Osama Raid

• Navy SEAL reportedly set to tell all about Osama raid in new book

  The U.S. government was surprised by the news that a Navy SEAL who participated in the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan has written a book about the operation in which the Al Qaeda leader was killed, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

• US should respect decision to imprison doctor who helped CIA find Osama: Pakistan

  The United States should respect a Pakistan court's decision to imprison a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

• Bin Laden planned to evacuate from Waziristan

  The fear of the remote-controlled killing machines kept al-Qaeda militants looking at the sky most of the daylight, the letter said.

• Death threats for the man who demolished Osama's house

  Shakeel Ahmad Yusufzai cuts a defiant figure in the genteel Pakistani town of Abbottabad. He is the man who demolished Osama bin Laden's house and despite Taliban death threats, says that he is proud of what he did.

• Bin Laden raid: Pak doctor provided key information, says US

  US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the US in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden's compound last May.

• Osama raid details leaked to Hollywood?

  Investigators are probing whether the Obama administration divulged too many details of the secret raid on Osama bin Laden to Hollywood filmmakers.

• 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.

• Bin Laden raid has fallout for Pakistani students

  A group of British schools, fearing negative publicity, cut off a partnership with teachers and students in this town where Osama Bin Laden was killed, upsetting Pakistani participants who note that a key purpose of the program was eradicating stereo types.The partnership's demise is an unusual example of a fall-out from the U.S. raid on 2nd May th...

• 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...

• Pakistan arrests CIA informants in Bin Laden raid

  Pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. Pakistan's detention of five CIA informants, including a Pakistani Army major who officials said copie...

• Osama emailed often and with many precautions

  Despite having no Internet access in his hideout, Osama bin Laden was a prolific email writer who built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the US government's best eavesdroppers.His methods, described in new detail to The Associated Press by a counter-terrorism official and a second person briefed on the US investigation, served h...

• PM rules out US-type operation in Pakistan

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has demanded a thorough investigation into the presence of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan for several years, but ruled out a US-type operation by India to eliminate Pakistan-based terrorists wanted by it."One needs to go for a thorough investigation into the presence of Osama bin Laden for such a long time on the soil of ...

• Reports of interest in Osama chopper are absurd, says China

  China today dismissed as "absurd" reports that it had sought access from its all-weather friend Pakistan to the wreckage of the US' secret stealth-modified helicopter, which had crashed during the unilateral American raid that killed Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad hideout.Asked about reports that China had either sought access or already seen th...

• Obama met commando dog used in Osama raid

  Marines were on a foot patrol last fall in the Taliban stronghold of Marja, Afghanistan, when they shot and killed a lethal threat: a local dog that made the mistake of attacking the Marines' Labrador retriever.Captain Manuel Zepeda, the commander of Company F, Second Battalion, Sixth Marines, was unapologetic. If the Lab on the patrol had been hur...

• Osama fallout: US lawmaker introduces legislation to cut off aid to Pakistan

  A key US lawmaker has introduced a legislation in the House of Representatives to stop American aid to Pakistan, saying the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad has made it clear that Islamabad concealed, protected and enabled him for many years."We can no longer afford this foolishness," Congressman Dana Rohrabacher said after i...