U.S. to Germany: Bin Laden linked to Europe attack plot
BY Kirsten Grieshaber and Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press, May 26, 2011

BERLIN -- The U.S. has told Germany that evidence pulled from Osama bin Laden's hideout shows that the terrorism chief was linked to a plot to attack targets in Europe last year, a senior German official told the Associated Press on Wednesday.

Two U.S. officials also told the Associated Press that bin Laden had advised Europe-based militants to attack in unspecified mainland European countries just before Dec. 25. The officials offered no details.

Separately, bin Laden encouraged multiple attacks on Danish targets because of disparaging references to the Muslim prophet Muhammad in Danish media, the U.S. officials said.

European security officials said earlier this month that they had seen very little of the information from the May 2 raid on bin Laden's hideout, but the U.S. had begun sharing more information with intelligence agencies in Europe....

The Pakistan news just keeps coming; this one's bizarre:

Pakistan and China: Two Friends Hit a Bump
By Michael Wines, New York Times, May 26/27, 2011

.....it raised eyebrows when this week the two nations politely disagreed over whether Mr. Gilani had given the Chinese a gift that would be hard to mislay: an entire naval base, right at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.

Pakistan’s defense minister, Ahmad Mukhtar, who accompanied Mr. Gilani on the state visit, announced the deal after Mr. Gilani returned home on Saturday.

“We have asked our Chinese brothers to please build a naval base at Gwadar,” a deepwater port on Pakistan’s southwest coast, he told journalists.

Moreover, he said, Pakistan had invited China to assume management of the port’s commercial operations, now run by a Singapore firm under a multidecade contract.

On Tuesday, however, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, disagreed, saying the port had neither been offered nor accepted.

“China and Pakistan are friendly neighbors,” she said at the ministry’s twice-weekly news conference. “Regarding the specific China-Pakistan cooperative project that you raised, I have not heard of it. It’s my understanding that during the visit last week this issue was not touched upon.”

Some analysts were at a loss to explain the discrepancy....