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Pakistan orders Osama bin Laden’s widows, childred deported
A Pakistani court on Monday convicted Osama bin Laden’s three widows and two of his grown-up daughters of illegal residency, sentencing them to 45 days’ detention and ordering their deportation. The Al-Qaeda terror chief’s two Saudi and one Yemeni widows, together with their children, have been in Pakistani custody since…
Bin Laden ‘fathered four children while on run’
Osama bin Laden fathered four children as he hid out in Pakistanafter the 9/11 attacks, his youngest wife told interrogators, according to a police report seen by AFP on Friday. Amal Abdulfattah’s account provides rare details of the Al-Qaedaleader’s life from when he fled Afghanistan in late 2001 until his death aged 54 last May…
Pakistan charges bin Laden wives with illegal entry
Pakistan has charged Osama bin Laden’s three widows with illegal entry, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Thursday, without saying when it had done so or when a trial would begin. Pakistan took the Al-Qaeda terror chief’s wives — two Saudis and a Yemeni — and around 10 of their children…
Pakistan demolishing bin Laden compound: police
Pakistani security forces on Saturday began demolishing the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in a covert US raid in May in the northwestern garrison town of Abbottabad, police and witnesses said. “Two bulldozers are engaged, the demolition work is in progress, it is being done by security forces, including troops,” a police official on…
Suspected Bali bomber on trial in Indonesia
A Muslim militant arrested in the same Pakistani town where US commandos later killed Osama bin Laden stood trial in Indonesia Monday on charges including murder for the 2002 Bali bombings. Umar Patek, 45, faces five other counts, including bomb-making and illegal firearms possession, and prosecutors say they will push…
Top officer seeks ‘more autonomy’ for elite special ops forces: report
The top US special operations officer, who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, is seeking new authority to move his forces faster and outside of normal Pentagon deployment channels, according to The New York Times. The newspaper said Admiral William McRaven, who leads the Special Operations Command, is…
Bin Laden told children to ‘live in peace in the West’
Slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden urged his children to go live peacefully in the West and get a university education, his brother-in-law said in an interview published Sunday. Zakaria al-Sadah, the brother of bin Laden’s Yemeni fifth wife Amal, told Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper that the Saudi-born extremist believed…
He’s back: Film raises Zombie bin Laden from the dead
The Obama administration thought they had planned for every contingency when they took out terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, but they didn’t expect this. In a low-budget film that could be making its way screens this summer, an undead Osama returns from his watery grave to raise an army of…
Official: Bin Laden kill team rescued Somali hostages
The U.S. soldiers who rescued two aid workers in Somalia on Tuesday night were with SEAL Team Six, the same Navy SEAL team that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, an administration official told The Associated Press on Wednesday morning. The hostages, an American woman and a Danish man who…
Obama: It’s time to ‘do some nation-building right here at home’
President Barack Obama said the state of the US union was “getting stronger,” defending his policies by saying “we’ve come too far to turn back now.” “As long as I’m president, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum,” Obama said in his State of…
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