Osama Killing

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  'For Terrorist Like Osama, Sonia Gandhi Would Cry All Night': Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

  A furious Congress has demanded an apology from the ruling BJP after union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said at a public meeting that "Sonia Gandhi would cry all night" for a terrorist like Osama bin Laden.

• US had planned air strike to level Osama's Abbottabad hideout

  The US was initially planning a massive air strike using B-2 Spirit bombers to level the Abbottabad hideout of Osama bin Laden but chose an assault by its elite commandos who killed the world's most wanted terrorist a year ago.

• Obama cancelled 3 kill Laden missions, claims book

  US President Barack Obama put off three times operations to kill world's most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a new book has claimed.

• Hand-written memo saying "go and get Osama" made public

  President Barack Obama's order to "go in and get Bin Laden" was made public on Thursday, as recorded in a memo scribbled by then-CIA chief Leon Panetta shortly after the decision was made.

• Pakistan commission records Mansoor Ijaz testimony from London

  A commission probing the memo scandal here on Wednesday began recording the testimony of Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the key figure in the controversy, through video-conference from London. Commission secretary Raja Jawad Abbas and counsel of Husain Haqqani, former Pakistani envoy to the US, and Mansor Ijaz, among others, attended ...

• Sensex discounts Osama's death, global cues

  The Indian markets continue to be choppy, and unlike global markets have not responded to the killing of Osama bin Laden. At 12.30 pm, the Sensex was trading 98 points lower at 19,037 and the Nifty declined 34 points to 5,714. The Nifty is now trading below its 200 day moving average. Global markets have surged after US President Barack Oba...

• Osama was dead in 90 seconds, says new book

  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.

• The man who hunted Osama bin Laden

  After Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, the White House released a photo of President Barack Obama and his Cabinet inside the Situation Room, watching the daring raid unfold.Hidden from view, standing just outside the frame of that now-famous photograph was a career CIA analyst. In the hunt for the world's most-wanted terrorist, there may have bee...

• Seized phone offers clues to Osama bin Laden's Pakistani links

  The cellphone of Osama bin Laden's trusted courier, which was recovered in the raid that killed both men in Pakistan last month, contained contacts to a militant group that is a longtime asset of Pakistan's intelligence agency, senior American officials who have been briefed on the findings say.The discovery indicates that Bin Laden used the group,...

• US vows to hunt down new Al Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri

  Ayman al-Zawahri, the newly appointed chief of Al Qaeda, lacks the charisma and operational skills of Osama bin Laden as a terror leader, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday.But he said the selection of Al Qaeda's former No. 2 to take bin Laden's place is a reminder that the terror group is still out there and must be pursued."Despit...

• US diver launches underwater search for Osama's body

  Eccentric California salvage diver and entrepreneur Bill Warren, 59, has announced that he wants to find Osama Bin Laden's body as proof the Al Qaeda leader is really dead."I'm doing it because I am a patriotic American who wants to know the truth. I do it for the world," Warren told the New York Post.The nearly decade-long hunt for the elus...

• Ilyas Kashmiri wanted to create 'Laskhar-e-Osama'

  Al Qaeda-linked terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri was in the process of forming a new terror group called the "Laskhar-e-Osama" for carrying out reprisal attacks to avenge the killing of bin Laden.The new group was plotting a wave of suicide bombings across Pakistan and to target embassies and diplomats, the Express Tribune newspaper reported on Monday.Kash...

• No clean chit to Pakistan's ISI, says US

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not given clean chit to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) over Osama bin Laden's presence in the country, State Department spokesperson said today."I don't think she (Clinton) gave them (ISI) a free chit," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters at his daily news conference when aske...

• PM reviews security scenario with military top brass

  Against the backdrop of the killing of Osama bin Laden and the situation in Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today took stock of the country's overall security scenario with the military top brass.The 90-minute security review at the Prime Minister's residence was attended by Defence Minister AK Antony, National Security Adviser (NSA) Shiv S...

• ISI Chief appears before Pak Parliament

  Under intense global scrutiny over his agency's failure to detect Osama bin Laden's presence in Pakistan, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha has "surrendered" himself to Parliament so that he could be held accountable for any lapses related to the unilateral US raid that killed the dreaded terrorist.Pasha's dramatic an...