The University of Yale has a freshman who is thankful to have landed up in the prestigious institution rather than the Guantanamo Bay prison.
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.
He calls the truce offer part of a game.
The dreaded terrorist, however, also offered a 'long-term truce' to the Americans.
The CNN quoted US intelligence officials saying that Ayman al-Zawahiri was assisting the al-Qaeda chief.
While the chances of an Al Qaeda-mounted operation outside Iraq to avenge Saddam's execution are thus minimal, there is a greater danger of individual Muslims in the overseas diaspora carrying out acts of terrorism to avenge his execution
No, it was not Osama Bin Laden, the most wanted terrorist on the planet, but a wild elephant proclaimed rogue by the Assam Wildlife and Forest Department.
The full text of the White House Intelligence briefing on Al Qaeda, August 2001.
The software called Analyst's Notebook was also used in the capture of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
Iran's state radio on Saturday quoted unnamed sources saying that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was captured in Pakistan 'a long time back.'d Osama bin Laden was captured in Pakistan 'a long time ago.'
The Pentagon is moving elements of a supersecret commando unit from Iraq to Afghanistan to step up the hunt for Osama bin Laden, reports Rowan Scarborough in The Washington Times.
It was the first document to emerge from what the military described as a ''treasure trove'' of information when Zarqawi was killed, the newspaper reported.
A terrorism expert says the London blasts were carried out by a 'home-grown' group.
It is regrouping under a new commander in\n\nthe remote Khyber area of Pakistan.
"We don't have any evidence that Osama is in Pakistan," Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao told reporters.
Matthew Bissonnette turned over a hard drive that contained the photo to US investigators in exchange for an agreement that he wouldn't be prosecuted.
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."
Later addressing a press conference, Musharraf said that he would not allow the sovereignty of his country to be breached by the US.
Initially slotted for 2005, it was advanced in response to the recent assassination attempts on Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf.
A senior Chinese diplomat was among those injured in terrorist attack.
Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has called upon Palestinian militant factions to shun mainstream politics and end the ceasefire with Israel, saying in a new video that jihad is the only way to bring about change in the Middle East.
'Having more than 30,000 international forces in Afghanistan and increasingly building the capability of Afghan intelligence forces, we are certain that he [bin Laden] is spending most of his time in Pakistan'
Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden is in eastern Iran and not the rugged tribal areas of Pakistan's northwestern frontier where many believe him to be on the run, United States intelligence officials were on Monday quoted as saying.\n\n
Durrani said that if bin Laden were captured in Pakistan he would be turned over to the United States.
Incidentally, Mufti Kalimi had issued a fatwa, declaring people who had attended a 'namaz-e-janaza' led by a Deobandi sect Maulana as non-Muslims. He had also termed their marriages as void.
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