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The Independent
| 2 years ago
Mindful of the hour-long queue at last year's general election, I arrived to find the wind whistling through a deserted polling station at 9am yesterday. As the tumbleweed began drifting past, I was joined by two other people who were promptly given...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 2 years ago
Kabul, Afghanistan Over the past several days, there has been much speculation among pundits that the killing of Osama bin Laden could provide an opportunity for the Taliban to join peace talks.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 2 years ago
Sources said airports across the country have been asked to be on alert by intelligence agencies. Though there is no specific input of terror strike, officials have been asked to tighten security as a precautionary measure, sources added. Vulnerable...
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Denver Post
| 2 years ago
Afghanistan's Taliban said Tuesday that it would be "premature" to comment on U.S. claims that the al-Qaeda leader had been killed. "As the Americans did not present sufficient evidence to prove their claim and also sources close to Osama bin Laden...
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The Boston Globe
| 2 years ago
The U.N.'s top human rights official says the global body wants details on the death of Osama bin Laden...High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says the raid on the al-Qaida leader's hideaway in Pakistan "was a complex operation, and it...
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YourTango
| 2 years ago
While your neighbors celebrate and your Twitter feed goes into overdrive, your boyfriend pores over his computer, mumbling about the national hive mind. Sensing a tirade, you calmly ask him what's up only for him to calmly reply that the whole thing'...
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NewKerala
| 2 years ago
The scheduled visit of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chief Robert S Mueller to New Delhi tomorrow stands cancelled, official sources said. Though no reason has been given for the change in plans, the engagement of the US administration with...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 2 years ago
Breaking News Pakistan says had no knowledge of US bin Laden raid Pakistan on Tuesday denied any prior knowledge of the US. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, but said it had been sharing information about the targeted compound with the CIA since 2009.
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 2 years ago
Breaking News Pakistan has bin Laden wife, children in custody A senior Pakistani intelligence official said one of Osama bin Laden's daughters had seen her father being shot dead by US forces, and was one of about 10 relatives of the Al-Qaeda leader...
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Money Morning
| 2 years ago
The finding and killing of Osama bin Laden after 10 years of searching is clearly being heralded as an enormous U.S. victory. But once you look past the news itself, the death of bin Laden brings to light some highly worrisome revelations about...
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Asia Times Online
| 2 years ago
United States officials modified their narrative on Osama bin Laden's killing on Monday in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad to protect Pakistan's broader interests against threats from militants, saying that the Pakistanis had little involvement...
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United Press International
| 2 years ago
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden , killed by the U.S. forces in Pakistan, was an "outsider" in the country," Pakistan's information minister said. Speaking to reporters on the killing of bin Laden Sunday night by a U.S. Abbottabad, northeast of...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 2 years ago
But some airports and local security officials said they were on heightened alert. Airports and other potential targets of terrorist attack operated Monday in a state of heightened vigilance following the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a...
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United Press International
| 2 years ago
House Republican said Monday he has some "hard questions" for Pakistan about Osama bin Laden living in that country...Yes, I want to know more answers about what did you actually know about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts...Remember, their interests...
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Arizona Republic
| 2 years ago
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are warning law enforcement across the country that Osama bin Laden's death will likely inspire homegrown extremists in the U.S. to try to carry out attacks in the near-term. The agencies issued a joint...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 2 years ago
We did not notify any of our counter-terrorism partners in advance," a senior US defense official said on Monday, a day after President Barack Obama announced bin Laden had been killed near Islamabad. (Reuters)
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International Business Times
| 2 years ago
Text Size Agence France-Presse (AFP) said the Osama Bin Laden's Widespread Death Photos which have been broadcasted by at least two Pakistani TV stations and Spread widely are fake. The AFP said the lower half of Laden's face in the death photo is...
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Big News Network
| 2 years ago
The death of Osama bin Laden in a bloody raid on an isolated mansion near Islamabad is not a triumph for justice, but a tragedy. Bin Laden was a resource that could have brought so much understanding and knowledge about the wars being fought over the...
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International Business Times
| 2 years ago
Reuters Osama bin Laden Mansion After 10 years of searching in hopes of locating bin Laden in some desolate cave, bin Laden was finally found in a million dollar mansion. The compound, located in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a medium size city located about...
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TMZ
| 2 years ago
Death Photo 8 minutes ago by TMZ Staff A photo reportedly showing a dead Osama bin Laden is already making its way around the Internet ... but it seems pretty obvious ... the photo is a fake...The White House has NOT released an official death...
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NOW Lebanon
| 2 years ago
Osama bin Laden was buried at sea after being shot to death in a US helicopter-borne raid on his fortified villa in Pakistan, US officials said Monday. "We wanted to avoid a situation where it would become a shrine," a US official said. And there was...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 2 years ago
The Homeland Security Department says the death of Osama bin Laden could inspire retaliatory attacks against the U.S. and Western targets. The department's "situational awareness alert," obtained by The Associated Press, says the attacks could come...
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Novinite
| 2 years ago
Just several hours after the US announced bin Laden's death, a bomb went off in Charsadda, Northwestern Pakistan, killing a woman and three children. The accident took place 53 km west of Abbottabad, where the former Al Qaeda leader was killed in a...
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KSAZ
| 2 years ago
A pair of big city police departments say they'll be extra vigilant following the killing of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. operation in Pakistan. The top Los Angeles counterterrorism commander says police will be stepping up intelligence monitoring to...
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Novinite
| 2 years ago
The information was reported Monday by GEO TV, citing Taliban representatives. According to Tehrik-i- Taliban Pakistan , TTP, (Student Movement of Pakistan ) Bin Laden is alive. The authorities in Pakistan have not yet issued an official statement in...
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The Star
| 2 years ago
Police will step up security in various important locations in the country following the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a pre-dawn operation in Pakistan on Monday. Federal police assistant director of management (Public Relations) ACP...
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Jerusalem Post
| 2 years ago
While many around the world celebrate the news of Osama Bin Laden 's death, fascinating reports of how, after a decade, the US finally managed to trace bin Laden to the compound outside Islamabad where he was killed, have begun to come to light.
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Taiwan News
| 2 years ago
Pakistan's first official statement about the operation to kill bin Laden said Monday's raid was a U.S. operation. Bin Laden was killed an a luxury house in the town of Abbottabad not far from a Pakistani military academy, raising questions over...
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NOW Lebanon
| 2 years ago
The body of Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea after he was killed by US covert forces in Pakistan, US media reported Monday. Fox said a senior US official had confirmed to them that bin Laden's body had been buried in the sea,...
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United Press International
| 2 years ago
Six children and two wives of slain al-Qaida head Osama bin Laden were taken into custody by Pakistani forces, China's Xinhua said, quoting a local channel. One of bin Laden's sons was killed during the operation, the report said.
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Kuwait News Business
| 2 years ago
Washington, May 2, 2011 (AFP) -The United States did not notify Pakistani allies about its operation against Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a senior US administration official said Monday. "We shared this intelligence on the compound with no other...
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The independent
| 2 years ago
Osama bin Laden was in a compound two hours outside of Islamabad Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the attacks of September 11 and the man who ever since has remained an elusive, shadowy presence at the centre of perhaps the world's greatest manhunt,...
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Adelaide Now
| 2 years ago
Terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was shot in the head as he exchanged fire with covert US operatives at a compound in Pakistan, according to reports. A small team of US operatives killed bin Laden early today in Abbottabad, about 50km north of...
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The Dish Rag
| 2 years ago
When President Barack Obama addressed the nation late on Sunday night to announce the death of Al Quaeda leader Osama Bin Laden , he confirmed that the U.S. "took custody of [Bin Laden's] body." Special Operations forces confirmed through forensic...
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Pak Tribune
| 2 years ago
A Pakistani security official on Monday told AFP that he could confirm Osama bin Laden had been killed in a "highly sensitive intelligence operation", but provided no immediate further details. "Yes I can confirm that he was killed in a highly...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 2 years ago
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a mastermind of the largest terrorist attack in American history, was killed Sunday in Pakistan in a military operation after the U.S. learned of his location. Osama bin Laden's death is likely to have a dramatic...
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Reuters
| 2 years ago
Analysis & Opinion Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden speaks in this still image taken from video released on a website September 7, 2007. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad, a U.S. source...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 2 years ago
New Delhi US forces killed Osama bin Laden in a shootout at a mansion north of Pakistan 's capital Sunday night, culminating an aggressive use of American intelligence assets inside the country.
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Big News Network
| 2 years ago
President Barack Obama says the United States has conducted an operation that's killed Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks. Speaking from the White House in a late night address, Obama said a small team of Americans launched a...
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Stupid Celebrities Gossip
| 2 years ago
President Barack Obama will be holding an emergency press conference in a few minutes to confirm the death of terrorist and Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. CNN has reported that Bin Laden was killed last week by near a mansion in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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The Economic Times
| 2 years ago
Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden was killed on Sunday in a firefight with US forces deep inside Pakistan, President Barack Obama said, declaring "justice has been done" a decade after the September 11 attacks. The death of the reviled US enemy...
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Rediff
| 2 years ago
Over the past ten years thanks to the tireless work of our military we have disrupted Al Qaeda and we removed the Taliban from Afghanistan," US President Barack Obama said in a statement...And so I authorised the CIA to carry out the operation in...
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Associated Press
| 2 years ago
Osama bin Laden was killed in a helicopter raid on a mansion in an area north of the Pakistani capital, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Monday. Four helicopters launched the attack in the Bilal area of Abbottabad, about 100 kilometers north of...
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Kansas.com
| 2 years ago
President Barack Obama made the dramatic late-night announcement Sunday from the East Room of the White House, ending the long, elusive international manhunt for the leader of the al Qaida terror organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001,...
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CNN Blog
| 2 years ago
The official said he did not know who fired the shot that actually killed Bin Laden. [Updated, 12:06 a.m. ET] The crowd celebrating bin Laden's death outside the White House has grown significantly. Lots of cheering and waving of the U.S. flag. [...
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United Press International
| 2 years ago
Osama bin Laden , arguably the world's most notorious terrorist leader, has been killed in Pakistan, U.S. President Obama announced Sunday night. "We conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden," the president said in a televised address to...
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Adelaide Now
| 2 years ago
Osama bin Laden has been killed in a covert operation in Pakistan, US President Barack Obama has announced. Mr Obama has made an extraordinary televised address from the White House confirming bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11 terrorist...
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Merced Sun-Star
| 2 years ago
An American official says Osama bin Laden was killed in a mansion close to the Pakistani capital. A Pakistani intelligence official confirmed that the al-Qaida leader had been killed in Pakistan. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because...
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Los Angeles Times
| 2 years ago
A CIA -led operation has killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and recovered his body after a tortuous decadelong hunt for the elusive militant leader who commanded the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. government officials said Sunday night.
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The Australian
| 2 years ago
THE United States is expected to announce that Osama Bin Laden is dead. Osama Bin Laden is dead The US has the body 1.28pm The report of Bin Laden's death comes the week after UK's Daily Telegraph claimed to have been shown thousands of pages of...
