President Barack Obama is not expected to make any public statements when he visits Ground Zero in New York on Thursday, just days after the announcement of the death of Osama Bin Laden after U.S. forces killed him in Pakistan.
U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has warned that the battle against Al Qaeda did not end with the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.
As the impact of the death of feared terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden is slowly sinking in across the world, Pakistan is bracing for unwelcome repercussions. On the one hand, the country could lose allies now that there is near-certain evidence that Islamabad was making a mockery of the hunt for Bin Laden. On the other, there would certainly be massive, violent revenge attacks from various terror outfits active in the country.
Obama's bin Laden speech photo staged
Almost immediately after the United States said it had killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the conspiracy theories started. But these conspiracy theories are being further fueled by today's decision from the Obama administration not to release pictures of his corpse.
President Barack Obama on Thursday announced that the White House will not release photos the deceased Osama bin Laden, saying we don't trot out this stuff as trophies, saying that doing so would create a national security risk.
Osama bin Laden was declared dead by the US government on May 1st. A team of elite US soldiers flew to a city 30 miles outside the Pakistani capital, landed in a walled compound that harbored bin Laden, got off the helicopters, found Bin Laden, and shot him in the head.
US special operations forces killed Osama Bin Laden this past Thursday but the slaying is raising major concerns that the United States has gone too far in judge, juror and executioner of the world's most wanted man. Further more, the killing could work against the US to stir up more anti-American sentiment among radical militants.
Osama Bin Laden's wife, who was in the late Al-Qaeda leader's compound in northern Pakistan on Sunday when U.S. military personnel made a raid, has been identified.
Less than 24 hours after President Obama’s announcement of the Al Qaeda leader’s death, Google had marked down his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on their maps and thousands have since written ‘reviews’ for what Google named “Osama Bin Laden’s Hideout Compound.”
Pittsburgh Steelers halfback Rashard Mendenhall remained a target of sharp criticism by Twitter users on Tuesday after he posted a message questioning whether news that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed should be cheered.
Reporters discovered marijuana plants growing just outside Osama bin Laden’s million-dollar mansion in Abbottabad, northwestern Pakistan this week.
Abbottabad was named after a British army officer named Major James Abbott who founded the city (and the outlying district) in 1853 when British India annexed the vast Punjab region.
Afghanistan officials have raised doubts about proclamations by Pakistan’s spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), that they did not know Osama bin Laden was living in their midst all these years.
Pervez Musharraf, the former President of Pakistan and chief of the army, has appeared all overt western media outlets defending his country from accusations its security and intelligence services harbored al-Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden.
Former President George W. Bush declined an invitation from the White House to visit Ground Zero in New York with President Barack Obama on Thursday four days after the announcement of the death of Osama Bin Laden.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan said intelligence failed on a global scale with respect to the search for Osama bin Laden.
When one of Osama Bin Laden's aides made a phone call last year, he unwittingly led U.S. pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world's most wanted terrorist.
Pittsburgh Steelers halfback Rashard Mendenhall remained a target of sharp criticism by Twitter users on Tuesday after he posted a message questioning whether news that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed should be cheered.
Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs slammed the US government for carrying out its kill operation against Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil without the permission or foreknowledge of the Pakistani government.
Osama bin Laden was unarmed when US commandoes stormed his compound in northern Pakistan and shot him to death on Sunday, according to new details provided by the U.S government.
At least one lawmaker has suggested that US aid to Pakistan – amounting to billions of dollars since September 11, 2001 – should be suspended until Pakistan explains why Osama bin Laden was found in a mansion located just 30 miles outside the nation’s capital.
