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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan, when they were visiting Pakistan or Afghanistan. Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [vice-president] Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term,according to translated documents...
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Xtra News
| 1 year ago
Bin Laden struggled to control al Qaeda Newstalk ZB May 4, 2012, 7:48 am Documents released today suggest that just before his death, Osama bin Laden was struggling to stay in control of al Qaeda. US officials have released 17 letters of the...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times Peter Bergen That manhunt is the subject of Peter L. Bergen's latest, and fourth, book about Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. His first, Holy War, Inc., was published only weeks after 9/11 and drew upon his...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
While Osama Bin Laden was at times viewed as the ultimate terrorist mastermind deftly directing Al-Qaeda's global operations, declassified letters reveal an impotent figurehead plagued by Muslims suffering at the hands of his jihadi brothers. ...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Approximately 17 letters and notes from Bin Laden were published online by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S...The documents add granular detail to the portrait of the Al Qaeda founder as a frustrated executive. In them, he denies requests...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
12 There is no suggestion in the documents 'that there was institutional Pakistani support for Osama bin Laden' [Reuters] A selection of documents seized by the United States which detail the communiques of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden have been...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Osama bin Laden seemed frustrated with the local jihadi groups that caused sufferings on the Muslims and urged them to abort such attacks and instead focus on the US, documents seized by US forces from his Abbottabad safe house in Pakistan a year ago...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
Topics Osama bin Laden is shown watching himself on television, with U.S. President Barack Obama also on screen, in this video frame grab released by the U.S...Five videos were found in bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan after U.S...Al...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Pakistani girls cross the demolished compound in Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed last year. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP Dozens of documents taken by US special forces from Osama bin Laden 's compound during the raid in which the al-...
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Pak Tribune
| 1 year ago
Claiming that al Qaeda's leadership has been devastated, US President Barack Obama said "the tide has turned" in Afghanistan over the last three years. "We broke the Taliban's momentum...We devastated al Qaeda's leadership, taking out over 20 of...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
I was among the feckless journalists that wouldn't believe for days after the event a year ago that Osama bin Laden was killed or could be killed without the help of Pakistani intelligence. Many analysts staked their reputation over the inevitability...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
When Osama Bin Laden was shot dead a year ago, the official line was that he had spent almost five years hiding in total isolation. After the Al Qaeda leader was at long last rooted out, American and Pakistani authorities insisted he had never once...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
An unmanned stealth drone completes a test flight at a California air base. Rex Features In remarks on Monday, US counterterrorism adviser John Brennan admitted for the first time that US drones have killed civilians. "It is exceedingly rare, but it...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
Supporters of hard line pro-Taleban party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam- Nazaryati (JUI-N) carry portraits of the slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as they pray for bin Laden during an anti-US rally in Quetta yesterday on the first anniversary of the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
One year after the killing of Osama bin Laden, I have to wonder: what has America become? Once again, CBS TV's 60 Minutes was the focus of an American debate, one year after the killing of Osama bin Laden. A CIA interrogator, Puerto Rican American...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Hundreds of Pakistanis took to the streets Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's death...In Abbottabad, school children rallied at the site of bin Laden's compound, calling for peace and an end to U.S. drone...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Though federal and local law enforcement officials said there are no known threats aimed at New York City in light of Osama bin Laden's death anniversary, New York police are beefing up security measures as a precaution...Laden on May 2, 2011, when...
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War In Context
| 1 year ago
As a result of our efforts, he declared, the United States is more secure and the American people are safer...Unfortunately, however, there's good reason to doubt its veracity. The first point in need of recognition is that while the Obama...
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Vanity Fair
| 1 year ago
In a live speech from Afghanistan that mercifully did not interfere with last night's penultimate episode of New Girl , President Obama briefed the nation on the status of the war . And the status is: improving, with room for even more improvement...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
On the first anniversary of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden's death, United States officials are claiming the terror group is now a shadow of its former self. Chief counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan said America's drone campaign has left Al-...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
May 2, 2012 A year after the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the core of the terrorist organization has been greatly diminished, but the organization retains lethal influence as the node in a vast network of deadly Islamic terrorist...
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Rediff
| 1 year ago
If a new leader emerges who is able to rally Al Qaeda cadres around and motivate them to act, we may still face new acts of mass casualty terrorism, warns B Raman A year after the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of the United States Navy Seals...
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Franklin Lakes Oakland Suburban News
| 1 year ago
American special ops forces converged on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan and killed the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the firefight that followed. The raid has been lauded for courage and determination, an example of can-do...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
Taliban rebels attacked foreign targets in Kabul on Wednesday, hours after US President Barack Obama said on a surprise visit on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death that a "time of war" was ending. A suicide car bomb attack rocked the "Green...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 1 year ago
Osama bin Laden was devising a strategy for overthrowing Afghan President Hamid Karzai and controlling Afghanistan once the U.S. left the country, said a former U.S. official familiar with the cache of notes and letters that were seized last year in...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 1 year ago
US and allied officials said they are increasingly concerned that doctors working with al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate will implant bombs inside living militants in order to try to circumvent airport security measures and bring down aircraft.
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney on Tuesday ate cheese pizza with firefighters and held a news conference to declare that he would be a tough commander in chief. At the same moment, President Obama was aboard Air Force One on a secret trip to Kabul , putting the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney marked the anniversary of Osama bin Laden 's death Tuesday by alternately praising President Obama for ordering the targeted killing of the terrorist leader and slamming him for politicizing the moment. I think it's totally appropriate...
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Daily Nation
| 1 year ago
Rating Security agencies around the world were on Tuesday on high alert on the first anniversary of the killing of the mastermind of Al Qaeda terror group, Osama bin Laden. In Kenya, security services are at an unprecedented state of alert amid...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
Obama was expected on Tuesday to sign a strategic partnership on future US-Afghan ties once American troops have pulled out of Afghanistan in 2014 with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, White House officials told reporters. The US president, making only...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
International Strategy for Cyberspace in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2011...President Barack Obama 's top counter-terrorism adviser publicly acknowledged the administration's use of drone strikes against suspected terrorist targets and defended them,...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama says his administration is not politicizing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, pushing back on criticism that the White House is indulging in "excessive celebration" over the terrorist leader's death...Without mentioning...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Osama bin Laden 's personal notes and letters, which were seized a year ago today in the U.S. raid on his compound in Pakistan , show a leader removed from day to day operations of the terrorist organization he founded and increasingly frustrated...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Last year, the state department's Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications released a brief video on YouTube with clips of exuberant young people participating in popular demonstrations in the Middle East. Interspersed with these dramatic...
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Baltimore Sun
| 1 year ago
Authorities have arrested five self-described anarchists in Cleveland for allegedly plotting to blow up a bridge but the group was monitored as part of an undercover FBI operation, a U.S...The group had no ties to foreign terrorist organizations and...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
His tight-knit band of terrorists wreaked havoc on the United States , taking down the twin icons of America's financial might in New York , striking at the main symbol of America's military power in Washington , and murdering more than 3,000 people...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
He died May 2, 2011. "DHS understands that threats to our security continue to evolve. Although al Qaeda, its affiliates and allies have expressed continued interest to carry out attacks against Western interests, we have no indication of any...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
US airport authorities are on high alert and are taking special precautions on the one-year anniversary of America's most wanted fugitive, Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept.11 terrorist attack on the United States. Share This Story ABC...
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KION
| 1 year ago
If you want breaking news sent to your email just click here. News Right Now Local News Updated: Tuesday, May 1 2012 5:55 AM EDT 2012-05-01 09:55:01 GMT One year ago, President Obama announced the killing of the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
The felling of his top commanders one after the other by US drone strikes had plunged the slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden into gloom in his last days and he was mulling changing the name of the group, a top US official said. Bin Laden rued "...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
A year after Osama bin Laden was hunted down and killed at his safehouse in Pakistan's military town of Abbottabad by elite American forces, an event that made splashing headlines the world over, strategic analysts across the spectrum agreed that...
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
S '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Agencies : Washington, Tue May 01 2012, 14:32 hrs US says drone strikes were "legal" and "ethical" tools against al-Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan dismissing Islamabad's concerns over the attacks.
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Osama bin Laden's secret compound in Pakistan and may have fundamentally changed al-Qaida as we know it. Phill Mudd, Former CIA/FBI Counter-Terrorism Official Brennan was careful to talk about the al-Qaida core, and the distinction he's making is...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Osama bin Laden bemoaned disaster after disaster inflicted by the US onslaught on al Qaeda before his death a year ago and even mulled changing his terror group's name, a top US official said. President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism aide John...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
Osama bin Laden believed al-Qaeda had developed a bad reputation in the Muslim world Before his death, Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda was a shadow of its former self. The once-powerful terrorist organization had been decimated by a decade of pounding by...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
30 April 2012 Security at airports in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East has been stepped up amid fears terrorists may be using bombs surgically implanted inside their bodies in attempt to blow up planes on the eve of Osama bin Laden's death,...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Among the concerns is that terrorists will ingest explosives and try to detonate them on a commercial flight, the officials said. For a long time there has been a concern of attacks on aircraft surrounding the anniversary of Bin Laden's death, one...
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Daily News
| 1 year ago
Powered by FeedBurner Questions/Answers Questions and answers on Daily News stories from readers like you. Security was expected to be on heightened alert at Los Angeles International Airport and other Southland airports for tomorrow's one-year...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
The Washington Post The Obama administration formally acknowledged for the first time Monday its use of drone strikes against terrorism suspects, lifting but not removing the shroud of secrecy that surrounds the nation's expanding use of targeted...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
US President Barack Obama has ordered more openness about the secretive drone war pounding al Qaeda in Pakistan, a top official said Monday, mounting the firmest defense yet of the program. In a landmark speech on counter-terrorism ethics, Obama...
