Months after they forced president Hosni Mubarak out of power through just 18 days of protest, the Egyptians are backed with what they call a second revolution.This edition of News Analysis asks: Why the divide between the military rulers and the revolutionaries is widening?


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More than three months after Hosni Mubarak was ousted from presidency, tens of thousands of Egyptians converged on Tahrir Square for what some are calling a “second revolution.” While they have ousted their dictator, many are impatient with the pace of change under Egypt’s interim military rulers and see a need for steady pressure.

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They saw the announcement this week that Mr. Mubarak will be tried for killing more than 800 protesters as vindication that their strategy is working. Now, they’re redoubling efforts to ensure that their other demands are met.

“If we put on more pressure, we will get more results,” says Waleed Rashed of the April 6 Youth Movement, an organization that started as a Facebook group in 2008 and became one of the instigators of the Egyptian revolution. “We want to always remind the military and the government that we are here and we are following them day by day.”

Many attended today’s “second day of rage,” a reference to the Jan. 28 protests that resulted in violent clashes with police, because they are displeased with the performance of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and they want to see faster trials of Mubarak and members of the former regime. They want to speed up democratic reform. Others were there to denounce military tribunals; activists say thousands of Egyptians have been unjustly convicted since late January.

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“The people in charge are still corrupt,” said Egyptian blogger Mostafa Sheshtawy as friends greeted him in Tahrir Square. “We are … the people who can build this country.”

No unified set of demands

Tahrir Square on Friday was reminiscent of the 18 iconic days before Mubarak was ousted from presidency on Feb. 11, and the many Friday protests that have followed since. People carried signs and children wore revolutionary headbands with the colors of their prized Egyptian flag. Today, the square was a bit less crowded.

Similar to the all the other protests that have taken place since Jan. 25, Friday’s lacked central leadership; there was no single list of agreed-upon demands among various activists, party members and individuals.

“It doesn’t seem that it’s a strategy focused on the Egyptian population, but a strategy focused on keeping up the pressure on the military,” says Michele Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “They feel as soon as they stop protesting, they will lose all their leverage and they’re not satisfied with what they’ve achieved so far.”
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KABUL (Xinhua) — Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in Pakistan, a private television channel reported Monday.

“Mullah Omar was killed on way from Quetta to North Waziristan, ” TOLO television said in its news bulletin.

However, it did not provide details on how he was killed and by whom.

Meanwhile, a security official confirmed the killing, saying, ” it is correct that Mullah Omar has been killed.”

But he did not disclose details.

Afghani Tv channel confirmed that Al Qeeda leader Mullah Omar killed in Pakistan wazirestan travalling from quetta Pakistan by Nato forces.

Inside Story, with presenter Darren Jordon, discusses with Imtiaz Gul, a political analyst and author of several books on al-Qaeda including The most dangerous palce; Paul Rogers, a professor of peace studies at the University of Bradford; and Mahan Abedin, director of research at the center for the study of terrorism.

This episode of Inside Story aired from Wednesday, May 4, 2011. (Courtesy Al Jazeera English)

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This edition of News Analysis discuses the issue and ask: Why wasn’t Bin Laden arrested if he was unarmed?

The SEALs, members of elite Team Six, arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, D.C., sources told ABC News.

The arrival of the military members comes amid news that President Obama will not release photos of Bin Laden’s corpse. Obama administration officials believe the photos could pose a national security risk and endanger Americans living in the United States and abroad.

A trove of information seized in the 40-minute raid that left Bin Laden dead arrived at an FBI laboratory in Quantico, Va., between Monday night and Tuesday, sources told ABC News. At least five computers, 10 hard drives and more than 100 digital media items, including disks, DVDs and thumb drives, traveled more than 7,000 miles to the FBI facility.

In addition to the digital media and paper documents, the Navy SEALs also took guns and a number of other items from the Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound. Those guns have been checked for fingerprints, which will be run through a huge intelligence database that culls fingerprints from terrorist safe houses and the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

DNA evidence was taken from some of the killed and wounded who were guarding Bin Laden.

“We want to know who has been there and where else they may have been,” one official said.

Duplicates of this data will be given to a special interagency task force at the CIA’s counterterrorism center.

Of all the equipment that the SEALS took into and out of Bin Laden’s sprawling compound in Abbottabad, the one thing they didn’t have was a tape measure to help in identifying the terrorist. One SEAL was forced to lie down next to the corpse of Bin Laden to approximate his height, sources told ABC News.

Bin Laden appeared to be ready to run at any time with money and phone numbers stitched into his clothes when the SEALs found him on an upper floor of his compound.

Bin Laden’s clothing had 500 euros and two phone numbers sewn into it, sources told ABC News. Analysts are tracing those phone numbers and going through each computer seized, running keyword searches using words like “explosives” or “weddings.” Weddings is a word often used by al Qaeda to signify a bombing.

“There’s a lot we have to go through, some encryption, some coding. It’s in another language. It’s in Arabic, so there’s a lot to go through before we really find out what we have, but remember small pieces of information can be critically important,” said Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

At a briefing on Capitol Hill, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said that some of the information seized has already been reviewed by her agency.

As the material is examined, analysts will look to see if more individuals should be added to the terrorist and no-fly watchlists.

“The material that was seized will be reviewed by an interagency team — CIA, Justice, other intelligence agencies and other law enforcement agencies are all contributing people and machines. … As we glean information from that material we will make appropriate determinations about who would be added to the watchlist and no-fly list,” said Attorney General Eric Holder at Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing today.