Washington: Osama bin Laden had planned to kill US President Barack Obama and General David Petraeus, who then was the top US commander in Afghanistan, and had issued instructions to Illyas Kashmiri to set up two units to target planes carrying them. According to the documents seized from the Abbottabad safe-house of bin Laden, where he was killed by US forces about a year ago, the then al-Qaeda leader wanted...
08:20 PM, May 03, 2012
It's been a year to the day when US Navy Seals stormed a secret compound in Pakistan and killed the world's most wanted terrorist - Osama bin Laden. ...
10:32 PM, May 02, 2012
The compound in Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden hid from authorities is now just a patch of dirt and rubble which children use as a playground. ...
11:19 AM, May 02, 2012
Los Angeles: Heidi Klum moved to formally end her marriage Friday from singer Seal a little over two months after they separated. The supermodel's divorce filing in a Los Angeles court draws to a close a storybook romance that included numerous testaments to their affection for one another, including renewing their wedding vows annually and throwing elaborate Halloween costume parties. The couple has four children together, including Klum's daughter from...
11:52 AM, Apr 09, 2012
New York: In one of the most detailed accounts of Osama bin Laden's life on the run, his youngest wife has told Pakistani investigators that the al Qaeda leader lived in five safe houses as he travelled across Pakistan with his family for nine years following the 9/11 attacks. The detailed account of bin Laden's life on the run has been given by his 30-year-old wife Amal Ahmad Abdul Fateh,...
11:09 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Somalia: A British tourist freed on Wednesday by Somali pirates after six months in captivity said she did not know for weeks that her husband was killed in the raid on a luxury beach resort on the Kenyan coast. "I just assumed he was alive," Judith Tebbutt said, speaking haltingly in a video broadcast by the BBC, adding that her son, Oliver, told her of the killing. "That was difficult,"...
02:41 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New York: Seal and Heidi Klum have announced that their storybook marriage is coming to the end of the runway. In a statement Sunday night, the power couple announced their separation after rumors swirled over the weekend that a divorce was imminent. "While we have enjoyed seven very loving, loyal and happy years of marriage, after much soul searching we have decided to separate," the joint statement read. "We have...
12:12 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Kolkata: One person was killed while six others were injured on Saturday night when a local train hit a stationary train at a platform in West Bengal's Nadia district, railway officials said. The head-on collision took place when the Shantipur-Sealdah local which was coming from the opposite direction hit the stationary Sealdah-Shantipur local train waiting at the number 2 platform of Fulia station. Three coaches of the Shantipur-Sealdah local were...
10:44 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended till March its order staying the sealing of unauthorised commercial units operating in residential localities in the national capital and asked the authorities to ensure that no fresh encroachments or regularisations were permitted during the period. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and Swatanter Kumar passed the direction on a bunch of pleas by commercial establishments challenging the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring...
04:54 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Washington: Eager to become the leader of al Qaeda, the then number two Aymen Zawahiri set up Osama bin Laden by repeatedly sending a courier to his hiding place in Abbottabad who had been interrogated by the CIA, a new book by a former SEAL has claimed. "Despite knowing that this operative was blown, Zawahiri used Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti to make repeated trips to Bin Laden's compound," says the...
09:35 AM, Nov 08, 2011
Las Vegas: A federal jury on Friday found an active-duty Navy SEAL guilty on 13 of 15 charges alleging he smuggled machine guns and explosives from Iraq and Afghanistan and conspired with three convicted co-defendants to sell them in the United States. The jury returned the verdict in US District Court after about 10 hours considering the fate of Petty Officer Nicholas Bickle. Prosecutors say federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,...
02:44 AM, Oct 08, 2011
Washington: US and Pakistani officials said on Saturday that al Qaeda's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the US believes to be on the verge of defeat. Al-Rahman was killed on Monday in the lawless Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, according to a senior administration official who insisted on anonymity to discuss intelligence issues. A Pakistani intelligence official...
04:36 PM, Aug 28, 2011
Washington: The media coverage of an event to mark the return of the bodies of 30 elite US troops killed in Afghanistan after their chopper was shot down by Taliban has been denied by the Pentagon, saying that there were "no identifiable remains" of these soldiers. Given the nature of the attack, there were "no identifiable remains" of the 30 troops, including 22 Navy SEALs, Pentagon spokesman Marine Col David...
01:36 PM, Aug 09, 2011
Washington: President Barack Obama pledged on Monday to forge ahead with his Afghan war strategy and the Pentagon sought to dispel fears of a Taliban resurgence after militants shot down a helicopter killing 30 US troops, mainly elite Navy SEALs. Saturday's crash was the deadliest incident for US forces since the war in Afghanistan began nearly a decade ago and followed a series of high-profile assassinations and attacks by the...
02:51 AM, Aug 09, 2011
Kabul: The US Navy SEALs and other troops whose helicopter was shot down in eastern Afghanistan had rushed to the mountainous area to help a US Army Ranger unit that was under fire from insurgents, two US officials said on Sunday. The rescue team had completed the mission, subduing the attackers who had the Rangers pinned down, and were departing in their Chinook helicopter when the aircraft was apparently hit,...
10:19 PM, Aug 07, 2011
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