Osama bin Laden

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Osama Turned to Kidnapping to Raise Cash

Al-Qaeda was increasingly cut off from funding sources

(Newser) - Even terrorists have to pay the bills, and files taken from Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad show that al-Qaeda was increasingly cash-poor and turning to kidnapping and ransom as a way to raise some revenue. The shift shows that a crackdown on al-Qaeda's funding has proven financially...

Hunt for bin Laden&#39;s Body Is Futile
 Hunt for bin Laden's  
 Body Is Futile 
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Jun 18, 2011 3:12 PM CDT

Hunt for bin Laden's Body Is Futile

Bill Warren will almost certainly return empty-handed

(Newser) - Treasure-hunter Bill Warren has caused a stir with his plan to find Osama bin Laden’s remains in the Arabian Sea. But as Brian Palmer explains in Slate , Warren has almost no shot of succeeding. For one thing, he is trying to find treasure without a map. Unless he’s...

'Arrogant' Zawahiri Could Be Bad News for al-Qaeda

Former No. 2 lacks charisma, may struggle to rebuild organization

(Newser) - Ayman al-Zawahiri's new gig as al-Qaeda's leader could actually spell trouble for the organization—most of all because he’s cantankerous. “He was arrogant, angry, and extreme in his ideas,” the son of Osama bin Laden's mentor, who met Zawahiri in the 1980s, tells the...

Pakistan Army Rails Against US Ties

Relations between US and Pakistani security forces hit nadir

(Newser) - The US-Pakistan security alliance has deteriorated so badly that Pakistani officers actually jeered top general Ashfaq Kayani at a town-hall-style meeting last month, demanding to know why Pakistan still supports US policy, officials tell the Washington Post . That kind of open criticism “is something no Pakistani military commander has...

Ayman al-Zawahiri Replaces Osama bin Laden, Will Lead al-Qaeda
 Zawahiri Takes bin Laden's Job 
Jun 16, 2011 7:57 AM CDT

Zawahiri Takes bin Laden's Job

Longtime No. 2 gets expected promotion

(Newser) - Al-Qaeda has officially filled the opening left by Osama bin Laden, announcing that Ayman al-Zawahiri will take over as head of the terror organization. The move was widely expected, as Zawahiri had long served as bin Laden's second-in-command. “The general command of al-Qaeda announces, after consultations, the appointment...

Pakistan Busts CIA's bin Laden Informants

Army major among arrested informants who aided US: NYT

(Newser) - The reward for at least five Pakistanis for helping the CIA find terror boss Osama bin Laden was to be arrested by their nation's military spy agency. The New York Times reports that those busted include a man who owned a safe house in Abbottabad from which CIA agents...

Diver Bill Warren to Scour Arabian Sea for Osama bin Laden's Body
 Diver to Hunt for Osama's Body 
Jun 12, 2011 10:50 AM CDT

Diver to Hunt for Osama's Body

California salvage diver wants to be really sure we got him

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden may be sleeping with the fishes, but he's a wanted man still: A California diver Fox News describes as "eccentric" is going to scour the Arabian Sea until he finds—and photographs—the corpse of the notorious terrorist. For the bargain price of $400,000,...

Pakistan Minister: Al-Qaeda Honcho '100%' Dead

Says Ilyas Kashmiri killed in US drone strike Friday

(Newser) - Pakistan's interior minister is absolutely positive that wanted al-Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri was killed Friday in a US drone strike. "I can confirm 100 percent that he is dead," Rehman Malik said, though he didn't say how his government knew that or if it had evidence....

Osama bin Laden Courier and Brother Identified as Abrar and Ibrahim Said Ahmad
 Bin Laden Courier Identified 
Jun 2, 2011 12:48 PM CDT

Bin Laden Courier Identified

Brothers Abrar and Ibrahim Said Ahmad were Osama's link to outside

(Newser) - The courier who inadvertently led the US to Osama bin Laden has been identified, along with his brother. Abrar and Ibrahim Said Ahmad were born in Kuwait, but their family hailed from a one-time Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan, according to a senior Pakistani security official. The Wall Street Journal...

Bin Laden Offered Great HR Benefits

And he was meticulous about receipts

(Newser) - As the US combs through records found in Osama bin Laden’s compound, they’re getting an inside look at what the terrorist leader was like—as a "corporate" boss. One thing they’ve learned over the years: Al-Qaeda members got great HR benefits, including, for married members, a...

Bin Laden Considered Striking Deal With Pakistan

Seized documents show he and aides discussed seeking protection

(Newser) - Another nugget from the documents seized by Navy Seals: Osama bin Laden and his aides talked about trying to strike a bargain with Pakistan, the New York Times reports. Under the plan, al-Qaeda would agree not to attack Pakistani targets in exchange for protection. The documents don't say whether...

Clinton Visits Pakistan—and It Doesn't Go Very Well

NYT describes Clinton as awkward, unsmiling

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton met with senior leaders in Pakistan today, including President Asif Ali Zardari and the chief of the army, to discuss the country’s future in the fight against terror. The New York Times puts it succinctly: The visit “did not appear to go well.” In place...

Pakistan Lets CIA Scour bin Laden House

Team will get its first up-close look at the place

(Newser) - Pakistan has given the CIA its blessing to search Osama bin Laden’s compound for anything American forces may have missed during their clandestine night raid. An agency forensics team is expected to land in Abbottabad in a matter of days, armed with high-tech equipment designed to sniff out anything...

Obama: US 'Would Repeat bin Laden Raid'

President calls for better US-Pakistan ties

(Newser) - The killing of Osama bin Laden by US special forces has strained US-Pakistan relations, but President Obama says he would do it again if another militant leader was discovered there. "Our job is to secure the United States," Obama said in an interview with the BBC . "We...

Rumsfeld: We Woulda Hit bin Laden Same Way

Praises intel, SEALs, says hit was years in the making

(Newser) - Add Donald Rumsfeld to the list of Republicans heaping praise for Osama bin Laden's killing on anyone but the Obama administration: "The capabilities to do it were developed over time by previous administrations, and they benefit the country, and the intelligence had been gathered over a long period...

Bin Laden Wanted to Hit Oil Tankers

Abbottabad documents show he wanted to spike oil prices

(Newser) - When Osama bin Laden wasn't maybe watching porn, he was apparently plotting his next devastating attack. Documents pulled from bin Laden's Abbottabad compound indicate that the terror leader next was planning to hijack oil tankers and blow them up at sea, reports the AP —an attempt he...

Feds Won't Pay bin Laden Bounty

Nobody to receive $25M reward

(Newser) - Nobody is going to receive the $25 million bounty attached to Osama bin Laden, government officials say. The raid that killed bin Laden was the result of electronic intelligence, not information provided by human informants, so the money offered under the Rewards for Justice program will go unclaimed, officials tell...

CIA Osama Hunter Helped Bilk Pentagon of $200M

Marty Martin linked to oil company's big government payday

(Newser) - A CIA operative in charge of hunting down Osama bin Laden is a war profiteer who helped bilk the Pentagon out of some $200 million , reports Gawker . Marty Martin was put in charge of tracking down the terror mastermind from 2002-2004, and boasted to the AP that those early efforts...

Osama Praises Arab Spring in Newly Released Message

Al-Qaeda releases recording made weeks before death

(Newser) - Dead terror kingpin Osama bin Laden is full of praise for the revolutions sweeping the Arab world in a recording released posthumously by al-Qaeda. In the 12-minute message, bin Laden hails the people of Egypt and Tunisia for ridding themselves of tyrants and predicts that " the winds of change...

Church to Honor Prayer Request for Osama

'He needs forgiveness,' says Catholic parishioner in Florida

(Newser) - A Catholic man in Florida is testing his fellow parishioners capacity for forgiveness this weekend: Henry Borga paid $10 to have the name Osama bin Laden entered in the church bulletin for Sunday prayers at the Holy Name of Jesus church, reports WPTV in West Palm Beach. "He needs...

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