts: the botched intelligence assessments about weapons of mass destruction leading up to the Iraq War, and the intense criticism for using waterboarding and other extreme interrogation methods that critics said amounted to torture.
By 2005, many inside the CIA had reached the conclusion that the Bin Laden hunt had grown cold, and the agency's top clandestine officer ordered an overhaul of the agency's counterterrorism operations. The result was Operation Cannonball, a bureaucratic reshuffling that placed more CIA case officers on the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
With more agents in the field, the CIA finally got the courier's family name. With that, they turned to one of their greatest investigative tools - the National Security Agency began intercepting telephone calls and email messages between the man's family and anyone inside Pakistan.
From there they got his full name. Last July, Pakistani agents working for the CIA spotted him driving his vehicle near Peshawar. When, after weeks of surveillance, he drove to the sprawling compound in Abbottabad, US intelligence operatives felt they were onto something big, perhaps even Bin Laden himself.
It was hardly the spartan cave in the mountains that many had envisioned as his hiding place. Rather, it was a three-story mansion ringed by 12-foot-high concrete walls, topped with barbed wire and protected by two security fences. Back in Washington Panetta met with Obama and his most senior national security aides, including Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates.
The meeting was considered so secret that White House officials didn't even list the topic-in their alerts to each other. That day, Panetta spoke at length about Bin Laden and his presumed hiding place. "It was electric," an administration official who attended the meeting said. "For so long, we'd been trying to get a handle on this guy. And all of a sudden, it was like, wow, there he is."
Still, there was still guesswork about whether Bin Laden was indeed inside the mansion. What followed was weeks of tense meetings between Panetta and his subordinates about what to do next. While Panetta advocated an aggressive strategy, to confirm Bin Laden's presence, some CIA clandestine officers worried that the most promising lead in years might be blown if bodyguards suspected the compound was being watched and spirited the Al Qaida leader out of the area.
For weeks last fall, spy satellites took detailed photographs, and the NSA worked to scoop up any communications coming from the mansion. It wasn't easy: the compound had neither a phone line nor internet access. Those inside were so concerned about security that they burned their trash rather than put it on the street for collection.
In February, Panetta called Vice Admiral William H. McRaven, commander of the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command, to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., to give him details about the compound and to begin planning a military strike.
McRaven, a veteran of the covert world who had written a book on US Special Operations, spent weeks working with the CIA on the operation, and came up with three options: a helicopter assault using US commandos, a strikes with B-2 bombers that would obliterate the compound, or a joint raid with Pakistani intelligence operatives who would be told about the mission hours before the launch.
WEIGHING THE OPTIONS
On March 14, Panetta brought the options to the White House. CIA officials had been taking satellite photos, establishing what Panetta described as the habits of people living at the compound. By now evidence was mounting that Bin Laden was there.
The discussions about what to do took place as US relations with Pakistan were severely strained over the arrest of Raymond A. Davis, the CIA officer imprisoned for shooting two Pakistanis on a crowded street in Lahore in January.
Some of Obama's top aides worried that any military assault to capture or kill Bin Laden might provoke an angry response from Pakistan's government, and that Davis could end up dead in his jail cell.
Davis was ultimately released on March 16, giving a freer hand to his colleagues. On March 22, the president asked his advisers their opinion on the options. Gates was skeptical about a helicopter assault, calling it risky, and instructed military officials to look into aerial bombardment using smart bombs.
But a few days later, the officials returned with the news that it would take some 32 bombs of 2,000 pounds each. And how could the US officials be certain that they had killed Bin Laden? "It would have created a giant crater, and it wouldn't have given us a body," said one US intelligence official.
A helicopter assault emerged as the favoured option. The Navy Seals team that would hit the ground began holding dry runs at training facilities on both US coasts, which were made up to resemble the compound. But they were not told who their target might be until later.
Last Thursday, the day after the president released his long-form birth certificate - such "silliness," he told reporters, was distracting the country from more important things - Obama met again with his top national security officials.
Panetta told the group that the CIA had "red-teamed" the case - shared their intelligence with other analysts who weren't involved to see if they agreed that Bin Laden was probably in Abbottabad. They did. It was time to decide.
Around the table, the group went over and over the negative scenarios. There were long periods of silence, one aide said. And then, finally, Obama spoke: "I'm not going to tell you what my decision is now - I'm going to go back and think about it some more." But he added, "I'm going to make a decision soon."
Sixteen hours later, he had made up his mind. Early the next morning, four top aides were summoned to the White House Diplomatic Room. Before they could brief the president, he cut them off. "It's a go," he said. The earliest the operation could take place was Saturday, but officials cautioned that cloud cover in the area meant that Sunday was much more likely.
The next day, Obama took a break from rehearsing for the White House Correspondents Dinner that night - to telephone McRaven to wish him luck. On Sunday, White House officials canceled all West Wing tours so that unsuspecting tourists and visiting celebrities wouldn't accidentally run into all the high level national security officials holed up in the Situation Room all afternoon monitoring the feeds they were getting from Panetta.
A staffer went to Costco and came back with a mix of provisions - turkey pita wraps, cold shrimp, potato chips, soda. At 2:05pm, Panetta sketched out the operation to the group for a final time. Within an hour, the CIA director began his narration, via video from Langley. "They've crossed into Pakistan," he said.
ACROSS THE BORDER
The commando team had raced into the Pakistani night from a base in Jalalabad, just across the border in Afghanistan. The goal was to get in and get out before Pakistani authorities detected the breach of their territory by what were to them unknown forces and reacted with possibly violent results.
In Pakistan, it was just past midnight on Monday morning, and the Americans were counting on the element of surprise. As the first of the helicopters swooped in at low altitudes, neighbours heard a loud blast and gunshots. A woman who lives two kilometers away said she thought it was a terrorist attack on a Pakistani military installation.
Her husband said no one had any clue Bin Laden was hiding in the quiet, affluent area. "It's the closest you can be to Britain," he said of their neighbourhood. The Seal team stormed into the compound - the raid awakened the group inside, one US intelligence official said - and a firefight broke out.
One man held an unidentified woman living there as a shield while firing at the Americans. Both were killed. Two more men died as well, and two women were wounded. US authorities later determined that one of the slain men was Bin Laden's son and the other two were the courier and his brother.
The commandos found Bin Laden on the third floor, wearing the robes known as a shalwar kamiz, and officials said he resisted before he was shot above the left eye near the end of the 40-minute raid. The US government gave few details about his final moments. "Whether or not he got off any rounds, I frankly don't know," said Brennan, the White House counterterrorism chief.
But a senior Pentagon official, briefing on the condition of anonymity, said it was clear Bin Laden "was killed by US bullets." US officials insisted they would have taken Bin Laden into custody if he did not resist, although they considered that likelihood remote.
"If we had the opportunity to take Bin Laden alive, if he didn't present any threat, the individuals involved were able and prepared to do that," Brennan said. One of Bin Laden's wives identified his body, US officials said.
A picture taken by a Seal commando and processed through facial recognition software suggested a 95 per cent certainty that it was Bin Laden. Later, DNA tests comparing samples with relatives found a 99.9 per cent match. But the Americans faced other problems.
One of their helicopters stalled and could not take off, officials said. Rather than let it fall into the wrong hands, the commandos moved the women and children to a secure area and blew up the malfunctioning helicopter. By that point, though, the Pakistani military was scrambling forces in response to the incursion into Pakistani territory.
"They had no idea about who might have been on there," Brennan said. "Thankfully, there was no engagement with Pakistani forces." As they took off at 1:10 am local time, taking a trove of documents and computer hard drives from the house, the Americans left behind the women and children.
A Pakistani official said nine children, from 2 to 12 years old, are now in Pakistani custody. The Obama administration had already determined it would follow Islamic tradition of burial within 24 hours to avoid offending devout Muslims, yet concluded Bin Laden would have to be buried at sea, since no country would be willing to take the body.
Moreover, they were not anxious to create a shrine for his followers. So the Al Qaida leader's body was washed and placed in a white sheet in keeping with tradition. On the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, it was placed in a weighted bag as an officer read prepared religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic by a native speaker, according to the senior Pentagon official.
The body then was placed on a prepared flat board and eased into the sea. Only a few sailors watching from one of the large elevator platforms that move aircraft up to the flight deck were witness to the end of America's most wanted fugitive.
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