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The Hill
April 3, 2018
The original mission in Afghanistan was to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, dismantle the al Qaeda network inside Afghanistan, and topple the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan because they gave safe haven to bin Laden and al Qaeda. The Taliban was driven from power in a matter of weeks.
Aljazeera.com
April 3, 2018
Menacing tinderboxes like John Bolton, Steve Bannon, Osama Bin Laden, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi are triumphalist Christian and Muslim lunatics at each other's throats - with the fate of the entire planet at the mercy of their dangerous delusions. The fact that we must resort to the realms of film, literatureÃÂ ...
Newsweek
April 3, 2018
As Saudi Arabia's young Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman tours the United States, the son of Osama bin Laden is taking aim at the alliance between Washington and Riyadh. Osama bin Laden's son Hamza has long been viewed as the heir apparent of Al-Qaeda. Despite being relatively hidden fromÃÂ ...
Long War Journal
April 2, 2018
Both the US Treasury and State Departments have identified a number of al Qaeda figures responsible for runing this pipeline, which Osama bin Laden himself described as the “main artery” for his organization. Hamza bin Laden himself lived in Iran for years after the 9/11 attacks. The wedding videoÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
March 19, 2018
The Navy SEAL who is believed to have killed Osama Bin Laden has declared that all the available photos of the body are fake, and has called on the US government to release the real images. In a recent interview Robert O'Neill offered new details about the Abbottabad raid that contradict other first-handÃÂ ...
Newsweek
March 16, 2018
The Navy SEAL who is said to have killed Osama bin Laden claims images showing the corpse of the Al-Qaeda chief are fake and that the real ones should be made public. Robert O'Neill made the claim in an interview with the newspaper El Mundo about his role in the tracking down of the world'sÃÂ ...
Tipperary Star
March 12, 2018
Independent Councillor Michael O'Meara has told members of Tipperary County Council that he doesn't care if funding for roads in the county comes from "Osama Bin Laden or your man in Korea" so long as it arrives to tend to the ever worsening crisis. A lengthy debate took place at today's meeting of theÃÂ ...
Zee News
March 10, 2018
“It is extraordinary that the state which protected Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Mullah Omar should have the gumption to play the victim,” said India's Second Secretary Mini Devi Kumam while responding to Pakistan's accusations of human rights violations at 37th session of UN Human Rights Council.
UT The Daily Texan
March 6, 2018
They are introduced separately, but their interconnected relationship becomes apparent as tensions between the U.S. and Osama Bin Laden come to a head over U.S. military occupation of Islamic nations. The series currently has three episodes available for streaming, with new episodes releasing everyÃÂ ...
CANOE
February 27, 2018
The Navy SEAL who killed terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Ladin was booted from a flight this week, accused of being boozed up and belligerent. After boarding a Nashville flight bound for Dallas, Rob O'Neill was asked to deboard for being too intoxicated, eyewitnesses told TMZ. He didn't go quietly,ÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
February 27, 2018
A US Navy SEAL who claims to have shot Osama bin Laden in the head in 2011 has been reportedly thrown off a plane for being drunk, rude and combative. While his assistant claims the reports are exaggerated, social media displays a mixed reaction. Robert "Rob" O'Neill, a US Navy SEAL known forÃÂ ...
The Sun
February 27, 2018
THE Navy SEAL who shot dead Osama Bin Laden was chucked off a plane for being too drunk, it has been reported. Rob O'Neill, one of the elite SEAL Team Six sent to Pakistan to kill the 9/11 mastermind, allegedly called an airline employee a "vile" name before passing out. Rob O'Neill, one of the eliteÃÂ ...
Complex
February 24, 2018
After conducting an anonymous interview with Esquire in 2013, O'Neill had publicly revealed his identity as bin Laden's killer shortly before he appeared on a Fox News special titled The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden. His claims about single-handedly killing the al-Qaeda resulted in widespreadÃÂ ...
Economic Times
February 18, 2018
Let me share a piece of history. US provided arms, money, training and political support to the Mujahideen and Pakistan to fight against the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. In no time, those Mujahideen became Al Qaeda and Taliban to wage war against the US. Under the leadership of Osama Bin Laden,ÃÂ ...
FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay
February 15, 2018
Rob O'Neill is best remembered as the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden. FOX 13's Russell Rhodes spoke to him while he was in Tampa for a fundraiser for Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister's election campaign. For most, the memorable image after the death of bin Laden was a roomÃÂ ...
The Independent
January 5, 2018
Osama bin Laden's eldest grandson has died, according to a letter written by the boy's father and obtained by terror monitors. The former al-Qaeda leader's son Hamza described Osama bin Hamza bin Laden, thought to have been aged 12, as a “hero cub” and “martyr” but gave no cause of death.
The Nation.
October 31, 2017
Honestly, if there's an afterlife, then the soul of Osama bin Laden, whose body was consigned to the waves by the US Navy back in 2011, must be swimming happily with the dolphins and sharks. At the cost of the sort of spare change that Donald Trump recently offered aides and former campaign officialsÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Daniels dismissed claims against two Saudi banks and a Saudi construction company that had ties with Osama bin Laden, citing that he did not have jurisdiction. At least 3,000 Americans were killed after four planes were hijacked in 2001. Two planes deliberately crashed into the twin towers of the WorldÃÂ ...
Daily News & Analysis
December 31, 1999
(Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman) Tehran denied allegations made by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that Iran was harbouring Osama bin Laden's son and supporting him as the new leader of al Qaeda. , DNAÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
December 31, 1999
Co-host of CBS This Morning Norah O'Donnell bagged the exclusive interview, in which the crown prince said the son of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is being supported by Iran. "Unfortunately, Iran is playing a harmful role. The Iranian regime is based on pure ideology. Many of the Al-QaedaÃÂ ...
Times of India
December 31, 1999
LONDON: Tehran denied on Tuesday allegations made by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that Iran was harbouring Osama bin Laden's son and supporting him as the new leader of al Qaeda. ... Since Osama bin Laden's death, al Qaeda has been led by his former deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
SAMAA TV News Pakistan
February 13, 2018
NEW YORK: A US restaurant worker inspired by Osama bin Laden was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for wounding 31 people in a 2016 New York bombing, branded “extremely dangerous” by a federal judge. Afghan-born Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 30, told the court that he became radicalized after beingÃÂ ...
NDTV
February 13, 2018
French Trial Opens For Suspected High-Ranking Al-Qaeda Member. Naamen Meziche is suspected of first travelling to Afghanistan in the early 1990s, being trained by the jihadist group and eventually being assigned to the cell led by Younis al-Mauritani, a close associate of Osama bin Laden in charge ofÃÂ ...
The Independent
February 10, 2018
The US Navy Seal who killed Osama Bin Laden has called Donald Trump's plan for a military parade “third world bulls***”. “We prepare. We deter. We fight. Stop this conversation,” Robert O'Neill wrote on Twitter. The member of the elite Seal Team Six which killed the al Qaeda leader in May 2011 at theÃÂ ...
The Independent
February 10, 2018
The Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) director Ahmad Farouk Musa said the Malaysian ruling Malay party, Umno, is tolerant towards the spreading of a form of Islam that was practised by Osama Bin Laden (OBL). OBL was a Salafist. He was hunted down as a terrorist leader by American marines in Pakistan,ÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
January 28, 2018
When Osama bin Laden appeared out of the darkness in the middle of the night, the first thing that struck me was how tall he was, said American journalist Peter Bergen who interviewed the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in1997. “Osama was 6-foot-4-inches-tall. I expected someone revolutionary, but heÃÂ ...
Florida Politics (blog)
January 25, 2018
Chad Chronister was just sworn in as Hillsborough County Sheriff less than four months ago, and he's already on a pace for more than $500,000 raised as he goes before voters for the first time in November. But he wasn't the star attraction at his own fundraiser at World of Beer in Tampa's Westshore districtÃÂ ...
Kaiser Family Foundation
January 24, 2018
“Shakil Afridi has languished in jail for years — since 2011, when the Pakistani doctor used a vaccination scam in an attempt to identify Osama bin Laden's home, aiding U.S. Navy Seals who tracked and killed the al-Qaeda leader. Americans might wonder how Pakistan could imprison a man who helpedÃÂ ...
WFLA
January 24, 2018
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Rob O'Neill's life is the stuff of movies. Several parts of his life have already been turned into feature films. He was a part of Seal Team 6 when they rescued Captain Richard Phillips from the Maersk Alabama after it was attacked by Somali pirates in April 2009. He was part of theÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
January 22, 2018
Shakil Afridi has languished in jail for years – since 2011, when the Pakistani doctor used a vaccination scam in an attempt to identify Osama bin Laden's home, aiding US Navy Seals who tracked and killed the al-Qaeda leader. Americans might wonder how Pakistan could imprison a man who helped trackÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 18, 2018
A German man who is said to have been an associate of former Al-Qaeda leader and 9/11 Attacks mastermind Osama Bin Laden has been charged with ... to kill Americans with high-level al Qaeda terrorists Khaled Shaikh Mohammad, Usama bin Laden and others," Berman said in a statement released onÃÂ ...
The Australian
January 13, 2018
The Black Hawks swooped in low and fast, almost invisible on the moonless night. Inside a mud-walled compound on the outskirts of the garrison town of Abbottabad in northern Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was sleeping deeply. It was his Yemeni wife Amal who first heard the choppers approaching.
Cinestaan.com
January 9, 2018
Not many would know that Vyas was one of the few actors in the world to play the most dreaded terrorist — late Osama Bin Laden. It was for Ketan Mehta's TV series called Time Bomb 9/11, that ran from June-December 2005. The focus of the series was Laden's mission to destroy Delhi and also kill theÃÂ ...
The Sun
January 9, 2018
THE Pentagon has dispatched a supercarrier - from which Osama bin Laden's bullet ridden body was dumped - to practise clobbering nuke mad North Korea. The USS Carl Vinson is sailing towards Korean peninsula today accompanied by an array of guided-missile destroyers, warships, warplanes andÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
January 7, 2018
The Abbottabad documents, disclosed eight years after the CIA raided Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, shed light on Bin Laden's house and how it was self-sufficient. The house was built in 2003. According to images disclosed with the Abbottabad documents, Bin Laden tried toÃÂ ...
The Independent
January 6, 2018
Osama bin Laden's eldest grandson has died, according to a letter written by the boy's father and obtained by terror monitors. The former al-Qaeda leader's son Hamza described Osama bin Hamza bin Laden, thought to have been aged 12, as a “hero cub” and “martyr” but gave no cause of death.
Hindustan Times
January 1, 2018
The 12-year-old grandson of slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has reportedly been killed in an air strike along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, according to reports on Monday. Osama bin Hamza bin Laden died sometime last year, according to a leaked letter sent by his father Hamza bin Laden toÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
January 1, 2018
The 12-year-old grandson of slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has reportedly been killed in an air strike along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, according to reports on Monday. Osama bin Hamza bin Laden died sometime last year, according to a leaked letter sent by his father Hamza bin Laden toÃÂ ...
Outlook India
December 27, 2017
"He (Osama bin Laden) has planned to send his courier, who is a national of Pakistan and a resident of Multan, named Musa Tariq, through Waziristan with explosives to be used in executing the murder plots. On coming Sunday — which is December 22 — this person will be in the area of Dera Ismail KhanÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
December 12, 2017
Sorry, Shakespeare. And hats off to you, my dude. What a run you had! Having been born in Stratford-upon-Avon, you lived here, died here, and as such, for approximately 400 years, you were the town's greatest claim to fame. And rightly so, if I may chip in. Rightly so. But not any more, mate: you've beenÃÂ ...
Week Facts
December 31, 1999
The previous Navy SEAL who claims he discharged the shot that slaughtered Osama container Laden is impacting President Donald Trump's want for a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. “A military parade is third world b – . We get ready. We prevent. We battle. Stop this discussion,” RobertÃÂ ...
Toronto Star
December 31, 1999
Just this past November, the CIA released a trove of declassified material recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound during the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in which the Al Qaeda founder and Sept. 11 mastermind was killed, along with one of his sons, Khalid. One of the videos provides glimpses of Hamza onÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
December 12, 2017
Sorry, Shakespeare. And hats off to you, my dude. What a run you had! Having been born in Stratford-upon-Avon, you lived here, died here, and as such, for approximately 400 years, you were the town's greatest claim to fame. And rightly so, if I may chip in. Rightly so. But not any more, mate: you've beenÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 11, 2017
The Saudi Arabian monarchy should be overthrown for betraying Muslims and forming strategic alliances with the West, Hamza bin Laden, a son of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, stated in an Al-Qaeda propaganda video released Saturday. The video, released by Al-Qaeda's as-Sahab MediaÃÂ ...
NDTV
December 1, 2017
Answering a question whether the Pakistani government was aware of Osama hiding in Abbottabad, Mr Obama said, "We had no evidence that Pakistani government was aware of Osama bin Laden's presence there but that is something obviously we looked at. I will leave it you to characterise beyond whatÃÂ ...
Jordan Times
November 30, 2017
BAGHDAD — Just four days before he was about to legally change his first name, Iraqi teenager Osama Bin Laden Hussein died after being electrocuted, a cousin said on Thursday. The 16-year-old was named by his father after Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, whose group carried out the SeptemberÃÂ ...
Business Insider
November 28, 2017
Former chief official White House photographer Pete Souza, author of "Obama: An Intimate Portrait," tells the story behind the iconic photo of President Obama in the Situation Room during the raid on Osama bin Laden. Following is a transcript of the video. Pete Souza: My name is Pete Souza, I was theÃÂ ...
Australia-Israel Jewish Affairs Council
November 27, 2017
On May 2, 2011, a US Navy SEAL team made a brief stop in Abbottabad, Pakistan where they terminated Osama bin Laden's life and then moved on to their second mission: collecting as much information as possible from within the al-Qaeda leader's compound. They carried off computers, memoranda,ÃÂ ...
Yahoo News
November 22, 2017
Robert O'Neill, the Navy Seal from SEAL Team Six, better known as the guy who shot Osama Bin Laden, joined comedian Jim Jefferies on The Jim Jefferies Show to fire off some very serious artillery. Jefferies said, “In honor of my guest, I ordered a buffet of giant dangerous weapons. Rob's a perfect shot ofÃÂ ...
Yahoo Cricket (blog)
November 22, 2017
Robert O'Neill, the Navy Seal from SEAL Team Six, better known as the guy who shot Osama Bin Laden, joined comedian Jim Jefferies on The ...
