A U.S. senator who viewed Osama Bin Laden's death photos made available by the CIA confirmed that the images were of the terror master mind and that they were 'pretty gruesome'.
The CIA will allow select U.S. lawmakers see the grisly photos of the dead Bin Laden, in order to eliminate doubts over the killing of the terror mastermind.
After numerous rumors and conspiracy theories regarding the death of Osama Bin Laden, the CIA announced today that they plan to show photos of Bin Laden's corpse to selected lawakers of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee members. Senate members can choose to view the images at the CIA agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Pakistan may now allow United States to question bin Laden’s wives and children, who have been in custody of the Pakistani forces, said a U.S. official on Monday.
Tensions between the United States and Pakistan are rising - which top level officials have already anticipated - in the wake of a momentous U.S. Special Forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden in northern Pakistan last week.
Osama bin Laden was “cash-strapped” during his final days and his al-Qaeda terrorist group had divided into two factions, according to a senior Pakistani intelligence official.
The CIA maintained a safe house in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad for a small team of spies who conducted extensive surveillance over a period of months on the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Special Operations forces this week, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Pakistan has warned the United States and other countries that they will face serious consequences from its military in the event they stage any more unauthorized raids like the one that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden had 500 euros in cash and two telephone numbers sewn into his clothing on Sunday when he was killed, leading intelligence officials to believe he was ready to flee, according to some members of Congress briefed on the matter, according to a report.
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.
The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency admitted that American officials kept their Pakistani counterparts in the dark about the operation to kill Osama Bin Laden because they feared the plan would be jeopardized.
The operation that led to the killing of the world's most-wanted terrorist Osama Bin-Laden was almost nine-month old but surprised the world over its ease and success, due to the crucial role played by the United States Navy SEALs, a wing from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), previously known as SEAL Team Six, under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command, in conjunction with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives.
Osama Bin Laden was killed by the CIA in a mansion just outside Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan . Obama confirmed that the US has the body of Osama Bin Laden. No Americans were harmed in the operation.
President Barack Obama will announce a shift his top military and intelligence leadership ranks with on Thursday, as the nearing retirement of Defense Secretary Robert Gates will prompt a move to replace him with CIA Director Leon Panetta and fill Panetta's position with well-regarded General David Petraeus, the top military official in Afghanistan.
Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA has spent the last five days in Ankara, Turkey, on a secret visit with high-ranking Turk officials to evaluate the crisis in Syria, according to Turkish newspaper, Sabah.
The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday declassified the United States Government's six oldest classified documents, dating from 1917 and 1918.
Seif al-Islam, son of Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi, has dismissed the importance of the country’s former foreign minister, Moussa Koussa, who has defected to Britain and reportedly providing intelligence to U.K. officials.
U.S. forces will significantly dilute their role in Libya though they played crucial role in the first phase of Operation Odyssey Dawn, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told the House Armed Services Committee.
A top NATO official on Thursday said there is no purely military solution to the crisis in Libya, as the coalition of North American and European nations took control of protecting civilians while rebels fighting Gaddafi-backed forces suffered setbacks after gains earlier in the week and talk of arming them grew.
Amidst reports that Libyan rebels are retreating in the face of the superior firepower of Moammar Gaddafi’s armies, the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has ruled out the possibility of providing weapons to the beleaguered rebel groups.
China's growing capabilities in cyber-warfare and intelligence gathering are a formidable concern to the United States, the top intelligence official told a Senate panel on Thursday.
