The CIA did not target him once as the UAE royal family was with him at that time, the agency's director, George Tenet, told the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the US.
Former president Pervez Musharraf knew that Osama bin Laden was hiding in the garrison town of Abbottabad and the Pakistani intelligence itself had made the safe house that sheltered him, a former Inter-Services Intelligence chief has alleged, according to a media report.
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The Pakistani judicial commission investigating the killing of Osama bin Laden has interviewed the al Qaeda leader's widows and daughters for the first time, the panel announced on Wednesday.
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The news channel admits having video tapes from the Al Qaeda which it never aired.
The Al Qaeda leader is likely to be hiding in a few Pakistani provinces in the northwest, including Waziristan, officials said.
Khan's statement is significant because Pakistan had so far denied that it had any information about the hideout of Osama before he was killed in a covert raid by a US Navy SEAL team in Abbottabad, a garrison town north of Islamabad, on May 2, 2011.
The accident took place at Balijan near Dergaon this morning when the bus with 45 people on board collided with the goods vehicle, Golaghat Superintendent of Police Rajen Singh told PTI.
In a major development, media reports in United States reported that Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda founder and world's most wanted terrorist, is dead.
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Pakistani Parliamentarians were left stunned when a lawmaker led a prayer for slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the National Assembly despite being told by Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi not to do so.
It's been six years since United States Navy Seals entered a compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan and killed Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the dreaded 9/11 attacks and the head of the Al Qaeda group. Six years later, Robert O'Neill, a Navy Seal, who became known as the man who killed Bin Laden, has for the first time published a detailed account of the mission that lead to the 9/11 mastermind being gunned down in a secure compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011.
Former United States President George W Bush invited Osama bin Laden's son Omar to the White House in the final days of his presidency in a last-ditch attempt to track down the world's most wanted terrorist, bin Laden junior has claimed.
United States sources, though, denied that bin Laden is dead.\n\n
In fact, Omar's first wife Rasha is enraged by the publicity over her husband's second marriage to the five-time British divorcee.
The visit comes two days after Pakistan officials shared with the Chinese embassy the preliminary findings of their investigation into the attack.
Contradicting Central Intelligence Agency's assertion that it has no intelligence on the world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden since 2003, leaked secret US military documents say the Al Qaeda chief personally attended a recruitment drive for suicide bombers in Pakistan in 2006.
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A noted Pakistani journalist, Rahimullah Yusufzai, who had interviewed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden twice in 1998, has said that he believes that the world's most wanted man is alive.Yusufzai, who described Laden as a 'shy and polite' man, said the 9/11 mastermind is alive despite several claims that he has succumbed to injuries sustained during United States' drone strikes.Yusufzai, 56, pointed out that there is no evidence to prove that Laden is dead.
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The Pentagon has warned to take legal action against a former Navy SEAL who has written a first-person account of the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, saying that he has violated his signed agreement not to divulge classified information.
The CNN quoted US intelligence officials saying that Ayman al-Zawahiri was assisting the al-Qaeda chief.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday said his intelligence believes that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is dead, but admitted they have no proof.
United States President Barack Obama on Thursday said that the US has delivered justice to Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and put his terror group on the path of defeat.
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The US on Tueday released new set of documents that it recovered from the Abbottabad hideout of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar leaked the whereabouts of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden to American investigators, the Sunday Mirror reported.
There is no reason to believe that anyone in the highest ranks of the Pakistan government knew about the location of Osama bin Laden, the White House has said.
Matchboxes featuring Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's photograph and offering a reward of US$ five million for information about him are being circulated in Pakistan's tribal North West Frontier Province. Postal and email addresses for sending information on the Al Qaeda chief are printed on the matchboxes. A leaflet within the matchboxes, containing 30 match sticks, says bin Laden is wanted by the US government on charges of killing 220 innocent citizens.
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said the elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden should be executed if captured alive. "If he was captured alive, then we would make a decision to bring the full weight of not only US justice, but world justice down on him," 47-year-old Obama said in an interview to CNN, excerpts of which were released by the network on Friday.
Omar bin Laden, 26, was recently in the news for tying the knot with 52-year-old granny Zaina al Sabah bin Laden, formerly Jane Felixe-Browne, whom he had met in Egypt.Felixe-Browne told a TV channel that her husband had passed all the necessary immigration tests, but said she was '99 per cent' sure his application would be rejected because his father was the Al Qaida chief. "We will go to the (European) court of human rights," she said.
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If we do not get out of our denial mode and act firmly against the extremist and anti-national elements, a 9/11 is waiting to happen in our homeland.
It is yet to be known how the Al Qaeda propaganda material made its way to Bihar.
The US has been mounting pressure on Pakistan to act against terror.
The 30-minute videotape, aired by Al Jazeera on Friday, appeared to have been recently made, since bin Laden refers to the Democratic victory in Congress and to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was elected in May.
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