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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 
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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...

Raid Also Killed Osama Son, Heir Apparent

'Future al-Qaeda leader' Hamza bin Laden killed

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden's youngest son and presumed heir won't be going into the family business. US officials say Hamza bin Laden was killed along with his father in the raid on the Abbotabad compound, reports the Telegraph . Hamza, believed to have been around 20 years old, was the...

Zardari: Pakistan ‘Did Its Part’ in bin Laden Sting

Hit was result of a decade of cooperation, he writes in op-ed

(Newser) - As suspicions mount against Pakistan in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, President Asif Ali Zardari insists his country did its part. "The events of Sunday were not a joint operation," he acknowledges in a Washington Post op-ed, but "a decade of cooperation and partnership...

Sen. Levin: Pakistan Has Tough Questions to Answer

Senators wonder how much nation's intelligence services knew

(Newser) - Pakistan is going to have to answer some tough questions about whether members of its military and intelligence services knew where Osama bin Laden was, warns Sen. Carl Levin. The Democrat, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, suggested that the security arms of the Pakistani government may have known...

Who’s Not Happy That bin Laden’s Dead?

Hamas blasts 'killing of an Arab holy warrior'

(Newser) - Reaction to Osama bin Laden's death is pouring in from around the world—and not everybody's cheering, Reuters reports:
  • Hamas: “We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior,” said Ismail Haniyeh, the group’s leader in the Gaza Strip. “We regard
...

Bin Laden Used Wife as Human Shield

Counterterror chief says al-Qaeda ringleader died behind only female casualty in raid

(Newser) - Staring down the near-certainty of his imminent death yesterday, Osama bin Laden did not fight valiantly to the end nor peacefully step toward martyrdom: he died behind a woman—likely his own wife—as he used her as a human shield. "Here is Osama, living in a million-dollar compound,...

Bin Laden's Death Heaps Suspicion on Pakistan

Pakistan has long insisted Bin Laden was not in the country

(Newser) - When American forces finally tracked down Osama bin Laden, they found him right under the noses of Pakistan’s military, and that’s likely to ratchet tensions between the US and Pakistan even higher, both the New York Times and the LA Times speculate. Bin Laden was not found in...

US Official: bin Laden Buried at Sea

Easiest way to dispose of remains, source tells AP

(Newser) - Looks like Osama bin Laden's body won't be coming to the US. The terror mastermind was "buried at sea" following a raid by US forces on his Pakistan hideout, an American official has told AP . Authorities decided to handle his body according to Islamic traditions, which call...

Pakistan to Afghanistan: Dump US

Pakistan would be a better long-term ally, Prime Minister Gilani argues

(Newser) - As the US prepares to withdraw most of its troops from Afghanistan by 2014, Afghanistan's neighbors are jockeying for increased influence—most notably Pakistan, which is blatantly lobbying Hamid Karzai to ditch the US. Rather than allow a long-term American military presence in Afghanistan, Pakistani PM Yousuf Raza Gilani...

US Considers ISI, Pakistan's Spy Agency, an al-Qaeda Supporter
US: Pakistan's Spy Agency
Is al-Qaeda Supporter
WikiLeaks Reveal
Apr 25, 2011 11:13 AM CDT

US: Pakistan's Spy Agency Is al-Qaeda Supporter

ISI's association with terror group used as an excuse to detain people

(Newser) - The US military has considered Pakistan’s spy agency an al-Qaeda support group since 2007—and has used association with it to justify imprisoning people in Guantanamo Bay, the latest crop of WikiLeaks documents reveals. The ISI is listed alongside the likes of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranian intelligence, and dozens...

Deadly US Drone Attack Worsens Pakistan Tension

American strike kills at least 20 in North Waziristan

(Newser) - Pakistan has been pressing the US to ease off on its drone attacks, and the Pentagon made clear today it has no intention of doing so. A strike on an al-Qaeda haven in North Waziristan killed about two dozen people, reports the BBC , including at least five women and four...

Pakistan Frees Accused Gang Rapists

Mukhtar Mai's alleged assailants go free

(Newser) - Pakistan’s supreme court has freed 13 of the 14 people accused of raping Mukhtar Mai, the activist who earned global acclaim for speaking out about her assault, a rare act in Pakistan’s sexist society. Human rights groups are outraged, and Mai says she’s terrified. “I am...

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