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NEWS ABOUT: Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden stories: 119 news summaries

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Book Excerpt

 Omar bin Laden: Dad Beat Me 

Terrorist's fourth son describes his childhood in Growing Up bin Laden

Oct 28, 09 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Omar bin Laden was about to be born, his father got so excited that he lost his keys. When he finally found them after a frantic search, he tore to the hospital at reckless speed in his brand new golden Mercedes. It’s hard for Omar to imagine the... More »

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Wife: Bin Laden Loves Gardening, Cars, Jihad

New memoir describes family life in the bin Laden household

Oct 17, 09 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden was a tough dad who liked growing corn and sunflowers when he wasn't busy preparing for jihad, his first wife and his fourth son reveal in a memoir to be published this month. Bin Laden loves fast cars and owned a gold Mercedes and a speed boat,... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Osama bin Laden • memoir • al-Qaeda

(Newser) - The US and Pakistan were this close to catching Osama bin Laden about 5 years ago, says former President Pervez Musharraf. "Then, suddenly, we lost track." In a question-and-answer forum following a speech in South Dakota, Musharraf said intelligence closed in on the al-Qaeda leader in a "... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • hunt

OPINION

 How We Get 
 bin Laden: 
 KFC's New 
 Double Down 

It's a bacon and cheese sandwich, except with fried chicken instead of bread!

Sep 27, 09 5:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fed up with all haute cuisine? Foodie babble? An organic garden at the White House? KFC looks to have just what you need in the Double Down, a bacon and cheese sandwich in which the bread is replaced by fried chicken fillets! “Forget food porn,” Scott Gold writes... More »

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obesity • entertainment • Canada • socialism • cheese • Osama bin Laden • KFC • bacon • Kentucky Fried Chicken • tofu • salad

Osama Warns Europe to Leave Afghanistan

Al-Qaeda mastermind says Obama 'has no regard for human life'

Sep 25, 09 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden wants Europe to pull its troops out Afghanistan and sever ties with the US. In a new audio message, the al-Qaeda chief admonishes European nations for putting in with a United States whose “supreme commander has no regard for human life and intentionally bombs villagers from... More »

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Madrid bombings • Germany • Europe • Osama bin Laden • London bombings • al-Qaeda • Afghanistan war • elections

 Obama 'Weakened' by 
 Neocons: bin Laden 

New tape says 'war of attrition' will continue so long as US backs Israel

Sep 14, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is “a weakened man,” says Osama bin Laden in a new audiotape titled “A statement to the American people," citing his retention of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other Bush officials. "The bitter truth is that the neoconservatives continue to cast their heavy... More »

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Barack Obama • Israel • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • Israeli lobby • neoconservatives

OPINION

 Bin Laden's a Loser, 9/11 Failed 


Sep 11, 09 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden may still be alive out there, but history long ago closed the book on him: He’s a failure, writes Tony Karon in Time. The 9/11 attacks were a tactical victory for al-Qaeda, striking fear into Western hearts. But the strategy behind them “has proven... More »

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Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • 9/11 attacks

(AP) - In late 2007, a year after the Bush administration abandoned its harshest interrogation methods, CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation tactics against a terror detainee twice, keeping him awake for 5 and then 6 straight days, with permission from government lawyers to go over the 4-day limit. Interrogators kept the... More »

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CIA • torture • Osama bin Laden • sleep deprivation • harsh interrogation • terror suspects • detainees • enhanced interrogation techniques • Mohammed Rahim al-Afghani • Central Intelligence Agency

US Missile
Kills Son of
Bin Laden

Officials think drone strike hit him
in Pakistan

Jul 22, 09 6:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US is pretty sure that an American missile killed Osama bin Laden's son in Pakistan, reports NPR. Spy agencies are "80 to 85%" certain that a missile from a US drone killed Saad bin Laden, thought to be in his late 20s, sometime in the last year. Saad... More »

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Pakistan • missile • Osama bin Laden • drones • al-Qaeda • Saad bin Laden

(Newser) - Al Qaeda is weak militarily and “has been rejected by a great majority of Muslims,” Steve Coll writes in the New Yorker, but the terrorist organization and its affiliates can still create a “shock” like today's bombings in Jakarta. Despite the group's apparent inability to pull off... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • terrorism • US foreign policy • bombing • Osama bin Laden • Jakarta • al-Qaeda • terrorist attack • Obama administration • patience

Bin Laden Rips Pakistani Leaders as 'Satan's Allies'

He blames Obama
for fighting

Jul 12, 09 5:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden's most recent rant slams Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistani soldiers as "allies of Satan," and he calls on Paiistanis to join the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces fighting in the Swat Valley, reports the NY Daily News. Bid Laden blamed Barak Obama for... More »

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Pakistan • Osama bin Laden • Pakistan army

 Beck Guest: 
 US Needs 
 Attack by 
 bin Laden 

Glenn himself seems to agree

Jul 1, 09 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck and his guest last night, ex-CIA employee Michael Scheuer, kicked off the 4th of July festivities early when Scheuer declared that America’s only hope “is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.” Gawker blogger the Cajun Boy... More »

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CIA • Fox News • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • Glenn Beck • terrorist attack • Michael Scheuer

Saddam Feared Iran, Would
Have Asked Bush for Help

Also said he never met 'zealot' bin Laden

Jun 24, 09 7:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Saddam Hussein feared Iran more than the US and once considered cutting a deal with George W. Bush, the Daily News reports. In newly declassified interrogations from 2004, Saddam said that if Iran threatened to attack, he "would have sought a security agreement with the US," says the... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Saddam Hussein • FBI • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda

 Bin Laden in Pakistan: CIA Head 

Finding leader remains 'major priority,' he says

Jun 11, 09 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden is still in Pakistan and his arrest remains a top priority for the US, CIA Director Leon Panetta said today, adding that joint operations with Pakistani forces could finally net al-Qaeda’s top leader. The CIA has Pakistani informants that keep it abreast of terrorist targets there,... More »

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Somalia • Pakistan • Yemen • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • Pakistan military • Leon Panetta • CIA director

 Bin Laden Short on 
 Hiding Spots: Officials 

Pakistan offensive, troops in Afghanistan, drone attacks cut space

Jun 5, 09 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden has fewer and fewer places to hide these days, officials tell NPR. And “the administration smells blood,” says a former counterterror official who cites three reasons for the shrinking space: Pakistan’s Swat Valley offensive against the Taliban, "along with US activities from the... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • US military • counterterrorism • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • Pakistan military • Obama administration

 New Osama Tape Blasts Obama 


Jun 3, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new tape believed to be a recording of Osama bin Laden attacking President Obama for his actions in Pakistan surfaced today, CBS reports. In the audio message, which aired on al-Jazeera, bin Laden says that by encouraging Pakistan’s raids in the Swat valley, Obama has forced a million... More »

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Barack Obama • terrorism • Pakistan • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • Obama administration • President Obama

Al-Qaeda Denounces Obama

Deputy warns Muslims of 'polished words' before Cairo speech

Jun 2, 09 7:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Al-Qaeda isn't waiting for President Obama to address the Muslim world to criticize him. In a new video, the group's No. 2 leader called Obama a "criminal" on the eve of his visit to the Mideast and said his "bloody images" cannot be concealed by "theatrical visits... More »

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Egypt • Muslim • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • Ayman al-Zawahiri • President Obama

 Cheney Backs 
 Gay Marriage

Ex-VP switches Obama's name for Osama's

Jun 2, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney appeared to break rank with many in his party when he suggested he didn’t oppose gay marriage, the New York Post reports. “I think freedom means freedom for everyone,” he said at the National Press Club yesterday. “People ought to be free to enter... More »

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Dick Cheney • gay marriage • Osama bin Laden • President Obama

New Reactors Could Boost Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal

US hasn't fought massive project amid national turmoil

May 12, 09 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan is building two of the largest plutonium-producing reactors in the developing world—facilities that experts say could bolster the nuclear arsenal of a country fraught with turmoil. The US hasn’t publicly condemned the project, MSNBC reports, even though it makes Pakistan “the only country rapidly building up... More »

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Pakistan • nuclear weapons • aid • Osama bin Laden • nuclear facilities • plutonium • nuclear arsenal

(Newser) - Pakistan’s president suggested today that Osama bin Laden could be dead, an assertion the US strenuously objects to, the New York Daily News reports. “He may be dead. But that’s been said before,” Asif Ali Zardari said. “It’s still between fiction and fact.”... More »

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War on Terror • terrorism • Pakistan • United States • Osama bin Laden • Asif Ali Zardari • al-Qaeda

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