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Osama bin Laden compound in Abbottabad demolished
The compound in the garrison town of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces last year was demolished by Pakistani authorities tonight amidst tight security, local residents said.
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Pakistan bans bin Laden home visits ahead of 9/11
Pakistan is preventing foreign journalists and other visitors from getting close to the house of slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden ahead of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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US considered tunneling to Osama bin Laden: Report
US commanders of the raid on Osama bin Laden considered a more down-to-earth way of entering his compound than swooping in by helicopter, a report said today.
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Will next operation be a joint one, US asks Pak
Pakistan will have to decide on the issue of conducting a joint operation with the US against Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders like Mullah Omar and Ayman al-Zawahiri if they are found in the country, American Ambassador Cameron Munter said today. The future of Pakistan-US relations is closely linked to Islamabad's replies to questions that have been ra...
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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 ...
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Probing link to bin Laden, US tells Pakistan to name agents
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 of...
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Osama raid: Why were there mistakes in account?
On Monday, the Obama administration said that Osama bin Laden had been killed after a firefight with Navy Seal commandos, and that he had used his wife as a human shield. On Tuesday, the administration said that bin Laden was not armed at all, and that his wife had not been a shield, but had rushed her husband's assaulter and was shot in the leg.On...
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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...
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The men who went to Osama's bedroom, shot him
There were 79 people on the assault team that killed Osama bin Laden, but in the end, the success of the mission turned on some two dozen men who landed inside the Qaeda leader's compound, made their way to his bedroom and shot him at close range -- all while knowing that the president of the United States was keeping watch from Washington. (Read: ...
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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...
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Pentagon releases satellite images of Osama's compound
Satellite pictures and a sketched diagram of Osama bin Laden's custom-made hideout in Abbottabad, Northern Pakistan, were released by the US Department of Defence on Monday, providing further detail of the compound where the al-Qaida leader had been hiding for years.The elaborately fortified compound was the scene the US Navy Seals' assault on Frid...
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Osama bin Laden compound in Abbottabad demolished
The compound in the garrison town of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces last year was demolished by Pakistani authorities tonight amidst tight security, local residents said.
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Pakistan bans bin Laden home visits ahead of 9/11
Pakistan is preventing foreign journalists and other visitors from getting close to the house of slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden ahead of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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US considered tunneling to Osama bin Laden: Report
US commanders of the raid on Osama bin Laden considered a more down-to-earth way of entering his compound than swooping in by helicopter, a report said today.
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Will next operation be a joint one, US asks Pak
Pakistan will have to decide on the issue of conducting a joint operation with the US against Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders like Mullah Omar and Ayman al-Zawahiri if they are found in the country, American Ambassador Cameron Munter said today. The future of Pakistan-US relations is closely linked to Islamabad's replies to questions that have been ra...
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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 ...
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Probing link to bin Laden, US tells Pakistan to name agents
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 of...
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Osama raid: Why were there mistakes in account?
On Monday, the Obama administration said that Osama bin Laden had been killed after a firefight with Navy Seal commandos, and that he had used his wife as a human shield. On Tuesday, the administration said that bin Laden was not armed at all, and that his wife had not been a shield, but had rushed her husband's assaulter and was shot in the leg.On...
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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...
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The men who went to Osama's bedroom, shot him
There were 79 people on the assault team that killed Osama bin Laden, but in the end, the success of the mission turned on some two dozen men who landed inside the Qaeda leader's compound, made their way to his bedroom and shot him at close range -- all while knowing that the president of the United States was keeping watch from Washington. (Read: ...
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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...
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Pentagon releases satellite images of Osama's compound
Satellite pictures and a sketched diagram of Osama bin Laden's custom-made hideout in Abbottabad, Northern Pakistan, were released by the US Department of Defence on Monday, providing further detail of the compound where the al-Qaida leader had been hiding for years.The elaborately fortified compound was the scene the US Navy Seals' assault on Frid...
