Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Friday warned France to remove its troops from Muslim lands or else risk the lives of French hostages in Niger. “President Nicolas Sarkozy’s refusal to remove his forces from Afghanistan is nothing but a green light for killing the French hostages,” said the voice, which was attributed to bin Laden, on the new recording aired by television station Al Jazeera.
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Abhishek Sharma’s headache behind ‘Tere Bin Laden’ conception
July 14th, 2010 |
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The director of a comedy flick called ‘Tere Bin Laden’ (Without You Laden), about a lookalike of Osama Bin Laden, has said that the idea struck him when his wife told him that he resembled the Al-Qaeda leader with a scarf and beard. The film that is due to be released this week is about [...]
Bin Laden claims responsibility for Detroit bombing attempt
January 24th, 2010 |
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al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas day airliner bombing attempt in the United States. The al-Jazeera Arab television network has aired what it says is a new audio message bin-Laden.
Spanish politician’s photo used to make bin Laden poster
January 17th, 2010 |
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A Spanish politician is outraged to learn that the FBI has used a photograph of him to create an image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today. The image using Gaspar Llamazares’ photo appeared on a wanted poster updating the US Government’s 1998 photo of the Al-Qaida leader.
Bin Laden death ‘tied to Al Qaeda defeat’
December 9th, 2009 |
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Osama bin Laden is an iconic figure among extremists who must be captured or killed in order to defeat Al Qaeda, the top US commander in Afghanistan said on Tuesday. “I don’t think that we can finally defeat al Qaeda until he’s captured or killed,” General Stanley McChrystal told
Top Military Commander Says Getting Bin Laden is Key to Defeating Al Qaeda. Why Now, When the Government Has Ignored Bin Laden for the Past 8 Years?
December 8th, 2009 |
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The top military commander in Afghanistan – Stanley McChrystal – says that getting Bin Laden is the key to defeating Al Qaeda.Getting Bin Laden sounds fine to me. But apparently the Bush administration couldn’t have cared less about him.The oldest – …
US to launch new bid to hunt down Bin Laden
December 7th, 2009 |
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The United States will launch a new effort to track down Osama bin Laden who is believed to be hiding in the mountains along the Afghan-Pakistan border, a senior US official said on Sunday. Intelligence reports suggest the Al-Qaeda chief “is somewhere inside north Waziristan, sometimes on
No good US intelligence on Bin Laden ‘for years’
December 6th, 2009 |
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The United States does not know where Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is and has lacked reliable information on his whereabouts for years, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates told ABC News on Sunday. Gates made the revelation in an interview with the ABC News “This Week” program. When
Little Known Facts About Afghanistan and Bin Laden
December 5th, 2009 |
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Evidence which has come out over the last couple of years makes it clear that top Bush administration officials knew that Saddam didn’t have weapons of mass destruction and knew that Saddam had no connection with 9/11.It is now reasonably obvious that …
The U.S. Could Have Killed Bin Laden in 2001 AND IN 2007
November 30th, 2009 |
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You’ve heard that – according to the U.S. Senate – Bin Laden was “within the grasp” of the U.S. military in Afghanistan in December 2001, but that then-secretary of defense Rumsfeld refused to provide the soldiers necessary to capture him.This is not n…
Bin Laden was “within grasp” of U.S.
November 29th, 2009 |
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U.S. forces had Osama Bin Laden “within their grasp” in Afghanistan in late 2001, a U.S. Senate report says. It says calls for U.S. reinforcements were rejected, allowing the al-Qaeda leader to “walk unmolested” into Pakistan’s unregulated tribal areas.
Bin Laden videotape not new, monitoring site says
November 7th, 2009 |
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A videotape of Al Qaeda leader Osama B in Laden released on Friday is the Pashto-language version of a tape released several months ago, said IntelCenter, a US-based terrorism monitoring firm. The tape, titled “To Our People in Pakistan,” was broadly released in Arabic and Urdu on
US may be aware about Osama’s whereabouts: Qureshi
October 7th, 2009 |
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Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said the United States may be aware about Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s present location.
Interacting with media persons in Washington, Qureshi said the US troops, engaged in a gruesome battle in Afghanistan, are equipped with sophisticated, state of art technology and weapons hence they may be aware about [...]
Bin Laden tape warns Europe
September 26th, 2009 |
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A new audio tape released Friday, with a voice purported to be Osama bin Laden, warns Europeans to distance themselves from the United States. The message further mentions that Americans are losing the war in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden warns U.S. on Israel ties: website
September 14th, 2009 |
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Osama bin Laden warned the American people over their govt.’s close ties with Israel in an apparently new audio tape posted on an Islamist website on Monday. “The time has come for you to liberate yourselves from fear and the ideological terrorism of neo-conservatives and the Israeli lobby,” Bin Laden’s latest tape said.
Osama bin Laden warns Americans in tape
September 14th, 2009 |
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Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden issued an apparently new audio tape on an Islamist website on Monday, warning the American people over their government’s close ties to Israel. The message, entitled “A statement to the American people”, was approximately 10 minutes long and appeared on a