Washington: A federal appeals court on Tuesday backed the US government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by US commandos.
The three-judge panel of the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia turned down an appeal from Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, which had filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the images.
The Defense Department said it didn't turn up anything pertinent to the FOIA. The CIA had found 52 such records, but withheld all of them, citing exemptions for classified materials and information specifically exempted by other laws.
In Tuesday's ruling, the appeals court said that the CIA properly withheld publication of the images of the al Qaeda leader. The court concluded that the photos used to conduct facial recognition analysis of bin Laden could reveal classified intelligence methods, and that images of bin Laden's burial at sea could trigger violence against American citizens....
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10:46 PM, May 21, 2013
Even almost two years after the world's most wanted terrorist was slain by American special forces, President Barack Obama's administration is refusing to release photos of Osama bin Laden's dead body, warning that this would risk "grave damage" to national security. Though media outlets worldwide had made a clamor for 52 photographs taken during 'Operation Geronimo', the Obama administration has stoutly resisted warning that the images could excite an angry,...
03:07 PM, Jan 11, 2013
London: US President Barack Obama put off three times operations to kill world's most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a new book has claimed. Citing unnamed sources within the joint operations command, Rich Miniter, a former 'Wall Street Journal' and 'Washington Times' reporter, claims that three 'kill' missions were called off by Obama in...
11:18 AM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: The US special operation in Pakistan's Abbottabad town in May last year that killed Osama bin Laden in his hideout appears to have been "unlawful" in the absence of clarification from the US, human rights group Amnesty International has said. "The US administration made clear that the operation had been conducted under the US's theory of a global armed conflict between the US and al Qaeda, in which...
08:03 AM, May 25, 2012
US government is still deliberating whether it can be compelled to release the photographs and video showing the dead al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden. ...
11:31 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Washington: Public disclosure of graphic photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden after US commandos killed him would damage national security and lead to attacks on American property and personnel, the Obama administration contends in a court documents. In a response late on Monday to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group seeking the imagery, Justice Department attorneys said the CIA has...
09:13 AM, Sep 28, 2011
New York: New details have emerged on how US navy SEALs gave Osama bin Laden a 'blunt' sea burial to end his myth, after they killed the al Qaeda chief during a raid in Pakistan's garrison town of Abbottabad. The SEALs planned disposal of bin Laden's body on the basis on a similar burial they carried out for Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a top al Qaeda leader in East Africa,...
09:59 PM, Aug 01, 2011
Philadelphia: The daring secret mission to get Osama bin Laden by elite US forces will be told in the pages of a new graphic novel that aims to shed more light - with a bit of creative license - on the event. Written by retired US Marine Capt. Dale Dye and Julia Dye, the 88-page hardcover "Code Word: Geronimo" takes a look at the mission that is free from politics,...
06:33 PM, Jun 29, 2011
Peshawar: Pakistan's Taliban, a close ally of al Qaeda, plans to attack American targets abroad to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden, said one of it's senior leaders. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, has delivered on threats to avenge the killing of bin Laden by US special forces in a Pakistani town on May 2. It bombed an American consulate convoy, laid siege to a...
08:47 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Peshawar: A bomb attack near the Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least six people on Sunday, police said. "The blast took place at a bus stop and it seems the bomb was planted," said Raheem Khan, a police inspector. Ten people were wounded. Pakistan's Taliban militants, who have close ties to al Qaeda, have carried out a series of attacks to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden by...
01:25 PM, Jun 05, 2011
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday formed a commission headed by a Supreme Court judge to investigate the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a covert US military operation in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad. The five-member commission constituted to investigate the "Abbottabad incident" will be headed by Justice Javed Iqbal of the apex court, said a brief statement from the premier's office. The...
11:02 PM, May 31, 2011
Washington: For a small cadre of CIA veterans, the death of Osama bin Laden was more than just a national moment of relief and closure. It was also a measure of payback, a settling of a score for a pair of deaths, the details of which have remained secret for 13 years. Tom Shah and Molly Huckaby Hardy were among the 44 people killed when a truck bomb exploded outside...
12:54 PM, May 28, 2011
New Delhi: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf called US President Barack Obama arrogant. In an interview with CNN, Musharraf said Operation Geronimo, the US raid that killed al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, was an act of war against Pakistan. CNN: President Obama said this week on a British television show while on a state visit to Britain, that if the same event arose again, he would do the same...
11:16 AM, May 25, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani Taliban militants claimed responsibility on Monday for an attack on the headquarters of the naval air force, storming the base in the city of Karachi in their most brazen action since the killing of Osama bin Laden in a US raid. The Pakistan Taliban, which is allied with al Qaeda, said the attack was to avenge the al Qaeda leader's killing on May 2. Bin Laden was shot...
01:20 PM, May 23, 2011
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Not only is the Pakistani public angry, but this is the first time in the country's 63 years that the Army chief and the head ...
10:13 AM, May 23, 2011
London: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik believes the US had a mole right inside Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout and this was how the al Qaeda chief was tracked down to the compound, a media report said on Sunday. Top US officials said after the raid that they were only partially certain of Osama's presence inside the $ 1 million mansion, but Malik says only definitive information could have led...
05:42 PM, May 22, 2011
Washington: Rejecting Pakistan's warnings that it would not allow more Abbottabad-like operations in it's territory, the US has said that it will go after al-Qaeda leadership anywhere in the world if it had actionable intelligence on high value targets. "We have made it clear to people around the world that if we locate someone who has been part of the al-Qaeda leadership, then you get him or we will get...
05:39 PM, May 20, 2011
Islamabad: A majority of Pakistani's surveyed in a poll appeared to be aggrieved over the death of Osama bin Laden, with 51 per cent describing their emotions as "grief" though one-third said they were unconcerned by the incident. The nation-wide poll was conducted by Gallup Pakistan during May 7-10, less than a week after bin Laden was killed in a raid by US special forces in the garrison city of...
05:51 PM, May 16, 2011
Washington: A Florida-based imam of Pakistani origin, and his two sons are among five persons charged by US authorities for providing financial and material support to the Pakistani Taliban. FBI agents arrested Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76, and his son Irfan Khan, 37, in South Florida on Saturday. Both are US citizens and residents of Miami. Hafiz Khan is the imam of a mosque in Miami. One of his...
09:36 PM, May 14, 2011
Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's high-profile political visit to Afghanistan and cementing of ties with a strategic partnership "are all but certain to raise hackles in Pakistan," a leading US daily said on Friday, as the American media took unusual interest in his Kabul trip. "With a high-profile political visit and a promise of more aid, India moved ahead on Thursday to cement it's ties with the government of Afghan...
06:49 PM, May 13, 2011
