ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – When a woman involved in a polio vaccine drive turned up at Osama bin Laden's hideaway, she remarked to the men behind the high walls about the expensive SUVs parked inside. The men took the vaccine, apparently to administer to the 23 children at the compound, and told her...
Twenty-five foreign fighters were killed and wounded by Afghan security forces after they crossed the border from Pakistan, a government official said, the first sign of retaliatory attacks in Afghanistan after al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed.
Bin Laden, the architect of the...
Pakistan's president acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that his security forces were left out of a U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden, but he did little to dispel questions over how the al Qaeda leader was able to live in comfort near Islamabad.
The revelation that bin Laden had...
Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, hopes that with his death, an "evil has ended," the Gulf Arab state's deputy interior minister said Tuesday.
"We hope that with the death of Osama bin Laden, an evil has ended," Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz told reporters at a...
One of Osama bin Laden's wives acted as a human shield in an unsuccessful bid to save the Al-Qaeda leader's life before he was killed in a raid by US special forces, a top US official said Monday.
"There was family at that compound, and there was a female who was, in fact, in the line of fire...
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan's leader denied suggestions that his country's security forces sheltered Osama bin Laden as Britain demanded Tuesday that Islamabad answer for how the al-Qaida chief lived undetected for six years in a large house in a garrison town close to the capital.
But in a...
Amid the justified celebrations over the killing of Osama bin Laden, an awkward question is starting to rear its head: Did U.S. policymakers err in burying the al Qaeda leader at sea?
Already, the decision has provoked criticism from some Islamic scholars, who say a maritime burial isn't in...
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I tried leaving it unplugged for over two weeks, still same result. I hooked up a null modem cable and it will download s/w and count down till it gets to A799 then flashes e010. Tried several factory...
The killing of Osama bin Laden in a firefight with U.S. special forces Sunday would seem to be one of the rare recent "champagne moments" in U.S. foreign policy. But U.S. national security officials and experts were muted in discussing this triumph, opting instead to stress the challenges the...
Osama Bin Laden still alive? Osama buried at sea I am not buying it a barack obama birther II conspiracy forensic proof unavailable? May maybe this is a 2012 election scheme for the obama administration?
Is this like a billy the kid conspiracy? You would think the american people would want...
Osama Bin Laden still alive? Osama buried at sea I am not buying it a barack obama birther II conspiracy forensic proof unavailable? May maybe this is a 2012 election scheme for the obama administration?
Is this like a billy the kid conspiracy? You would think the american people would want...
ABC News' Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) reports: Now that bin Laden has been killed and his body has been positively identified, what is to be done with his remains?
U.S. officials tell me the last thing they want is for his burial place to become a terrorist shrine.
To avoid that, an informed...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday hailed Osama bin Laden's death as a key turning point in the world's struggle against terrorism.
"The death of Osama bin Laden, announced by President (Barack) Obama last night, is a watershed moment in our common global fight against terrorism," Ban...
WASHINGTON/ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. assault on his Pakistani compound on Monday, then quickly buried at sea, in a dramatic end to the long manhunt for the al Qaeda leader who had become the most powerful symbol of global terrorism.
World leaders hailed bin...
It’s not shocking that Osama bin Laden was found in a comfortable Pakistan mansion—what’s shocking is that the U.S. pretends the country isn’t a harbor for terrorists. Plus, full coverage of bin Laden’s death.
To me, as an American Muslim, it’s significant that bin Laden is dead...
DNA tests on the body of Osama bin Laden showed a virtual 100 percent match to relatives, and a woman believed to be his wife also identified him by name, a senior U.S. intelligence official told reporters on Monday.
The United States was now reviewing a large cache of materials seized at the...
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says the world is better and safer because of the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Speaking at the White House, Obama said bin Laden's death show that the United States has kept its commitment to seeing that justice is done.
Obama also praised the...
Secretive and highly mythologized special forces carry out one of the biggest counterterrorism missions in U.S. history
Death Comes for the Master Terrorist: Osama bin Laden (1957-2011)
Almost 10 years ago, Osama bin Laden ghosted away from the Afghan battlefields. Since then, it is as if the...
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