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NEWS ABOUT: Osama bin Laden

Clinton Visits Pakistan—and It Doesn't Go Very Well

NYT describes Clinton as awkward, unsmiling

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton met with senior leaders in Pakistan today, including President Asif Ali Zardari and the chief of the army, to discuss the country’s future in the fight against terror. The New York Times puts it succinctly: The visit “did not appear to go well.” In place... More »

Pakistan Lets CIA Scour bin Laden House

Team will get its first up-close look at the place

(Newser) - Pakistan has given the CIA its blessing to search Osama bin Laden’s compound for anything American forces may have missed during their clandestine night raid. An agency forensics team is expected to land in Abbottabad in a matter of days, armed with high-tech equipment designed to sniff out anything... More »

Obama: US 'Would Repeat bin Laden Raid'

President calls for better US-Pakistan ties

(Newser) - The killing of Osama bin Laden by US special forces has strained US-Pakistan relations, but President Obama says he would do it again if another militant leader was discovered there. "Our job is to secure the United States," Obama said in an interview with the BBC . "We... More »

Rumsfeld: We Woulda Hit bin Laden Same Way

Praises intel, SEALs, says hit was years in the making

(Newser) - Add Donald Rumsfeld to the list of Republicans heaping praise for Osama bin Laden's killing on anyone but the Obama administration: "The capabilities to do it were developed over time by previous administrations, and they benefit the country, and the intelligence had been gathered over a long period... More »

Bin Laden Wanted to Hit Oil Tankers

Abbottabad documents show he wanted to spike oil prices

(Newser) - When Osama bin Laden wasn't maybe watching porn, he was apparently plotting his next devastating attack. Documents pulled from bin Laden's Abbottabad compound indicate that the terror leader next was planning to hijack oil tankers and blow them up at sea, reports the AP —an attempt he... More »

Feds Won't Pay bin Laden Bounty

Nobody to receive $25M reward

(Newser) - Nobody is going to receive the $25 million bounty attached to Osama bin Laden, government officials say. The raid that killed bin Laden was the result of electronic intelligence, not information provided by human informants, so the money offered under the Rewards for Justice program will go unclaimed, officials tell... More »

CIA Osama Hunter Helped Bilk Pentagon of $200M

Marty Martin linked to oil company's big government payday

(Newser) - A CIA operative in charge of hunting down Osama bin Laden is a war profiteer who helped bilk the Pentagon out of some $200 million , reports Gawker . Marty Martin was put in charge of tracking down the terror mastermind from 2002-2004, and boasted to the AP that those early efforts... More »

Osama Praises Arab Spring in Newly Released Message

Al-Qaeda releases recording made weeks before death

(Newser) - Dead terror kingpin Osama bin Laden is full of praise for the revolutions sweeping the Arab world in a recording released posthumously by al-Qaeda. In the 12-minute message, bin Laden hails the people of Egypt and Tunisia for ridding themselves of tyrants and predicts that " the winds of change... More »

Church to Honor Prayer Request for Osama

'He needs forgiveness,' says Catholic parishioner in Florida

(Newser) - A Catholic man in Florida is testing his fellow parishioners capacity for forgiveness this weekend: Henry Borga paid $10 to have the name Osama bin Laden entered in the church bulletin for Sunday prayers at the Holy Name of Jesus church, reports WPTV in West Palm Beach. "He needs... More »

Rick Santorum: McCain Doesn't 'Get' Torture

Former POW's spokesman gets snarky in response

(Newser) - Rick Santorum raised more than a few eyebrows yesterday when he said that John McCain “doesn’t understand how enhanced interrogation works.” Santorum was taking issue with McCain’s assertion , backed by a letter from Leon Panetta, that information gained under torture did not lead to Osama bin... More »

New Drones Stalked bin Laden for Months

Flying at a high altitude, they were able to evade radar

(Newser) - For months prior to the May 2 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the CIA was flying dozens of secret missions in Pakistani airspace using a new stealth drone to monitor his compound. The sophisticated aircraft, designed to fly at high altitudes, evaded radar detection and went beyond the bounds... More »

Al-Qaeda Picks Egyptian as Interim Leader

Saif al-Adel may be placeholder for Zawahri

(Newser) - Al-Qaeda has yet to name a successor to Osama bin Laden, but CNN reports that a "caretaker" leader is in place. He is identified as Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian who has been in the group's upper echelon for years. Even al-Qaeda has to worry about politics, apparently: Adel... More »

How the bin Laden Raid Almost Went Horribly Wrong

Officials give AP a detailed recounting of what really happened

(Newser) - SEAL Team 6 had an elaborate plan for the Osama bin Laden raid—and it evaporated pretty much immediately. The plan had called for a pincher attack, with one team of SEALs entering the house from the roof, and another from the courtyard, sources tell the AP in an exclusive... More »

US, Pakistan: We'll Work Together to Uproot Terrorists

John Kerry's visit leads to joint pledge

(Newser) - The US and Pakistan have agreed to work together in the future against "high value targets" in Pakistan, the countries announced in a joint statement today. The news comes after Sen. John Kerry arrived in Pakistan last night, intending to send a strong message following the death of Osama... More »

59% Will at Least 'Consider' Reelecting Obama

...even though 57% of voters disapprove of his handling of the economy

(Newser) - More than half of voters approve of President Obama’s job performance and would at least consider reelecting him—even though 57% of them disapprove of they way he is handling the economy, a Politico-George Washington University poll finds. Some 52% approve of the president’s work so far, and... More »

Pakistan Parliament Condemns bin Laden Raid

Intelligence chief denounces US, says he is ready to resign

(Newser) - Pakistan's parliament has condemned the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and passed a resolution stating that Pakistan will revisit its ties with the US. Supply lines to US troops in Afghanistan could be cut if there are any more such attacks, parliament warned. The announcement came at... More »

Porn Found in Osama's Compound

Reuters calls the stash of pornographic videos 'extensive'

(Newser) - It looks like the Navy SEALs checked under the mattress: A cache of pornographic videos was found at Osama bin Laden's compound, officials tell Reuters , which calls the collection "fairly extensive." It's not clear whether bin Laden was the one who acquired or watched the videos,... More »

Bin Laden's Fatal Mistake: He Didn't Read WikiLeaks

Leaked documents mentioned Abbottabad: Donald Rumsfeld

(Newser) - Maybe Osama bin Laden should have had his hideaway hooked up with Internet access: He might have saved his own neck by reading WikiLeaks files. The unusual assertion comes from none other than Donald Rumsfeld, who notes in a Washington Post op-ed that leaked classified files from Gitmo "contain... More »

SEALs' Helmet Cameras Captured Osama Mission

Military officials reviewing footage of 40-minute operation

(Newser) - This should eventually clear up the conflicting stories of exactly what happened during the Osama bin Laden raid: CBS News and CNN report that the entire 40-minute operation was indeed captured on cameras mounted on the helmets of Navy SEALs. US military officials are still reviewing the footage, which they... More »

Bush to Obama: 'Good Call'

Says Osama killing was for justice, not 'hatred'

(Newser) - George W. Bush was reading My Pet Goat to schoolchildren when he got word of the 9/11 attacks, and now we know his whereabouts when the Osama bin Laden story finally ended: "I was eating souffle at Rise Restaurant with Laura and two buddies." Informed that President Obama... More »

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