Tatizo siyo kuandika wosia mkuu..tatizo ni jinsi alivyowakataza wanawe wasipigane jihadi wakati yeye alikuwa akihimiza watoto wa wenzake wakajitoe mhanga. Kama alikuwa na upendo na jihadi angelikuwa wa kwanza kuvalisha mabomu watoto wake.
............45 minutes ! (kipindi kizima cha mpira kimoja !) walikua wakipigana na OSAMA ! SWALI 1. Alikua na walinzi wa ngapi ? 2. Wangapi waliuawa ? 3. Osama hakuwa na silaha, walishindwaje kumdhibiti !? 4. Aliuawa katika 'ACTION' au baadae katika sehemu waliochagua wao, kwani nini? 5. Kulikuwa na watu kiasi gani ? wanne tu kwa 45 minutes 6. Serikali ya PAKISTAN hailindi anga yake, waliwezaje kuingia na kutoka bila wao (Pakistan) kuretaliete ? Yaaaani......utata mtupu !
Utata unauleta mwenyewe kwa kuacha makusudi kuangalia operation ya dakika 40 ilifanya nini. Ngoja tuainishe baadhi:
1 ku-break in
2 kupambana na wasaidizi wa osama
3 kumwua osama
4 kupekua nyumba na kutafuta vitu na nyaraka muhimu kama usb sticks na hard drives
5 kuchukua maiti ya osama
6...
7...
8 kuondoka haraka kama ilivopangwa
"I have chosen a path fraught with dangers and endured hardships, disappointment and betrayal. If it wasn't for betrayal, things would be different today. "As for you, my sons, forgive me if I failed to devote more of my time to you since I answered the call to Jihad." He ends his will by advising "the mujahideen wherever they are" to suspend "the fight against the Jews and the Crusaders and start to purge your ranks of agents and defeatists."
Hivi kweli inaingia akilini Osama Bin Laden aandike wosia kama huu kuwa mujahedeen wa-suspend fight against jews??? propaganda nyingine bwana!
Kuna kitu juu ya kifo cha Osama na mimi nafikiri wanaoujua ukweli hasa wa kifo chake ni wachache mno na tuliobaki tunatapatapa gizani hebu angalia habari hizi;
Osama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
ON MAY 1, 2011, JUST MOMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED THAT THE US HAD KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WEBITE CAME UNDER MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. THIS PAGE, WHICH DOCUMENTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ACTUALLY DIED IN DECEMBER OF 2001, APPEARS TO BE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T WANT AVAILABLE WHILE THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAS "CATAPULTED FORWARD". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE OPENING GAMBIT IN A PLAN TO STAGE A "REVENGE" ATTACK FROM "AL QAEDA" ON THE UNITED STATES, WITH WHICH TO JUSTIFY TOTAL WAR ON THE MIDDLE EAST.
Osama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication. With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Osama bin Laden would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent for nine months and not trumpet his own survival? [New York Times. July 11, 2002]
Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.
[Fox News. December 26, 2001]
Bin Laden has often been reported to be in poor health. Some accounts claim that he is suffering from Hepatitis C, and can expect to live for only two more years. According to Le Figaro, last year [2000] he ordered a mobile dialysis machine to be delivered to his base at Kandahar in Afghanistan. [Guardian]
Peter Bergen: Bin Laden has aged 'enormously' This is a man who was clearly not well. I mean, as you see from these pictures here, he's really, by December [2001] he's looking pretty terrible.
But by December, of course, that tape that was aired then, he's barely moving the left side of his body. So he's clearly got diabetes. He has low blood pressure. He's got a wound in his foot. He's apparently got dialysis ... for kidney problems. [CNN]
The [December 27, 2001 video] was dismissed by the Bush administration ... as sick propaganda possibly designed to mask the fact the al-Qa'eda leader was already dead. "He could have made the video and then ordered that it be released in the event of his death," said one White House aide. [Telegraph]
Pakistan's Musharraf: Bin Laden probably dead
Pakistan's president says he thinks Osama bin Laden is most likely dead because the suspected terrorist has been unable to get treatment for his kidney disease.
[A Bush administration official] said U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every three days and "it is fairly obvious that that could be an issue when you are running from place to place, and facing the idea of needing to generate electricity in a mountain hideout." [CNN]
Karzai: bin Laden 'probably' dead
Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead, but former Taliban leader Mullah Omar is alive, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said. [CNN] FBI: Bin Laden 'probably' dead
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation's counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, says he thinks Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead. [BBC] Magazine runs what it calls bin Laden's will
The editor-in-chief of a London-based Arab news magazine said a purported will it published Saturday was written late last year [2001] by Osama bin Laden, and shows "he's dying or he's going to die soon." [CNN]
Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader. "The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead," the source said. [FOX News]
Translation of Funeral Article in Egyptian Paper:
al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633 News of Bin Laden's Death and Funeral 10 days ago
A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban movement announced yesterday the death of Osama bin Laden, the chief of al-Qa'da organization, stating that binLaden suffered serious complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death. [Welfare State]
me naona humu jf kuna malimbukeni wa habari mimi ktk maisha yangu osama atabakia kuwa hero mbele ya kupinga udhalimu wa nchi za west ni ukweli namba ya vidume duniani inapungua lkn mugabe,fidel castro, hugo chavez, ahmed najad , hun jin tao, na kidume cha korea kaskazini hawa ni mashujaa 7bu hawataki kupelekeshwa co cc wa***** kisa 2napewa msaada wa neti hebu angalieni mifano michache usa mpaka leo hawajaondoa hukumu ya kunyongwa lkn hakuna m2 anayepinga kwa ukali bt ingekuwa nchi nyengine ungeckia un na vikwazo vyao pili kwa mujibu wa sheria na pia wanasheria waliomo humu watakubaliana na mimi kuwa usa wanakesi za mauaji mengi moja wapo ya osama kwa mujibu wa sheria hata mtu umkamate anafanya mauaji atabakia kuwa m2humiwa mpaka mahakama itakapothibitisha sasa wao wamethibitisha vp km osama ana hatia wakati mahkama haijathibitisha au na mimi nikiwa na mtuhumu m2 kunikosea naruhusiwa kuchukua hatua mkononi hili swali kwa vinazi vya magharibi
pole ndg mkubwa ndevu, mahakamani ukishakiri kuhusika kesi haiendelei kusikilizwa, inangojewa hukumu tu, mara ngapi osama na watu wa aina yako mmekiri kuwa mnapigania dini ya mwenyezi mungu kwa kuua watu wasiokuwa na hatia???????????????!!!!! Unataka afikishwe mahakamani kujibu nini????!!! Ni lini nyie watu mtaondokana na dhana ya kujiona nyie duniiiiiii??????????????!!wala dini haiwezi kumpeleka yeyote kuiona pepo ya mungu.
Osama bin Laden apologised to his children for neglecting them in a will written three months after the September 11 attacks. The al-Qaeda leader also told his offspring not to join al-Qaeda and ordered his wives not to remarry.
"You, my children, I apologize for giving you so little of my time because I responded to the need for Jihad," the will states.
The four-page document, published in a Kuwaiti newspaper, is largely devoted to justifying the terrorists efforts to destroy America and Israel. There is no mention of possessions. Bin Laden was believed to have inherited an £18 million ($27.6 million) fortune from his father, a construction magnate in Saudi Arabia. The instruction to his 24 children not to fight jihad cites a precedent from the Islamic texts. Omar bin al-Khattab, the successor of the Prophet Mohammad as Islams leader, also left written instructions to his son, Abdullah, not to wage holy war.
Bin Ladens four wives were ordered not to find new husbands and focus on raising his offspring. "Dont consider marrying again, and devote yourselves to your children and guide them to the right path," the will states. The document is signed: "Your brother Abu Abdullah Osama Muhammad Bin Laden". The newspaper said the will was dated December 14, 2001.
Up until that date, US intelligence had been picking up radio transmissions from bin Laden in Tora Bora, the cave complex on the Afghanistan/ Pakistan border where he hid to evade a US bombing campaign. The Washington Post reported in 2002 that a version of a will signed on that date had circulated in Arab circles. A statement from al-Qaeda claimed that the document was a fake, but Western intelligence said it was taking the document seriously. La Vanguardia, a Spanish newspaper, reported that bin Laden believed he would be betrayed within his close circle and would enter paradise as a martyr.
Mbona hawa wakubwa wanatofautiana juu ya hilo?
Walivyokuwa na hamu nae ya kumkamata akiwa hai je picha yake si ingelitolewa haraka!?
Sasa hadithi mpya... mtoto wa Osama ameeleza baba yake alivyokamatwa!!! (hata wakati wa vita ya Iraqi - mtoto wa Balozi wa Kuwait nchini Marekani ndio alitumika kusema kwamba "kwao Iraq Saddam alikuwa akitekeleza mauwaji ya kimbari dhidi ya Wakurdi na Washia" huwa naogopa sana kuamini UONGO wowote ule uwao!!! Kweli tunaishi DUNIA YA MAIGIZO!!
hebu fuatilia mlolongo kwenye link hii kisha utaamua mwenyewe:
"I have chosen a path fraught with dangers and endured hardships, disappointment and betrayal. If it wasn't for betrayal, things would be different today. "As for you, my sons, forgive me if I failed to devote more of my time to you since I answered the call to Jihad." He ends his will by advising "the mujahideen wherever they are" to suspend "the fight against the Jews and the Crusaders and start to purge your ranks of agents and defeatists."
Hivi kweli inaingia akilini Osama Bin Laden aandike wosia kama huu kuwa mujahedeen wa-suspend fight against jews??? propaganda nyingine bwana!
wapo yanayowaingia akilini hayo!! tatizo la wakubwa ni kukosa hesabu za uhakika!! na tatizo la baadhi yetu ni kutotumia fikra kwa ukamilifu. Huwa kuna matatizo ya kutatua tatizo lakini ni vigumu sana kuondoa tatizo la kutengenezwa ndio maana UONGO WA UNAOFUATA LAZIMA UWE MKUBWA KULIKO ULIOTANGULIA ILI KUULINDA UONGO WA KWANZA!!!
Najaribu kujiuluza,
Kwa nini Bush amegoma kwenda kwenye hizo sherehe?
inawezekana amegundua jambo ambalo anataka awe mbali nalo kwenye hizi taarifa za Obama?
Tafadhali wanaoweza kujua lolote wanitoe wasiwasi,
Najiuliza hivyo kwa sababu nilitegemea Bush mwanzilishi wa kumuwinda huyu jamaa angekuwa mstari wa mbele kusherehekea!
Obama aliwahi kumponda Bush kuwa badala ya kutumia resources zote walizonazo kumsaka na kummaliza Osama ambaye alishambulia Marekani, anaenda Iraq kumtafuta Saddam ambaye hakuwa na madhara tena kwa Marekani na maslahi yake. Kwa hiyo Bush anaona aibu kwa sababu ndani ya miaka 3 Obama kaweza kufanya alichoshindwa Bush kukifanya kwa miaka 7 - 8. Kadhalika, Bush ni Republican. Kisiasa ni bora umwache Obama mwenyewe na Democrats wenzake ili kama kuna mistake yoyote ilifanyika waweze kuja kuitumia kisiasa.
najua propaganda zipo kwenye habari tunazojulishwa. lakini kwa mawazo yangu naamini 1. osama kauawa 2. alikamatwa hai na wangeweza kumkamata bila ya kumuua 3. waliamua kumuua ili kuepusha 'movements' za makundi kibao ambayo yangetaka Osama ashitakiwe haraka na kwenye mahakama za kiraia (unakumbuka vurugu za uhalali wa gereza la guantanamo? Kama angebaki hai na hastakiwi au ashtakiwe guantanamo bado makundi yangechonga sana duniani na kuhatarisha yaitwayo 'maslahi' ya marekani duniani kote 4. katupwa (call it kuzikwa) baharini ili kaburi lake lisijulikane lilipo na kugeuzwa eneo la hija. wanaodhani Osama yuko hai walie tu. 5. Wanaodhani pia kuwa Osama led a pure moslem life, pia siwakubali. Uislam hau-entertain ugaidi wa aina yake na wala aliyokuwa akiyafanya hayakuwa jihad. 6. hakuwa ametegemea kabisa kuwa yuko karibu kushambuliwa na nadhani kwa wamarekani kutowaambia pakistani kuhusiana na hilo kulimuondolea source of information. alikuwa na washirika wa karibu sana ndani ya mashushu wa Pakistani ambao walijua kwa uhakika alipokuwepo. 7. kuishi pale kwa muda mrefu kulimwondolea 'machare' na ujanja wa mstuni kama wakati ule alipokuwa mapangoni 7. hakuwahi hata mara 1 kumtoa mtoto wake yeyote kati ya 19 alionao kwenda kujitoa mhanga 8. alikuwa anatumia bangi
wapo yanayowaingia akilini hayo!! tatizo la wakubwa ni kukosa hesabu za uhakika!! na tatizo la baadhi yetu ni kutotumia fikra kwa ukamilifu. Huwa kuna matatizo ya kutatua tatizo lakini ni vigumu sana kuondoa tatizo la kutengenezwa ndio maana UONGO WA UNAOFUATA LAZIMA UWE MKUBWA KULIKO ULIOTANGULIA ILI KUULINDA UONGO WA KWANZA!!!
soma taratibu na kwa umakini sana.......................Osama alitabiri ya kuwa Atasalitiwa na mmoja ya watu ambao anawaamini sana...na hili aliliona tangia mwaka 2001....................na hili limetokea......................alijua ya kuwa ndani ya Al-Qaeda kuna mamluki na kwa hiyo kamwe hawatafanikiwa kwenye malengo yao kama hawatawaondoa hao mamluki kwa sababu siri zao zinavujishwa kwa maadui zao......................................sasa hapa uongo uko wapi?
Account Tells of One-Sided Battle in Bin Laden Raid
Warrick Page for The New York Times On Wednesday, people passed the entrance to the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed by American forces in Abottabad, Pakistan.
WASHINGTON - President Obama decided Wednesday not to release graphic photographs of Osama bin Laden's corpse, as new details emerged about the raid on Bin Laden's fortified compound that differed from the administration's initial account of the nearly 40-minute operation.
Mr. Obama, after a brief but intense debate within his war council, concluded that making the images of Bin Laden public could incite violence against Americans and would do little to persuade skeptics that the founder of Al Qaeda had been killed, White House officials said. The new details suggested that the raid, though chaotic and bloody, was extremely one-sided, with a force of more than 20 Navy Seal members quickly dispatching the handful of men protecting Bin Laden. Administration officials said that the only shots fired by those in the compound came at the beginning of the operation, when Bin Laden's trusted courier, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, opened fire from behind the door of the guesthouse adjacent to the house where Bin Laden was hiding. After the Seal members shot and killed Mr. Kuwaiti and a woman in the guesthouse, the Americans were never fired upon again. This account differs from an official version of events issued by the Pentagon on Tuesday, and read by the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, which said the Seal members "were engaged in a firefight throughout the operation." In a television interview on PBS on Tuesday, Leon E. Panetta, the director of the C.I.A., said, "There were some firefights that were going on as these guys were making their way up the staircase of that compound." Administration officials said the official account of events has changed over the course of the week because it has taken time to get thorough after-action reports from the Seal team. And, they added, because the Special Operations troops had been fired upon as soon as they touched down in the compound, they were under the assumption that everyone inside was armed. "They were in a threatening and hostile environment the entire time," one American official said. When the commandos moved into the main house, they saw the courier's brother, who they believed was preparing to fire a weapon. They shot and killed him. Then, as they made their way up the stairs of the house, officials said they killed Bin Laden's son Khalid as he lunged toward the Seal team. When the commandos reached the top floor, they entered a room and saw Osama bin Laden with an AK-47 and a Makarov pistol in arm's reach. They shot and killed him, as well as wounding a woman with him. The firefight over and Bin Laden dead, the team found a trove of information and had the time to remove much of it: about 100 thumb drives, DVDs and computer disks, along with 10 computer hard drives and 5 computers. There were also piles of paper documents in the house. The White House declined to release any additional details about the operation, saying that further information would jeopardize the military's ability to conduct clandestine operations in the future. The administration's reticence came after it was forced on Tuesday to correct parts of its initial account of the raid, including assertions that Bin Laden had used his wife as a "human shield." "We've revealed a lot of information; we've been as forthcoming with facts as we can be," Mr. Carney said. Mr. Carney said the president expressed doubts early on about releasing the photos, but consulted his senior advisers. All of them, Mr. Carney said, voiced concerns about the risks. Based on its monitoring of worldwide reaction to the announcement of Bin Laden's death, Mr. Carney said, the administration also concluded that most people viewed the reports of his death as credible and that publicizing photos would do little to sway those who believed it was a hoax. Mr. Obama was direct in an interview with the CBS News program "60 Minutes," to be broadcast Sunday, according to a transcript released by the network. "It is very important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence - as a propaganda tool." "That's not who we are," Mr. Obama added. "You know, we don't trot out this stuff as trophies." He said, "We don't need to spike the football." "Certainly there's no doubt among Al Qaeda members that he is dead," he said on "60 Minutes." "And so we don't think that a photograph in and of itself is going to make any difference. There are going to be some folks who deny it. The fact of the matter is, you will not see Bin Laden walking on this earth again." The deliberations were reminiscent of Mr. Obama's decision in May 2009 to fight the release of photos documenting the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan by American military personnel. The administration said originally that it would not oppose releasing the pictures, but the president decided he would fight making them public after his military commanders warned that the images could provoke a reaction against troops in those countries. The White House said Mr. Obama would take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the site of the Sept. 11 memorial in Lower Manhattan on Thursday. He is also to meet with relatives of the victims of the terrorist attacks, but he will not make a speech. The next day, he is to travel to Fort Campbell in Kentucky to speak to troops returning from Afghanistan. Seeking to quell any legal questions about the raid, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said, "It was justified as an act of national self-defense," citing Bin Laden's role as the architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. There were divided opinions on Capitol Hill about the photographs, with some lawmakers saying the United States needed to show proof that Bin Laden was dead, while others worried about the possibility of blowback against American troops. "The whole purpose of sending our troops into the compound, rather than an aerial bombardment, was to obtain indisputable evidence of Bin Laden's death," said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina. "The best way to protect and defend our interests overseas is to prove that fact to the rest of the world." Helene Cooper and Thom Shanker contributed reporting.
A version of this article appeared in print on May 5, 2011, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: OBAMA SAYS NO ON DEATH PHOTO; NEW RAID DETAIL.
WASHINGTON - There were 79 people on the assault team that killed Osama bin Laden, but in the end, the success of the mission turned on some two dozen men who landed inside the Qaeda leader's compound, made their way to his bedroom and shot him at close range - all while knowing that the president of the United States was keeping watch from Washington.
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A Seal member preparing to capture top insurgents in 2007 near Fallujah, Iraq. Members of Team 6 are the elite of the elite.
The men, hailed as heroes across the country, will march in no parades. They serve in what is unofficially called Seal Team 6, a unit so secretive that the White House and the Defense Department do not directly acknowledge its existence. Its members have hunted down war criminals in Bosnia, fought in some of the bloodiest battles in Afghanistan and shot three Somali pirates dead on a bobbing lifeboat during the rescue of an American hostage in 2009.
The raid early Monday in Pakistan has nonetheless put a spotlight on a unit that has been involved in some of the American military's most dangerous missions of recent decades. Leon E. Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said the Seal commandos went into the mission with only a 60 percent to 80 percent certainty that Bin Laden was in the compound. Mr. Panetta said the commandos made the "split-second decision" to shoot him - the unarmed Qaeda founder had a rifle within reach, an American official said Wednesday - when they found him in his third-floor bedroom.
There was no debate among former Seal members that whoever had shot Bin Laden had done the right thing.
"It's dark; there's been a lot of bullets flying around, a lot of bodies dropping; your mission is to capture or kill Bin Laden; who knows what he's got tucked in his shirt?" said Don Shipley, 49, a former Seal member who runs Extreme Seal Experience, a private training school in Chesapeake, Va. Mr. Shipley was reacting to earlier Obama administration accounts of an extended firefight at the compound, but on Wednesday, administration officials revised the narrative, saying that the only shots fired came at the beginning of the raid, from a courier.
"It happens in an absolute blink of an eye for these guys," Mr. Shipley said. "And there's that target in front of you. Second chances cost lives."
Lalo Roberti, 27, a former Seal member who teaches at Mr. Shipley's school and took part in a gruesome rescue mission in Afghanistan in 2005, concurred. "For us to take a shot, it has to be bad," Mr. Roberti said. "Especially for the ‘6' guys."
Inside the Navy, there are regular unclassified Seal members, organized into Teams 1 to 5 and 7 to 10. Then there is Seal Team 6, the elite of the elite, or, as Mr. Roberti put it, "the all-star team."
Former Seal members said this week that the unit - officially renamed the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or Devgru - was chosen for the bloody Bin Laden raid, the most high-profile operation in the history of the Seals, because of the group's skills in using lethal force intelligently in complex, ambiguous conditions.
All Seal members face years of brutal preparation, including a notorious six months of basic underwater demolition training in Coronado, Calif. During "hell week," recruits get a total of four hours of sleep during five and a half days of nonstop running, swimming in the cold surf and rolling in mud. About 80 percent of the candidates do not make it; at least one has died.
For those who succeed, more training and then deployments follow. After several years on regular Seal teams, Team 6 candidates are taught to parachute from 30,000 feet with oxygen masks and gain control of a hijacked cruise liner at sea. Of those Seal members, about half make it.
Ryan Zinke, 49, a former member of Seal Team 6 who is now a Republican state legislator in Montana, said members of Team 6 had a certain personality: "I would say cocky, arrogant."
Seals - the term stands for Sea-Air-Land teams - were created by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 as a way to expand unconventional warfare.
Seal Team 6 came later as a reaction to the botched mission to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980, when the Pentagon saw the need for what became today's Special Operations Command, with a special Navy unit focused on counterterrorism.
Seal Team 6 has historically specialized in war on the seas, but in the decade since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, it has increasingly fought on land in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Its size is classified, but Team 6 is thought to have doubled to nearly 300 since then. Over all, there are now about 3,000 active-duty Seal members, split between odd-numbered teams in Coronado and even-numbered teams in Virginia Beach.
For the past 12 and a half years, Mr. Sidialo says he has been nursing fantasies of skinning Osama bin Laden alive. He was an up-and-coming Kenyan executive, on his way to work in August 1998, when Bin Laden's men blew up the American Embassy in Nairobi, killing scores of people and sending glass slicing through Mr. Sidialo's eyes, leaving him totally blind.
But on Monday, when he turned on his radio at the crack of dawn as he always does, Mr. Sidialo learned that Bin Laden was dead. "It was a great relief," he said. "I only wish he had been captured, so he could confess his sins and his evils."
Kenyans, from the president on down, seemed happy Bin Laden had been killed.
"His killing is an act of justice," President Mwai Kibaki said.
Bin Laden's organization, Al Qaeda, has exploited this region's porous borders and weak and often deeply corrupt security services, striking several times. The attacks started in 1998, with the simultaneous bombings of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 200 people, most of them local workers. Al Qaeda struck Kenya again in 2002, bombing a beachside hotel and nearly blowing up an airliner full of Israeli tourists.
Then last summer, the Shabab, a Somali insurgent group that has pledged allegiance to Bin Laden and adopted many signature Qaeda tactics, claimed responsibility for sending a team of suicide bombers to Uganda. They killed dozens of young Ugandans watching the World Cup.
"The death of Bin Laden hopefully will bring about a new era," said Kintu Nyango, an official in Uganda's president's office. "The world will become a better place."
The Shabab said it had carried out the attack because Uganda had sent thousands of peacekeepers to Somalia, to bolster the weak government there and prevent Islamist insurgents from taking over the country. Somali and American officials say several Qaeda agents have worked closely with the Shabab and helped it build a core of foreign fighters determined to turn Somalia into a battleground for jihad, leading to American military strikes against them.
Somalia's president, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, welcomed the death of Bin Laden, accusing Al Qaeda of being behind suicide attacks that killed Somali officials. Residents in Mogadishu echoed the sentiment, hoping Bin Laden's death would weaken the Shabab.
"Our country has been destroyed by Osama's followers," said Hibaaq Ali, a tea seller in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital. "Our youth were misled" by his "murderous ethos," she added, "while many of our people were dying for hunger and thirst. But, from today on, we will live in peace, as the Shabab cannot stay without him. They will also disappear."
Though feelings of joy, relief and comeuppance were widespread, they were not unanimous. For some time in Nairobi, some minibuses have been decorated with images of Bin Laden's face and "Osama" emblazoned on the sides. Though Bin Laden's organization has killed many workaday Kenyans, he seems to have been appreciated by some for his anti-Western defiance, which connects to lingering anticolonial sentiments.
"I, personally, wasn't happy today," said Osman Sheikh, a scientist in Nairobi. "When you kill someone, you can't hear his side of the story. You don't live in a cave for years for nothing. Maybe there was a good reason for doing what he did."
By Monday afternoon, a small crowd gathered in downtown Nairobi at the memorial built on the site of the embassy that was blown up. Most were friends or relatives of the victims. One woman quietly laid five roses at the foot of a plaque commemorating the dead.
"I know this isn't the end of the war," she said. "But it's closure for me."
In Sudan, where Bin Laden lived for several years in the 1990s, the government declined to comment on Bin Laden's death. Many Sudanese still sympathize with Al Qaeda, but the government is also eager to be removed from the United States' list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Still, several Sudanese spoke openly on Monday about Bin Laden's becoming a martyr.
Jamal Mahmud, a professor at Omdurman Islamic University, said he was content that Bin Laden "died with American bullets" and not as a prisoner. "We have been slaughtered by our enemies and he is the only one who brought us a sense of victory," Mr. Mahmud said.
In Burkina Faso, a predominantly Muslim country in West Africa, traders in the capital, Ouagadougou, mostly expressed satisfaction over Bin Laden's demise. Christians and Muslims, side by side on the Avenue de la Grande Mosquée, had similar reactions. Several said they wished he had been captured alive so that he could have been prosecuted to reveal the "truth," as some put it. Many expressed skepticism over whether he was actually dead.
There were also fears of revenge.
"He's a gang leader," said Samuel Ilboudo, a trader. "There's a very strong possibility his partners will react, and look for vengeance."
In an interview, the prime minister of Burkina Faso, Luc Adolphe Tiao, congratulated the Americans and pointed out that his country was on the front lines in the fight with Al Qaeda's North African affiliate.
"If it's true, then we cannot but salute this action," Mr. Tiao said.
He warned, though, that America must deal with the "causes" of terrorism as well, or risk seeing a resurgence of Al Qaeda. "But I think this is a good thing. It's a great victory for the Americans," Mr. Tiao said.
Reporting was contributed by Adam Nossiter from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Josh Kron from Kampala, Uganda; Isma'il Kushkush from Khartoum, Sudan; and Mohammed Ibrahim from Mogadishu, Somalia.
A version of this article appeared in print on May 3, 2011, on page F10 of the New York edition with the headline: Africans Greet News With Relief And Hope.
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With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Osama bin Laden would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent for nine months and not trumpet his own survival? [New York Times. July 11, 2002]
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