Abbottabad Operation

Sohaib Athar, an IT consultant, became an overnight sensation and was the subject of news stories after he inadvertently live-blogged one the biggest events in history: the US military operation that killed notorious terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

President Donald Trump derided retired Adm. William H. McRaven as a "Hillary Clinton fan" and an "Obama backer" and suggested that the former head of U.S. Special Operations Command should have apprehended Osama bin Laden faster.

Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan's detention for years and was killed after the country struck a deal with the US, a top American journalist has claimed citing new evidence and disputed Islamabad's assertion that it was not aware of the raid that killed the al Qaeda terrorist.

For years after the 9/11 terror attacks, top US officials claimed that Osama bin Laden was a man on the run and incapable of overseeing Al-Qaeda but newly declassified files seized from his hideout in Pakistan show he was operating more like a Fortune 500 CEO until he was killed in 2011.

A document recovered from Osama Bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan's Abbottabad -- where he was killed by the US Forces in 2011 -- proves he was aware, even proud, of the terror operations in India.

"Please enter the required information accurately and truthfully. Write clearly and legibly. Name, age, marital status. Do you wish to execute a suicide operation?"

The US special operation in Pakistan's Abbottabad town in May last year that killed Osama bin Laden in his hideout appears to have been "unlawful" in the absence of clarification from the US, human rights group Amnesty International has said.

US President Barack Obama today said that he would approve an Abbottabad-like operation which killed Osama bin Laden if another militant leader was found in Pakistan.Speaking to the BBC on the eve of his visit to Britain, Obama said that he was mindful of Pakistani sovereignty but said the US could not allow "active plans to come to fruition withou...

American intelligence agencies have launched a massive global manhunt for individuals mentioned in the "treasure trove" of terrorist materials obtained from the Abbottabad hideout of Osama bin Laden, a media report said.The entire US intelligence community is busy pursuing leads from files recovered from Laden's house in Abbottabad, to determine wh...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said  that "somebody" in Pakistan knew about slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's hideout in that country but there is no "evidence" that the top leadership was aware of it.Gates would not say who knew about the presence of bin Laden in Abbottabad deep inside Pakistan but suggested it could have been re...

With a "support network" in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden had become "complacent" and kept staying at one location for the past several years without any ready escape plan, a media report said today.Nearly two weeks after the world's most wanted terrorist was killed in Abbottabad, US officials say that several key indicators bolster their initial impre...

Using intermediaries and inexpensive computer disks, Osama bin Laden managed to send emails while in hiding, without leaving a digital fingerprint for U.S. eavesdroppers to find.His system was painstaking and slow, but it worked, and it allowed him to become a prolific email writer despite not having Internet or phone lines running to his compound....

Faced with mounting criticism from the public and media for his government's response to the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will brief Parliament on Monday to "take the nation into confidence" on the issue.Here's the statement issued by Pakistan Prime Minister's Office:  Prime Minister Syed Yusu...

Pakistan's former president called the failure by his country's intelligence agencies to uncover Osama bin Laden a "big slip up," but urged Pakistan and America to rebuild trust as the only way to maintain the battle against Al Qaeda. Speaking from Dubai, Pervez Musharraf, who was president at the time bin Laden is said to have first occupied ...

America's CIA maintained a safe house near Abbottabad town for a small team of spies who conducted extensive surveillance on Osama bin Laden's compound for months before President Barack Obama signed an order to kill the most wanted terrorist on April 29."The CIA maintained a safe house in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad for a small team of spies ...

Sohaib Athar, an IT consultant, became an overnight sensation and was the subject of news stories after he inadvertently live-blogged one the biggest events in history: the US military operation that killed notorious terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

President Donald Trump derided retired Adm. William H. McRaven as a "Hillary Clinton fan" and an "Obama backer" and suggested that the former head of U.S. Special Operations Command should have apprehended Osama bin Laden faster.

Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan's detention for years and was killed after the country struck a deal with the US, a top American journalist has claimed citing new evidence and disputed Islamabad's assertion that it was not aware of the raid that killed the al Qaeda terrorist.

For years after the 9/11 terror attacks, top US officials claimed that Osama bin Laden was a man on the run and incapable of overseeing Al-Qaeda but newly declassified files seized from his hideout in Pakistan show he was operating more like a Fortune 500 CEO until he was killed in 2011.

A document recovered from Osama Bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan's Abbottabad -- where he was killed by the US Forces in 2011 -- proves he was aware, even proud, of the terror operations in India.

"Please enter the required information accurately and truthfully. Write clearly and legibly. Name, age, marital status. Do you wish to execute a suicide operation?"

The US special operation in Pakistan's Abbottabad town in May last year that killed Osama bin Laden in his hideout appears to have been "unlawful" in the absence of clarification from the US, human rights group Amnesty International has said.

US President Barack Obama today said that he would approve an Abbottabad-like operation which killed Osama bin Laden if another militant leader was found in Pakistan.Speaking to the BBC on the eve of his visit to Britain, Obama said that he was mindful of Pakistani sovereignty but said the US could not allow "active plans to come to fruition withou...

American intelligence agencies have launched a massive global manhunt for individuals mentioned in the "treasure trove" of terrorist materials obtained from the Abbottabad hideout of Osama bin Laden, a media report said.The entire US intelligence community is busy pursuing leads from files recovered from Laden's house in Abbottabad, to determine wh...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said  that "somebody" in Pakistan knew about slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's hideout in that country but there is no "evidence" that the top leadership was aware of it.Gates would not say who knew about the presence of bin Laden in Abbottabad deep inside Pakistan but suggested it could have been re...

With a "support network" in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden had become "complacent" and kept staying at one location for the past several years without any ready escape plan, a media report said today.Nearly two weeks after the world's most wanted terrorist was killed in Abbottabad, US officials say that several key indicators bolster their initial impre...

Using intermediaries and inexpensive computer disks, Osama bin Laden managed to send emails while in hiding, without leaving a digital fingerprint for U.S. eavesdroppers to find.His system was painstaking and slow, but it worked, and it allowed him to become a prolific email writer despite not having Internet or phone lines running to his compound....

Faced with mounting criticism from the public and media for his government's response to the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will brief Parliament on Monday to "take the nation into confidence" on the issue.Here's the statement issued by Pakistan Prime Minister's Office:  Prime Minister Syed Yusu...

Pakistan's former president called the failure by his country's intelligence agencies to uncover Osama bin Laden a "big slip up," but urged Pakistan and America to rebuild trust as the only way to maintain the battle against Al Qaeda. Speaking from Dubai, Pervez Musharraf, who was president at the time bin Laden is said to have first occupied ...

America's CIA maintained a safe house near Abbottabad town for a small team of spies who conducted extensive surveillance on Osama bin Laden's compound for months before President Barack Obama signed an order to kill the most wanted terrorist on April 29."The CIA maintained a safe house in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad for a small team of spies ...