New Delhi: It has been a year since the US Navy SEALS stormed into a secret compound in the garrison town of Abbottabad in Pakistan and killed the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. US President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of the al Qaeda chief's death with a surprise visit to Afghanistan, signing a strategic pact with Kabul on Wednesday and delivering an election-year message to Americans that...
07:32 AM, May 02, 2012
Lahore: Residents of Bilal town in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad where Osama Bin Laden was killed last year have asked the government to build a "statue of peace" or a beautiful monument at the site of his compound to remind the world that there is no place for such a terrorist mastermind. Ahead of the first anniversary of the death of the al Qaeda chief on May 2,...
07:14 AM, May 02, 2012
Washington: Five suspects have been arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting to blow up a bridge in Ohio state, media reports said on Tuesday. The arrests were, however, not connected to the one-year anniversary of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's death. Instead, the suspects were described as anarchists, Xinhua reported citing local TV station WKYC. The FBI said the suspects had plotted to blow up the Cuyahoga Valley...
03:51 AM, May 02, 2012
Abbottabad: One year since US commandos flew into this Pakistani army town and killed Osama bin Laden, Islamabad has failed to answer tough questions over whether its security forces were protecting the world's most wanted terrorist. Partly as a result, fallout from the raid still poisons relations between Washington and Pakistan, where anti-American sentiment, support for Islamist extremism and anger at the violation of sovereignty in the operation can be...
08:01 PM, May 01, 2012
Washington: Some of the documents recovered from the Abbottabad hide out of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden will be released by the US later this week, a top Obama advisor has said. John Brennan, Assistant to the US President for Homeland Security and Counter terrorism, told audience at a Washington-based think tank on Monday that some of the documents seized in 2011 by US Special forces which killed Osama bin...
08:37 AM, May 01, 2012
Washington: Some of the documents US Navy commandos had seized from al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan will be released this week, a top Obama administration official said on Monday. "In documents we seized,he (Osama) confessed to 'disaster after disaster'. He even urged his leaders to flee the tribal regions, and go to places, 'away from aircraft photography and bombardment'," Deputy National Security Adviser to President Barack...
12:51 AM, May 01, 2012
Washington: The US does not plan to release images related to the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan fearing that this might incite emotions, a top counter terrorism official has said ahead of the first death anniversary of the al Qaeda chief. "There's no need to release the photos and video because there's no doubt whatsoever that bin Laden is dead," Deputy National Security Adviser to US...
02:01 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Washington: The US does not plan to release images related to the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan fearing that this might incite emotions, a top counter terrorism official said on Sunday ahead of the first death anniversary of the al Qaeda chief. "There's no need to release the photos and video because there's no doubt whatsoever that Bin Laden is dead," Deputy National Security Adviser to...
10:19 PM, Apr 29, 2012
London: Believe it or not, terror mastermind Osama bin Laden desperately tried to cling to his youth during his last days in Pakistan, and resorted to using hair dye and a type of natural aphrodisiac, a media report said. The 54-year-old terrorist was killed by US special forces in a unilateral operation at his compound in Pakistan's Abbottabad city near Islamabad in May last year. Before his death, bin Laden...
09:47 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Washington: Stung by lingering suspicions that it was complicit in sheltering Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's spy agency has claimed credit for helping US intelligence agencies locate the high-walled hideout of the terror mastermind. "The lead and the information actually came from US," a senior official of the Inter-Services Intelligence told Washington Post, in what the paper said was a push for recognition ahead of the anniversary of the stealth raid...
03:25 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Washington: Stung by lingering suspicions that it was complicit in sheltering Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's spy agency has claimed credit for helping US intelligence agencies locate the high-walled hideout of the terror mastermind. "The lead and the information actually came from US," a senior official of the Inter-Services Intelligence told Washington Post, in what the paper said was a push for recognition ahead of the anniversary of the stealth raid...
04:57 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Washington: Nearly a year after Osama bin Laden was killed in his Abbottabad home, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) claims it helped US locate the Al Qaeda chief's high-walled hideout. Osama was shot dead on May 2, 2011, at his Abbottabad house by US commandos, straining ties between Washington and Islamabad. "The lead and the information actually came from us," a senior ISI official told the Washington Post. Washington is sceptical...
12:48 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Islamabad: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had planned to mount indiscriminate attacks on the Pakistani soil before his killing in a covert US raid in Abbottabad, the documents seized by the Americans from the slain terrorist's compound in the Pakistani garrison city have suggested. The CIA shared intelligence about possible al Qaeda attacks inside Pakistan when officials of the two countries met to explore the way forward in resetting...
01:06 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Washington: There is no credible terrorist threat to the US by al Qaeda or its affiliated outfits on the eve of the first death anniversary of Osama bin Laden, even as these groups continue to plan attacks against America to revenge his death, the White House said on Thursday. "At this time we have no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, are plotting attacks in the US to...
11:31 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Islamabad: The family of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, killed almost a year ago by American special forces in a military town in northwest Pakistan, left Pakistan for Saudi Arabia early on Friday morning, the family lawyer told Reuters. The move ends months of speculation about the fate of the three widows and 11 children, who were detained by Pakistani security forces after the May 2 raid. "Yes, they're...
03:50 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Washington: There is no credible terrorist threat to the US by al Qaeda or its affiliated outfits on the eve of the first death anniversary of Osama bin Laden, even as these groups continue to plan attacks against America to revenge his death, the White House said on Thursday. "At this time we have no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, are plotting attacks in the US to...
12:48 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Tehran: Iran claimed on Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran in 2011 including that it was used to spy on Osama bin Laden's house weeks before he was killed by US forces. Iran also said it was building a copy of the surveillance aircraft. This type of drone has been used in Afghanistan for years and was used to keep...
11:02 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan is expected to deport Osama bin Laden's three widows and children to Saudi Arabia next week after the end of their jail term for illegally entering and living in the country, their lawyer claimed on Friday. Lawyer Mohammed Amir Khalil told the media that the 45-day jail term given to the widows and two grown-up daughters will end on April 17 and all members of the slain Al...
12:41 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Islamabad: Underlining that it has never broken its relations with US, Pakistan on Thursday said it wants "normal and mutually beneficial" ties with Washington but the shape of future bilateral relationship will be decided by an ongoing parliamentary review ordered by the government. "There is a mutual desire to have normal and mutually beneficial relations. We never broke our relations with the US. There is a problem and both sides...
06:25 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Washington: A child pornography suspect has been placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list to replace al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed by US forces in May 2011. Eric Justin Toth, 30, a former private school teacher, was indicted in 2008 in Maryland on one count related to producing child pornography, according to court records. Authorities found pornographic images on a camera in his possession,...
02:17 PM, Apr 11, 2012
