Osama Dead

Al-Qaida Tries Comeback With Bin Laden Son As Mouthpiece

World News | Joby Warrick, Souad Mekhennet, The Washington Post | Sunday May 28, 2017

The voice is that of a soft-spoken 28-year-old, but the message is vintage Osama bin Laden, giving orders to kill. When the audio recording began turning up on jihadist websites two weeks ago, it was as if the dead terrorist was channeling himself through his favorite son.

Man Tries To Get Aadhaar Card For Osama Bin Laden

Jaipur News | Press Trust of India | Monday May 15, 2017

Osama bin Laden is dead and gone but a Saddam Hussain operating an E-Mitra kiosk centre in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district tried to make an Aadhaar card for the killed Al Qaeda terrorist.

On 9/11, 102 Minutes That Changed America

World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday September 11, 2016

Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States that left nearly 3,000 people dead.

Graveyard Or Playground? Pakistan Row Over Osama Bin Laden Compound

World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday July 24, 2016

A dispute has broken out over the future of the site where Osama Bin Laden was shot dead in 2011, with authorities pushing rival plans for a graveyard or playground.

5 Years After Bin Laden, Al Qaeda Down But Far From Out

World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday May 1, 2016

Five years after the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, the network he founded is far from dead even if it has suffered a series of setbacks.

The Trailer of Tere Bin Laden - Dead or Alive Will Definitely Crack You Up

Tuesday January 19, 2016

The two-and-half minute long video tracks the journey of allegedly dead terrorist Osama Bin Laden's lookalike, played by Pradhuman Singh aka Paddi Singh. The trailer goes on to show the turmoil and adventures Laden's doppelganger experiences as he is wanted - dead or alive - by two different groups of people

Taliban Leader, Who Afghanistan Says is Dead, a Pious Enigma

World News | Reuters | Thursday July 30, 2015

One of the most wanted men in the world for over a decade, Mullah Omar was also one of the most elusive.

Al-Qaeda Confirms Top Commander Killed in US Strike

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday June 16, 2015

Al-Qaeda has confirmed that its second-in-command, the chief of its powerful Yemeni branch, was killed in a US drone strike, in the heaviest blow to the Jihadist network since the death of Osama bin Laden.

Lawyer for Pakistan Doctor Who Helped CIA Find Osama Bin Laden Shot Dead

World News | Reuters | Tuesday March 17, 2015

A Pakistani lawyer under death threats for defending a doctor who helped CIA agents hunt al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead on Tuesday, police said, and a Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility.

Osama's dead body was identified by young girl: Book

World News | Press Trust of India | Friday August 31, 2012

The dead body of Osama bin Laden was identified by a young girl who was in the room where he was killed after his wives refused to name the elusive Al Qaeda chief, a new book by an ex-US Navy Seal has claimed.

Taliban attack Pakistan air base, 10 dead: Officials

World News | Agence France-Presse | Thursday August 16, 2012

Heavily armed militants stormed a Pakistani air force base on Thursday, sparking clashes that left 10 people dead and raised concerns about the safety of the country's nuclear arsenal.

Facebook page on Osama Death has 300,000 likes

NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday June 5, 2012

A page on Facebook titled "Osama Bin Laden is DEAD" has gathered more than 300,000 likes within hours of his death.

Osama: Dead, but most wanted online

Sameer Mitha | Tuesday June 5, 2012

Osama bin Laden is a bigger presence in cyberspace dead than he ever was alive.

No need to release Osama pictures: US

World News | Press Trust of India | Monday April 30, 2012

The US does not plan to release images related to the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan fearing that this might incite emotions, a top counter terrorism official has said ahead of the first death anniversary of the al-Qaeda chief. "There's no need to release the photos and video because there's no doubt whatsoever that Bin Laden i...

Rockets hit Pakistan's top military academy near bin Laden home

World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday January 27, 2012

Assailants fired nine rockets at Pakistan's top military academy on Friday, damaging its outer wall near the compound where Osama bin Laden was shot dead, officials said. No one was hurt in the pre-dawn attack but three rockets damaged the outer wall of the Pakistan academy, some 500 metres (yards) from where US Navy SEALs killed the Al-Qaeda lead...

Global markets surge after Osama pronounced dead

NDTV Correspondent | Saturday November 26, 2011

Major world stock markets rose, the dollar strengthened and oil prices were lower after news that U.S. forces killed terror mastermind Osama bin Laden following a near-decade-long manhunt. President Barack Obama announced during holiday-thinned Asian trading hours that the man who inspired the deadly Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the Un...

Osama was dead in 90 seconds, says new book

World News | Press Trust of India | Friday November 4, 2011

Six months after his death, a new book has claimed that Osama bin Laden was shot dead within 90 seconds of the beginning of a raid on his Pakistani hideout by US commandos, and not killed after a 45-minute firefight.

Pakistan college contest: Praise for Osama bin Laden

World News | Associated Press | Saturday July 2, 2011

Two months after the covert U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, posters emblazoned with images of the burning World Trade Center towers appeared at the country's largest university advertising a literary contest to glorify the former Al Qaeda chief.The poem and essay competition at the prestigious Punjab University shows the footholds of hard-li...

How Osama papers are helping US target Al Qaeda

World News | Associated Press | Thursday June 9, 2011

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...

Obama thanks CIA for tracking Osama

World News | Associated Press | Saturday May 21, 2011

US President Barack Obama went to CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on Friday to thank the agency's intelligence workers for the years of effort that led to the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.The President recalled that he had been to the CIA headquarters a year ago to honour seven fallen agents who di...

Saudi diplomat shot dead in Pak

World News | Press Trust of India | Monday May 16, 2011

A Saudi Arabian diplomat was shot and killed by unidentified attackers in Karachi today, just five days after explosives devices were lobbed at the Saudi consulate in the southern Pakistani port city.The Saudi diplomat, identified in media reports as Hasan M M Al-Kahtani, was attacked by four gunmen riding two motorcycles while he was driving to wo...

Bin Laden death photos gruesome, says Congressman

World News | Press Trust of India | Thursday May 12, 2011

A US lawmaker, who was given the rare opportunity by the CIA to view the death photos of Osama bin Laden, has said the pictures were "pretty gruesome" and there was no doubt that the al-Qaeda chief was dead.Senator James Inhoffe, a Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was shown 15 photographs taken of bin Laden after the al-Qa...

US lawmakers to see picture of bin Laden's corpse

World News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday May 11, 2011

Some US lawmakers would be shown the picture of the corpse of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who was shot dead last week by US Special Forces in Abbottabad in Pakistan, a media report said on Tuesday.The select group of lawmakers, mainly from the intelligence and armed services committees of the both chambers of the Congress - would be shown these...

Coming soon, Osama's last audio message: Al Qaeda

World News | Press Trust of India | Saturday May 7, 2011

Al Qaeda has promised to "soon" release its slain chief Osama bin Laden's final audio message, which was recorded a week before his killing by the US special forces in Pakistan's garrison city of Abbottabad.In a four-page statement, the terror group said bin Laden recorded the audio message a week before his death which will be released "soon", acc...

Osama raid: US used stealth chopper that had been a secret

World News | Christopher Drew, The New York Times | Friday May 6, 2011

The assault team that killed Osama bin Laden sneaked up on his compound in radar-evading helicopters that had never been discussed publicly by the United States government, aviation analysts said Thursday. The commandos blew up one of the helicopters after it was damaged in a hard landing, but news photographs of the surviving tail section reveal m...

Osama death 'a curse for US', warns Al Qaeda

World News | Elizabeth A Harris, The New York Times | Friday May 6, 2011

Al Qaeda released a statement on militant Web sites on Friday confirming the death of Osama bin Laden, news agencies reported.The statement, dated May 3, was signed by "the general leadership" of the group, the Associated Press said."We stress that the blood of the holy warrior sheik, Osama bin Laden, God bless him, is precious to us and to all Mus...

Kasab asks jail guards about Osama's death

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday May 6, 2011

Ajmal Kasab, who has been sentenced to death for the 26/11 attacks, has asked for details of how Osama bin Laden was killed.PTI reports that Kasab, who is at Mumbai's Arthur Road jail, heard security guards discussing Osama's death. After asking them questions, he reportedly said, "Jihad me uski jaan gayi" (Osama died during jihad).A guard told PTI...

Data from raid links bin Laden to newer terror plots

World News | Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, The New York Times | Friday May 6, 2011

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...

Osama's family told Pak security personnel about his death: Bashir

World News | Press Trust of India | Thursday May 5, 2011

The family of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had told Pakistani security personnel that he had been killed in the "covert" operation conducted by the US Navy SEALs, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said today.Giving an overview of exactly how Pakistan's forces reacted after getting information about the American raid, Bashir said on enterin...

Statement of Pakistan Army over US troop reduction

World News | NDTV Correspondent | Thursday May 5, 2011

Facing worldwide flak over the presence of Osama bin Laden in the country and embarrassed over US' covert operation to kill him, Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani chaired a meeting of the Corps Commanders today.The Army ordered a reduction in US military personnel operating inside Pakistan in an apparent protest at a unilateral A...