Contradicting Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's claims, United States President Barack Obama has suggested that Osama bin Laden is still alive and he is operating under the assumption that the Al Qaeda leader is not dead. Addressing a town hall meeting in the central state of Missouri, the US President also reiterated his administration's position that Al-Qaeda and the Taliban "are the single most direct threat to our national security interests."
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said neither Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden nor Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar were present in Pakistan, a day after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton' assertion that the Laden is still in the country.
The raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan was 'not a kill-only' mission as commandos were told to capture the dreaded al Qaeda chief alive if possible, a former Navy SEAL has claimed.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has claimed that world's most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden is not in his country and said no distinction could be made between a good and a bad Taliban. The Pakistan prime minister admitted he had little information on the whereabouts of the Al Qaeda chief and said that the Pakistan army had conducted widespread operations in region such as Swat, South Waziristan and Orakzai tribal region.
The voice on the audio tape aired by an Arabic news channel said there would be no truce with the Americans.
A day after Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said his intelligence believes that Osama bin Laden is dead, the United States today said it has no information on that and would continue to hunt for the most-wanted terrorist of the world.
The United States does not plan to release images related to the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan fearing that this might incite emotions, a top counter terrorism official has said ahead of the first death anniversary of the Al Qaeda
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said the United States may be aware about Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's present location.
Pakistan has contacted governments of Saudi Arabia and Yemen for the repatriation of slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's three wives and their children, according to media reports.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik asserted on Monday that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is not in his country and if anyone provided information about him the government would take action.
Months before his killing in May 2011, Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was "utterly" focused on striking the United States in its "heartland".
After Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden moved to Abbottabad he was neither the commander-in-chief nor an ideologue par excellence, but a senior jihadi who mattered little.
Ali Soufan, the former FBI agent who was the bureau's lead investigator of Al Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks, told CBS News the letters reveal Hamza to be a young man who adores his father and wants to carry on his murderous ideology.
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was protected by elements of Pakistan's security apparatus in return for millions of dollars of Saudi cash, an American security analyst has claimed.
When asked if he is in Pakistan, the Afghan leader replied: "Probably he is there. That's what the reports say now that come across."
Since Osama's mansion has been leveled to the ground and his family members will soon be deported, the saga of the Al Qaeda chief's Pakistan stint may come to an end, says Tahir Ali
Osama bin Laden's son has warned that if his father is killed, his successors, who will take charge of the Al Qaeda, will be 'much, much worse'. "From what I knew of my father and the people around him, I believe he is the most kind among them, because some are much, much worse They want to make more violence, to create more problems," ABC News quoted Omar bin Laden, who was raised in the midst of his father's fighters, as saying.
Two of Osama bin Laden's widows were involved in a vicious catfight in a Pakistani prison over the youngest wife's suspicion that the eldest had betrayed the slain Al Qaeda leader, a media report said today.
In a sensational claim, a former Pakistan army general has said that Osama bin Laden had been kept in a "safe house" of Intelligence Bureau in Abbottabad with "full knowledge" of the then ruler Pervez Musharraf and possibly current Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani.
Pakistani authorities have allowed family members of slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, including his widows and children, to leave the country, a media report said on Monday.
With Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden remaining elusive, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmud Qureshi has said the United States may be aware of his whereabouts and asked American intelligence agencies to share any information they have on him. "US may be aware of the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden," Qureshi, currently on a visit to Washington, was quoted as saying. "If the US intelligence is that clear, they should share that intelligence with us," he said.
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An audio tape may be circulated to prove the claim.
A Taliban detainee in Pakistan has claimed that one of his contacts met Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan earlier this year. "In 2009, in January or February I met this friend of mine. He said he had come from meeting sheikh Osama, and he could arrange for me to meet him," the detainee said.
Against the backdrop of the killing of Al Qeada leader Osama bin Laden and the situation in Pakistan, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Monday took stock of the country's overall security scenario with the military top brass.
United States intelligence officials have reportedly questioned the three "hostile" widows of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan but under the watchful eyes of the Inter-Services Intelligence.
The US and Pakistan then struck a deal that the US would raid his compound but make it look as if Pakistan was unaware, Hersh said.
The White House has rejected a revelation by a prominent US journalist who claimed that an operative of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence had revealed the hideout of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden who was later killed in a raid by American commandos.
Slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden apparently had friction with his followers over the terror group's strategy and operational focus and at times they were not on the same page, United States intelligence said, citing documents seized from his safe house in Abbottabad.
Forced into deep cover by relentless pressure from the United States and his dreaded group fragmenting, slain Osama bin Laden was planning attacks on America and Europe till his last moments, the Al Qaeda chief's hand-written journals seized from his Abbottabad hideout have revealed.
US special forces came away with hard drives, DVDs and a trove of documents from the Abbottabad safe house of Osama bin Laden which might tip American intelligence to Al Qaeda's operational plan and lead the manhunt to his presumed successor Ayman al Zawahiri.
Amidst the celebrations over dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden's killing, some political figures have passed statements that they really should not be making.
Pakistani troops laid an extensive security blanket over Abbottabad in northwest Pakistan shortly after United States forces killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, cutting off access to the compound where the world's most wanted man was gunned down.
Suspecting that the Pakistan government and the Inter-Services Intelligence have backed United States in its operation against Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, extremist organisations have decided to avenge the killing. There's no stopping the Taliban and more attacks similar to the one at the Karachi naval base are expected, fears the Pakistan media. Tahir Ali reports.
An Islamic cleric calling himself 'Osama bin London' groomed and corrupted young Muslims, including the London bombers, at terror training camps across Britain, a court in London was told.
Osama bin Laden has been sidelined by his followers and has no longer any control over the Al Qaeda terror network, according to intelligence officials in Britain and the US.
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The United States federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Friday dropped terrorism charges against slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden who was killed by American commandos in Pakistan.
Even almost two years after the world's most wanted terrorist was slain by American special forces, President Barack Obama's administration is refusing to release photos of Osama bin Laden's body, warning that this would risk "grave damage" to national security.
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