Osama Abbottabad

• How Osama papers are helping US target Al Qaeda

  The US is tracking possible new terror targets and stepping up surveillance of operatives previously considered minor Al-Qaeda figures after digging through the mountain of correspondence seized from Osama bin Laden's hideout, officials say. The trove of material is filling in blanks on how Al-Qaeda operatives work, think and fit in the organizatio...

• Another Abbottabad-like action in Pak, if required: Obama

  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...

• Porn stash found at bin Laden compound

  The enormous cache of computer files taken from Osama bin Laden's compound contained a considerable quantity of pornographic videos, American officials said on Friday, adding a discordant note to the public image of the Islamist militant who long denounced the West for its lax sexual mores. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity about cl...

• Neighbours say Osama's death won't spoil wedding

  The US killing of Osama bin Laden a few streets away may have flung Pakistan into crisis, but the Al Qaeda chief's neighbours are determined nothing should spoil their wedding."Osama is not my problem. I don't care if he died here. I can't postpone my wedding because of his death," said Suhail Nasir, 38, dressed up to the nines and getting married ...

• Pakistan says knew of US raid just after it began

  Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik told an Arab satellite TV on Monday he knew of the US raid which killed Osama bin Laden only 15 minutes after its launch but had no idea of the target."I was made aware of the operation 15 minutes after it started," the minister told Al-Arabiya channel in an interview, but he was not aware of the targ...

• 2 blasts heard in town where bin Laden killed

  Witnesses say two loud explosions have rocked the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. raid.The source of the blasts were not immediately clear. An Associated Press team at the compound where bin Laden was living before the April 29 raid saw no signs of unusual activity on Sunday.There had been speculation that authorities migh...

• US says it wants access to bin Laden widows

  The United States wants access to three widows of Osama bin Laden being held by Pakistani authorities, something that could help answer questions about whether any officials knew the Al Qaeda chief was living in the country, a top American official said.Pakistan authorities were not immediately available for comment on Sunday on the demand, which c...

• Candid videos show rare view of unkempt Osama bin Laden

  From a shabby, makeshift office, he ran a global terrorist empire. The world's most wanted man watched newscasts of himself from a tiny television perched atop a rickety old desk cluttered with wires.For years, the world only saw the 54-year-old Osama bin Laden in the rare propaganda videos that trickled out, the ones portraying him as a charismati...

• 'Osama had another house near Abbottabad'

  Pakistani officials say the Obama administration has demanded the identities of some of their top intelligence operatives as the United States tries to determine whether any of them had contact with Osama bin Laden or his agents in the years before the raid that led to his death early Monday morning in Pakistan. The officials provided new details o...

• Osama in Abbottabad for 5 years, says wife: Pak report

  While the US-led forces were hunting for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan's unruly tribal areas for years, the Al Qaeda chief had been living a secluded life in a million-dollar mansion in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad for five years, according to one of his wives.The Yemeni woman said bin Laden had been living in the compound in Abbottabad ...

• Data from raid links bin Laden to newer terror plots

  After reviewing computer files and documents seized at the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, American intelligence analysts have concluded that the chief of Al Qaeda played a direct role for years in plotting terror attacks from his hide-out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, United States officials said Thursday. The C.I.A. had Bin Laden's compound...

• Contractor who built Osama house arrested in Pak

  Pakistani authorities today arrested the contractor who allegedly built the million dollar complex where Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead during a raid by US special forces in Abbottabad.Gul Muhammad, who was also known as Gul Madah or Mithu Khan, was picked up from his residence near Bilal Town neighbourhood, near the garrison city of...