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Osama bin Laden's Son May Have Escaped

Widows' claim adds to confusion over raid

(Newser) - One of Osama bin Laden's sons may have escaped the raid by Navy SEALs, according to ABC News and British papers the Telegraph and Daily Mail . It seems more guesswork than anything at this point, though. Bin Laden's three widows have reportedly told Pakistani authorities that one son...

Pakistan Secretly OK'd bin Laden Hit—10 Years Ago

Gave Bush permission for raid by Pervez Musharraf

(Newser) - Pakistan is just furious about the US' unilateral raid that took out Osama bin Laden—even though Pakistan agreed 10 years ago to let the US carry out just such a strike on its territory. As the Guardian reports, Pervez Musharraf and George W. Bush struck the secret deal in...

Pakistani Media Outs 'CIA Chief'; Some Cite 'Retaliation' for Osama Bin Laden Killing
 Pakistani Media Outs CIA Chief 
May 9, 2011 7:37 AM CDT

Pakistani Media Outs CIA Chief

Some cite 'retaliation' for bin Laden killing

(Newser) - Pakistan’s media has unveiled the name of the man who it says is the CIA's Islamabad station chief, and some say the Pakistani government is behind the leak. If that’s the case, it would mark the second outing of a CIA agent in Pakistan in six months...

Files Reveal 'Virginity Tests' on Immigrants in UK in '70s

Procedure checked out wanna-be brides from South Asia

(Newser) - The British government is being called on to apologize to South Asian women who were ordered to undergo "virginity tests" by immigration officials. At least 80 women from India and Pakistan attempting to emigrate to Britain to marry were examined by immigration docs in the late 1970s to “...

Official: Bin Laden Had Help From 'Rogue' ISI Agents

Official admits Pakistani intelligence aided Osama in some fashion

(Newser) - As many have suspected , Osama bin Laden did have some help in Pakistan. “Elements of Pakistan intelligence—probably rogue or retired—were involved in aiding, abetting, and sheltering the leader of al-Qaeda,” a senior official in the country’s civilian government tells ABC News . The government has determined...

Videos Show Osama Watched Himself on TV

Pentagon releases video of al-Qaeda leader in compound

(Newser) - Videos seized by Navy SEALs show Osama bin Laden inside his hideout, watching himself on television and rehearsing for terrorist propaganda videos. The videos were released by the Pentagon as further proof that US forces killed the world's most wanted terrorist this week. One shows bin Laden, his unkempt...

In bin Laden Compound, US Watched 'the Pacer'

Bob Woodward fleshes out details of Osama bin Laden takedown

(Newser) - A mundane phone call led to the downfall of the world's most elusive terrorist: “I’m back with the people I was with before," Osama bin Laden's courier told a friend as US ears perked up. Bob Woodward fleshes out the takedown in today's Washington ...

US Saw Chance at bin Laden in 2007

Osama was expected at Taliban, al-Qaeda rally in Afghanistan

(Newser) - Four years ago, the US believed it had a chance to capture or kill Osama bin Laden: Militants would be gathering in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan for suicide attack training, and there were whispers that bin Laden would attend. A secret raid on the site resulted in the...

Osama &#39;Never Left Two Rooms in Compound&#39;
 Osama 'Never 
 Left Two Rooms 
 in Compound' 
3 widows grilled
May 6, 2011 5:09 AM CDT

Osama 'Never Left Two Rooms in Compound'

Pakistanis interrogating women, children

(Newser) - Three of the four women taken into custody after the US raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout are Mrs. bin Ladens and all three widows are undergoing "firm but nonviolent" questioning, Pakistani intelligence officials tell ABC News . One of the wives, Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, has told interrogators that...

Pakistan Cops to ‘Shortcomings’ in bin Laden Hunt

Even as army orders reduction in US forces, as some question legality of raid

(Newser) - Pakistan's army today admitted to "shortcomings in developing intelligence on the presence" of Osama bin Laden, then promptly ordered a reduction in US military in the country to "minimum essential" levels. The reduction is apparently meant to protest the independent US raid on bin Laden's compound,...

There Was No Firefight
 There Was No Firefight 
May 5, 2011 7:54 AM CDT

There Was No Firefight

Only one person was armed in Osama bin Laden compound

(Newser) - There was fire, but no real firefight. That's the latest revision in the White House's version of events during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. The fire came from some 20 Navy Seals who shot dead bin Laden and three other men and a woman, only...

Osama's Million-Dollar Hideout? More Like $250K

Local real estate experts say it's not as posh as initial accounts suggested

(Newser) - Another aspect of Osama bin Laden's grand finale is getting a dose of reality. US officials initially described his hideout as a mansion valued at $1 million , but two property experts in Abbottabad tell the Guardian it's worth $250,000, max. "This is not a posh area,...

New Brouhaha: Was Killing Osama Legal?

Some call it an unlawful execution

(Newser) - In the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, some are denouncing the US operation as an illegal execution or assassination, but a senior congressional aide says there was only one way the al-Qaeda honcho would have been allowed to surrender: naked. US officials say troops were told to accept...

Leon Panetta: Pakistan Might Have Alerted Osama

And Obama didn't actually watch him being killed

(Newser) - Pakistan was told nothing about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, because the CIA thought “any effort to work with the Pakistanis could jeopardize the mission,” Leon Panetta told Time yesterday. “They might alert the target.” The statement is likely to deepen the speculation swirling...

Cash Sewn Into Clothes, Osama Was Ready to Run

Al-Qaeda leader also had phone numbers sewn into clothes

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden was carrying cash and telephone numbers, indicating that he was prepared to escape his compound at any moment. Top US intelligence officials told Congress yesterday that bin Laden had 500 euros (about $740) as well as two phone numbers sewn into his clothing. Three sources who attended...

Killing Osama Was Wrong

 Killing Osama Was Wrong 
opinion
May 4, 2011 5:00 AM CDT

Killing Osama Was Wrong

Now he's a martyr, writes Geoffrey Robertson

(Newser) - American glee over the death of the "Wicked Witch of the East" is understandable, but unattractive to many in the rest of the world, writes Geoffrey Robertson in the Daily Beast . It would have been so much better to skip the apparent "cold-blooded assassination" of the unarmed terror...

UCLA Students Came Close in 2009 Osama Prediction

Professor, class had the wrong city but the right idea

(Newser) - A UCLA geography professor and his class who tried to predict Osama bin Laden's whereabouts in 2009 don't get an A-plus, but easily a solid B. Professor Thomas Gillespie and crew determined that bin Laden would be within about 180 miles of Tora Bora and living in a...

Remember This Osama Hunter? He Wasn't That Far Off

Gary Faulkner was about 270 miles away on his one-man hunt

(Newser) - Gary Faulkner is happy he won't have to make a return trip to Pakistan to look for Osama bin Laden, the Greeley Tribune of Colorado reports. Faulkner, you'll recall, is the guy who flew to Pakistan on his own last year with the goal of finding and capturing...

Pakistan: We Have Osama’s Wife, Kids in Custody

They were left behind after a helicopter had mechanical issues

(Newser) - One of Osama bin Laden's wives and as many as eight children are in Pakistani custody—including a 12- or 13-year-old daughter who reportedly saw Navy SEALs shoot her father and confirmed it was in fact bin Laden who had been killed. A senior Pakistani intelligence official says the...

Bullet Blew bin Laden’s Skull Apart

Al-Qaeda leader had lived in Abbottabad compound for 5 to 6 years

(Newser) - The scene is shaping up to be a gruesome one: As reported earlier, Osama bin Laden was shot above his left eye, but a US official adds that the bullet blew away part of his skull, and that a second bullet hit him in the chest, reports CBS News . The...

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