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The mission to destroy bin Laden sparked the creation of a chillingly bureaucratic process for deciding who would be on "kill lists," authorized for death at the hands of the CIA. It revolutionized the use of pilotless drones to find and attack milit
Despite having no Internet access in his hideout, Osama bin Laden was a prolific email writer who built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the U.S. government's best eavesdroppers. His methods, described in new detail to The Asso
Dear Editor, To Lee Wrights and Ray McGovern's guilt-ridden assertions that we should not celebrate the assassination (which is exactly what it was) of Osama bin Laden or question the benefits of such an act, I say nonsense! The celebra
Read LetterAmericans have been blind-sided over the killing of Osama bin Laden. A veteran journalist writing in his popular community newspaper column editorialized what prompted the killing of America’s Public Enemy No. 1.&nbs
Read Letter"As [I] condemned our father, we now condemn the President of the United States for ordering the execution of unarmed men and women," Omar Bin Laden wrote.
It is good that bin Laden is dead and justice is served. The way in which he was finally captured and killed shows that targeted retribution is far superior to wars of aggression and nation-building. In 2001, I supported giving the president the auth
Switzerland Defense Minister Ueli Maurer says there has been an increase in the recruitment of Swiss Muslims for militant training camps to train recruits to fight in Somalia and Yemen.
Tucked away in the Himalayan foothills, Abbottabad was Pakistan's best kept secret — until Osama bin Laden was killed within walking distance of the Pakistan Military Academy. So why Abbottabad? How was the world's most hunted man able to live near a
PAKISTANI authorities are reported to be considering demolishing Osama bin Laden's hideout in the garrison town of Abbottabad to prevent it becoming a rallying point for extremists. The walled compound where bin Laden was killed when US forces raided
"We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic."
Key US lawmakers urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a letter released Friday to support labeling Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups and craft a strategy to help Mexico defeat them. "The Mexican drug cartels present a dangerous thre
Yemen-based Islamist Anwar al-Awlaki - tipped as Osama Bin Laden's successor - urged a Mumbai-style massacre after being duped by a U.K. Sun investigative reporter.
Al Qaeda considered attacking the U.S. rail sector on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, U.S. government officials said. The al Qaeda leader or his associates had engaged in discussions or planning for a possible attack on a train insi
The U.S. might finally begin to wind down a near-decade-long war in Afghanistan, there is the countervailing prospect of the USA consolidating an official policy of assassination and violence as the way to impose Washington’s will on the Muslim world
the critically acclaimed author of psycho-political thrillers and the co-creator of the best-selling Tom Clancy's Net Force paperback series, Steve Pieczenik. Alex covers the latest on the Osama bin Laden assassination spectacle.
Lebanese terrorist organization Hizbullah whose home base is in the Middle East has established a sattelite base across the border in Mexico.
The new details suggested that the raid, though chaotic and bloody, was extremely one-sided, with a force of more than 20 Navy Seal members quickly dispatching the handful of men protecting Bin Laden. Administration officials said that the only sh
Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show 3 dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons. The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who ent
A US military mission that cornered and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan was nothing short of a miracle, said Peru's President Alan Garcia, who attributed the divine intervention to newly beatified pontiff John Paul II.
The intelligence find after the bin Laden compound raid is a jolt to bin Laden's network that could force its terror operatives to move into areas or initiate communications that make them more easily detectable.
Because bin Laden is dead, Americans are now united in the continuation of all the awful things we have done to ourselves because he was not quickly captured and killed after September 11, 2001.
In the hours after a team of U.S. Navy SEALs attacked Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan, the Facebook pages for the U.S. Navy, the SEALs, and U.S. Army all saw dramatic spikes in activity, as users flocked online to post about the event.
In the hours after a team of U.S. Navy SEALs attacked Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan, the Facebook pages for the U.S. Navy, the SEALs, and U.S. Army all saw dramatic spikes in activity, as users flocked online to post about the event.
As if a service with hundreds of millions of users needed to come of age, Twitter is said to have had its CNN moment Sunday night as the “place” where the news of the commando raid which killed Osama bin Laden was first shared.
Speaking at a White House briefing, counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said he had “99 percent” certainty the commando team killed bin Laden, thanks to “facial recognition, [his] height, [and] an initial DNA analysis.”
Officially, the team's name is classified and not available to the public, technically there is no team 6. A Tier-One counter-terrorism force similar to the Army's elusive Delta group, Team 6's mission rarely make it to paper much less the newspaper.
Bin Laden's body cleansed before sea burial. The Al-Qaida leader was buried at sea from the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the north Arabian Sea after being washed according to Islamic custom.
News that Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday during a U.S. firefight in Pakistan led to heaps of praise for military service members and President Barack Obama, even from his biggest political adversaries. Some GOP responses have been pretty bizarre.