Today, the Western media talks about the death of one of the radical Yemeni clerics of South American origins, Anwar al-Aulaqi. The Washington Post reports that Anwar al-Aulaqi was killed in Marib province in northern Yemen. The terrorist was involved in several attacks on the US territory, including the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, an attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner and an attempt to send parcel bombs on cargo plans bound for the United States the same year. In April, 2010 Obama issued an order for his killing.
The Washington Post also reports that the US ambassador to Syria was accosted yesterday by the pro-Assad mob in Damascus. The mob attacked Ambassador Robert S. Ford with tomatoes when he arrived for a meeting with an opposition leader. The US State Department later said that the attack had been planned by the Syrian officials.
"Pakistan never backed Haqqani network: spy chief" is an article published by the Reuters today. Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha told Reuters, that the accusation that Pakistan supports the Haqqani network, an Afghan militant group blamed for an attack on the American embassy in Kabul is not based on any facts. Pakistan was expected by the US to be its major non-NATO ally. At the moment, the support is growing in the US Congress for expanding American military action in Pakistan, while Pakistan's officials claim that it has sacrificed more lives than any of the countries that joined the "war of terror" after September 11, Reuters reports.
The Deutsche Welle and a number of other western newspapers, including the Washington Post, reports on the Belarus' boycott of the EU summit. The Belarus delegation was absent today from the EU summit, which is aimed at promoting closer ties between the European Union and six former Soviet countries. The Belarusian foreign ministry said that the reason for the absence of the Belarusian delegation was the travel ban imposed by the EU on the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and a several other senior regime members after a recent heavy-handed crackdown on opponents.
