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The Secretary General of Iran’s Supreme Council for Human Rights, Mohammad Javad Larijani, said the Al-Qaeda chieftain deserved to have a fair trial rather than face a “unilateral execution” by American commandos.

Sen. John McCain, R-AZ on Wednesday called water boarding torture and said the information that lead to Osama bin Laden did not come from detainees subjected to the interrogation technique.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the US Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan will receive an upgrade in security over concerns that the commandos and their families may be subject to threats by terrorists.

Al Shabaab, a Somali-based al-Qaeda organization has threatened to kill Obama’s 88-year-old Kenyan grandmother, Sarah Onyango Obama.

On his first visit to Afghanistan since the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, India’s Prime Minister vowed his steadfast support for the fledgling new government in Kabul.

Osama bin Laden's journal found by U.S. sources who raided his northern Pakistan mansion last week reveals the deceased al-Qaeda leader urged followers make a single attack that would kill thousands of Americans, look beyond New York to other U.S. cities, and strike on significant days, according to a report.

Amidst growing questions over the legality of the killing of Osama bin Laden, US Attorney General Eric Holder defended the commando raid that resulted in the death of the former al-Qaeda terror chief.

Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasoul, in his first visit to China since he took office in January, said in Beijing on Wednesday that the elimination of Osama bin Laden was ‘positive’ and will make Afghanistan's transition process easier.

The U.S. said on Thursday the killing of Osama Bin Laden was not an assassination and that the U.S. Navy SEALs who stormed his hideout and killed him were on a 'kill or capture' mission.

The head of al-Qaida's Yemen-based wing has vowed to fight on after the killing of Osama bin Laden, saying: What is coming is greater and worse in a statement posted on the internet on Wednesday.

What was discovered in bin Laden's documents.

U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said there is no apparent evidence that senior Pakistani officials harbored and protected Osama bin Laden, although he concedes some people in Pakistan must have been aware of the terror chieftain’s existence inside the country.

Grenades were thrown at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Karachi, Pakistan by two unknown assailants on a motorcycle on Wednesday in what might be the first violence response to the killing of Osama bin Laden in the country last week.

The al-Qaeda chief of Yemen has warned the U.S. and the West that the killing of Osama bin Laden will intensify the jihad (holy war) by the terrorist organization, according to SITE monitoring group

The Indian government has placed the names of five senior Pakistani military officers on a list of fifty “most wanted” criminals that it seeks to extradite so they can face trial on charges of terrorism.

U.S. President Barack Obama will make a speech to the Muslim world in the wake of the assassination of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

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.

French police arrested seven persons, including one Indian national in Paris on Tuesday as security was tightened in the city on the sidelines of post-Osama bin Laden's death.

Omar, 30, said he always disagreed with his father over the violent means and had sent numerous messages denouncing them and urging him to “change his ways”. But even the U.S. forces which had killed Osama have violated the international law by killing an unarmed terrorist leader without a trial, he said in statement issued by the Bin Laden family but signed only by him. The statement was the first by the family after Osama's killing.

The U.S. got its most wanted criminal when U.S. Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden but the troops left behind a key piece of secret technology they tried to destroy in the frantic, tense minutes when they raided the al-Qaeda leader's northern Pakistan compound: a Stealth Helicopter.

The youngest son of Osama bin Laden may have escaped the U.S. commando raid on the compound in northern Pakistan where the al-Qaeda terror chief was killed, according to Pakistani security officials.