Thursday, May 5, Israel augmented the units deployed on its border with Syria and the intersection of the Israel-Syria-Jordan frontiers in the Har Dov area against the spate of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees in flight from President Bashar Assad's bloody crackdown in Damascus and the Daraa region. The UN force on the Golan Heights – UNDOF – is likewise beefing up the contingents policing Israeli-Syrian ceasefire lines. Some, turned away at Turkish, Jordanian and Lebanese borders, are heading for Israel. Far from dispensing with electronic devices and Internet connections as widely reported, photos of Osama bin Laden's fortress-villa in Abbottabad, Pakistan, prove it was equipped with both and therefore vulnerable to penetration and surveillance. Puzzling questions include: Why did the US and Pakistan who must have known where he was not lay hands on him sooner? Why was May 1, 2011 chosen for the operation? And why did US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tie it in with the Arab uprising? ly revealing issue. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly,click here The White House is fighting a losing battle for credibility: Its first statements on the special forces' raid which killed the al Qaeda leader in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2 are proving incorrect: Washington has been forced to admit that bin Laden was not armed when he was killed and his wife was not used as a human shield. This further fuels Arab-Muslim skepticism about the affair, especially with Pakistan actively challenging the US version with the help of the survivors in its custody. Like Iran and its surrogates, the late Osama bin Laden's organization has established networks around Israel's borders in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egyptian Sinai. In the Gaza Strip, harbored by Hamas, al Qaeda operatives have built six villas on the model of Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. All the same, Mahmoud Abbas will join Hamas Wednesday in signing a Palestinian unity accord that opens the West Bank door not only to Hamas terror but to its al Qaeda partners enjoying sanctuary in Gaza. US sources report that Osama bin Laden was buried at sea to avoid creating a shrine for jihadist terrorists to visit. US sources disclose that Abbottabad, where a squadron of US Seals killed the al Qaeda leader Sunday night, May 2, is a Pakistani garrison town housing a large military base. His walled villa was just 100 meters away from a military academy and 120 kilometers from the capital, Islamabad. And what's next for al Qaeda? The comingDEBKA-Net-Weeklyout Friday dispels some of the fog around the killing of Osama bin Laden by a US special force - such as: Whynow? Where were his bodyguards?What was he doing with five computers, 100 storage devices and no gun? To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly,click here
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This issue also will lay out information on al Qaeda's next steps and answer another question: Where to look for its dead leader's avengers?
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Thursday, 5 May 2011
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 5, 2011, 12:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel keeps close watch on Syrian turbulence
Why do US officials link Bin Laden killing with the Arab Revolt?
May 2, 2011, 10:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
Osama bin Laden's bloodstained room, bed and passports.
White House fumbles getting its Osama bin Laden story straight
May 4, 2011, 3:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Abbottabad villa does not support US account of a fortress with few windows
Gaza has six fortified villas just like bin Laden's Abbottabad compound
May 3, 2011, 5:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
An al Qaeda residence - in Gaza just like Abbottabad
Osama bin Laden's last haven was a Pakistani military town
May 2, 2011, 10:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
What really happened in Osama bin Laden's villa?
May 3, 2011, 10:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
On tenterhooks?
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