Osama's third wife accuses first of betrayal
by IANS
London: The third and youngest wife of Osama bin Laden has accused his first spouse of betraying the Al Qaeda chief and revealing his location. The two wives -- currently in custody in Pakistan -- were involved in a "vicious catfight" when the elder accused the younger wife of "sticking to Osama like a prostitute", The Sun, the popular tabloid, reported here. The two are in custody since bin Laden...  
05:54 PM, Mar 15, 2012

Pak Taliban demand release of bin Laden's widows Dera Ismail Khan: The Pakistan Taliban will attack government, police and military officials if three of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's widows are not released from Pakistani custody, a spokesman for the militant group said on Friday. Pakistan's government has charged bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering and staying in the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday. "If the family of Osama bin Laden...  
09:38 AM, Mar 11, 2012

Pak Taliban demand release of Osama's widows Dera Ismail Khan: The Pakistan Taliban will attack government, police and military officials if three of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's widows are not released from Pakistani custody, a spokesman for the militant group said on Friday. Pakistan's government has charged bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering and staying in the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday. "If the family of Osama bin Laden...  
04:33 AM, Mar 10, 2012

Was Osama deceived by his wife in Zawahiri plot? New York: Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted fugitive who spent his last days being sidelined from al-Qaeda despite having created the terror outfit, was probably betrayed by one of his jealous wives and his deputy. It seems all was not well in Osama bin Laden's safe house in Pakistan towards the end, the New York Times reported saying there was "poisonous mistrust" between Osama's three wives, with one...  
05:17 PM, Mar 09, 2012

Pakistan charges Osama bin Laden's widows Islamabad: Pakistan's interior minister says Osama bin Laden's three widows have been charged with illegally entering and living in the country. The three have been in detention in Pakistan since May last year, when US commandos raided the house where they, bin Laden and several children were staying. The commandos killed bin Laden. Malik said on Thursday the three had been charged in court, but he did not say when...  
09:38 AM, Mar 09, 2012

New controversy over Osama's sea burial London: In a new twist to Osama bin Laden saga, emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm say the body of the al Qaeda leader was actually sent to the US for cremation than buried in sea. According to the emails, bin Laden was shot and killed during the famous Navy SEAL Team Six raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and was transported back to the US and cremated....  
07:28 AM, Mar 08, 2012

Osama's sea burial rakes up fresh controversy London: In a new twist to Osama bin Laden saga, emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm say the body of the al Qaeda leader was actually sent to the US for cremation than buried in sea. According to the emails, bin Laden was shot and killed during the famous Navy SEAL Team Six raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and was transported back to the US and cremated....  
08:10 PM, Mar 07, 2012

Osama's family members to leave Pakistan Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have allowed family members of slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, including his widows and children, to leave the country, a media report said on Tuesday. A Yemeni brother-in-law of bin Laden has arrived in Pakistan to take away his two Yemeni widows, the mass circulation Urdu language Jang newspaper quoted official sources as saying. Bin Laden was killed by US special forces in an early...  
11:40 AM, Mar 06, 2012

Chandigarh: VHP stalls shoot of film on Osama Chandigarh: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) protestors stalled the shoot of Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow's biopic on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad killing. VHP activists were upset with the fact that the market at Sector 15 was converted into Lahore for the film, with all shop hoardings in Urdu and autos showing Lahore number plates. Local traders were protesting against the market being out of bounds for the public for 11 hours. Traders...  
03:34 PM, Mar 02, 2012

Osama hid terror codes in 2 copies of the Bible
by IANS
London: Slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden kept two copies of the Bible where he wrote secret clues to future terror attacks to be conducted across the globe, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The two copies of the Bible were found hidden at the house in Pakistan's Abbottabad city, close to Islamabad, where the world's most-wanted terrorist was killed by US Navy Seals in May last year, The Sun...  
11:20 AM, Mar 01, 2012

Friday Release: Angst of twenties in 'LPNY' New Delhi: Ali Zafar is not the first Pakistani actor to try his hands in the Hindi film industry. From Mohsin Khan and Javed Sheikh to Meera and Veena Malik, Bollywood has given many Pakistani actors a chance but none of them capitalized the breaks offered. Ali Zafar is one of the rare Pakistani actors who got the opportunity to play the lead role in a big budget Bollywood film....  
12:11 PM, Feb 29, 2012

Pak: Osama Bin Laden's house demolished Abbottabad: Pakistani authorities have reduced the house where Osama bin Laden lived for years before he was killed by US commandos to rubble, destroying a concrete symbol of the country's association with one of the world's most reviled men. Workers completed the demolition job in the garrison town of Abbottabad in northwest Pakistan on Monday. The al-Qaida leader moved into the three-story house in 2005. Acting on intelligence gathered by...  
12:12 PM, Feb 27, 2012

Teen was 'singing about' Osama in plane disruption: US Portland: A 19-year-old from Saudi Arabia who authorities say forced a plane to make an emergency landing when he lit an electronic cigarette, mentioned Osama bin Laden and tried to hit fellow passengers pleaded not guilty to interfering with a plane crew. A lawyer for Yazeed Mohammed A Abunayyan told a judge on Friday that his client suffers from unspecified mental health issues that require care at the Multnomah County...  
09:12 AM, Feb 26, 2012

Pakistan demolishes compound where Osama lived Abbottabad: Local residents say Pakistan has started to demolish the compound in the northwest city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by US commandos in May 2011. Two residents say the government brought in three mechanized backhoes on Saturday afternoon and began destroying the tall outer walls of the compound after sunset. They set up floodlights to carry out the work. The residents spoke...  
10:47 PM, Feb 25, 2012

Pak memogate: Ijaz to depose via video link Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have finalised arrangements to record via a video link from London the testimony of American businessman Mansoor Ijaz regarding a mysterious memo that had sought US help to stave off a possible coup last year. Zahid Bukhari, the lawyer of Pakistan's former envoy to the US, Husain Haqqani, and two of his associates were issued British visas on Tuesday to go to London to cross-examine Ijaz. Haqqani...  
08:30 AM, Feb 22, 2012

ISI hired architect for Osama compound: Report Washington: An architect regularly employed by the ISI worked on the compound in which Osama bin Laden sheltered for years in Abbottabad and the slain al Qaeda chief communicated regularly with LeT from his hideout, a media report said on Saturday. Though the original property records for the compound near the elite Pakistan Military Academy have disappeared, the architect who worked on the structure was regularly employed by the ISI,...  
07:49 AM, Feb 19, 2012

Did Musharraf know bin Laden's hiding place? Islamabad: Former president Pervez Musharraf knew that Osama bin Laden was hiding in the garrison town of Abbottabad and the Pakistani intelligence itself had made the safe house that sheltered him, a former ISI chief has alleged, according to a media report. Former CIA official Bruce Riedel quoted ex-ISI chief Gen (retired) Ziauddin Khwaja alias Ziauddin Butt, as saying that Musharraf "knew bin Laden was in Abbottabad". In an article...  
02:26 AM, Feb 16, 2012

Live peacefully: Osama told his kids
by IANS
London: Slain al qaeda chief Osama bin Laden reportedly told his children to live peacefully in the West where they would get good education, his brother-in-law has revealed. Zakaria al-Sadah, whose sister was Osama's fifth wife, said the al qaeda chief did not want his children and grandchildren to follow the same path of terrorism like him, the Daily Mail reported. "He told his own children and grandchildren, go to...  
10:35 AM, Feb 14, 2012

MHA seeks report on terrorist meeting Osama New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday sought a report from the Maharashtra Police on the claim that an arrested accused of the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case had met former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2001. "We have taken serious note of the claim. We have sought a report from Maharashtra as we want to know details of the case," a Home Ministry official said....  
07:19 PM, Feb 09, 2012

13/7 accused met Osama in 2001: ATS sources Mumbai: Maharashtra Anti Terror Squad (ATS) sources on Tuesday said that July 13, 2011 Mumbai serial blast accused and Indian Mujahideen member Haroon Naik met slain terrorist Osama bin Laden in August 2001 in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. "Naik was part a group of operatives who were addressed by Osama in Bhawalpur," said the sources about the Indian Mujahideen member who was arrested for possessing fake currency notes. The sources said that...  
07:10 PM, Feb 07, 2012