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Hillary on bin Laden Raid: We Couldn't Breathe Watching It

She says it was no surprise he was in Pakistan

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton touched on a lot of topics during her keynote address at the US Naval Academy yesterday, including Syria and North Korea. But the part that caught ABC 's ear was when the secretary delved into the death of Osama bin Laden. Clinton didn't mince words when...

Child Porn Suspect Takes bin Laden's Spot on FBI List

Eric Justin Toth has been on the run since 2008

(Newser) - The FBI has finally replaced Osama bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, but the new addition doesn't quite have the stature of the mass-murdering terrorist mastermind. The new face of alleged evil: Eric Justin Toth, an ex-third grade teacher who's been on the lam since...

A Peek at Lives of bin Laden Widows
 A Peek at Lives of 
 bin Laden Widows 
NEW VIDEO
Apr 10, 2012 10:24 AM CDT

A Peek at Lives of bin Laden Widows

Pakistan struggling to decide what to do with them

(Newser) - Ever wanted to take a candid look at the home lives of the bin Laden family? Well, al-Aribiya television recently released a video that shows Osama bin Laden's widows and children in Pakistani custody, the Telegraph reports. The family, which has been convicted of immigration offenses , is seen in...

Pakistan Sentences, Jails Osama bin Laden's Widows

2 daughters also get 45 days' detention, fine for illegally living in country

(Newser) - The three widows and two eldest daughters of Osama bin Laden have been sentenced to 45 days' imprisonment for illegally living in Pakistan, their lawyer says. They have also been fined 10,000 rupees each—approximately $114, the BBC reports. With a month of detention already behind them, the family...

Bin Laden Fathered 4 Kids While on the Run: Wife

Youngest wife reveals al-Qaeda leader's movements after 9/11

(Newser) - During the nine years Osama bin Laden spent in hiding in Pakistan after 9/11, he made his way between five different homes in the country and fathered four children, according to his youngest wife. As recounted by a Pakistani police report, Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah revealed that two of the children...

Inside bin Laden's Plan to Kill Obama

Documents reveal al-Qaeda leader also wanted Petraeus dead

(Newser) - Documents taken from Osama bin Laden's compound during the US raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader reveal a plot to kill President Obama and David Petraeus. David Ignatius got a look at the documents, which will be available to the public soon, and he reports in the Washington Post...

Pakistan Charges bin Laden Wives for Entering Illegally

Three widows had been living in country without a visa

(Newser) - In the chaos of fleeing to a foreign country to live in a secretive compound with the world's most notorious terrorist, somehow Osama bin Laden's three wives neglected to get visas, and now Pakistan is charging them for it. Pakistan's interior minister says that bin Laden's...

Bin Laden's Last Days Plagued By Bickering Wives

Family worried jealous first wife was going to betray Osama

(Newser) - Not all was domestic bliss for Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad: The bickering of three wives haunted the final days of the al-Qaeda leader, who appeared far older than his age at the time of his death, according to a new report. Bin Laden mostly stayed holed up on the...

Pakistan Tears Down bin Laden's Compound

Abbottabad residents: Turn it into tourist attraction

(Newser) - Under powerful floodlights and surrounded by rings of soldiers and police, heavy machines began today to demolish the three-story compound in northwestern Pakistan where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by US commandos last May. Each blow helped eliminate a concrete reminder of the painful and embarrassing...

Pakistan Fires Nurses for Aiding bin Laden Search

Health workers took part in phony vaccination drive

(Newser) - Pakistan has fired 17 health workers who unwittingly helped the US find Osama bin Laden. The workers—15 nurses and two more senior health officials—were employed by Shakil Afridi, the doctor who ran a phony vaccination scheme on behalf of the CIA in an attempt to confirm the al-Qaeda...

Bin Laden 'Right-Hand Man' Set for Release in Britain

Abu Qatada to face 22-hour curfew in London

(Newser) - A radical cleric described as Osama bin Laden's "right-hand man" in Europe is set for immediate release from a British maximum security prison. Abu Qatada will be housebound for 22 hours a day in London, where he'll wear an electronic tag and face stringent rules on phone...

Bin Laden Told Kids: Move to US or Europe

Pakistan is holding them in security compound for now

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden advised his children against a life of terror, according to one of his brothers-in-law. "He told his own children and grandchildren, go to Europe and America and get a good education," says Zakara al-Sadah, whose sister was the al-Qaeda chief's fifth wife. For now,...

Waterboarding, Paris Hilton Liked More Than Congress

Just 10% approve of work on Hill, according to latest Gallup poll

(Newser) - A Gallup poll released Wednesday finds that Americans' approval of Congress has hit yet another record low: 10%. There aren't many institutions Americans have liked less over the last 50-or-so years, according to Gallup: Only Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and OJ Simpson detective Mark Fuhrman have...

Navy SEALs Boss Told: Shut the Hell Up

Retired general warns all the boasting could be dangerous

(Newser) - The killing of Osama bin Laden was a PR coup for the Obama administration, but one retired general is sick of hearing about it from the Navy SEALs commander. "They’ve been splashing all of this all over the media,” retired Lt. General James Vaught, 85, said at...

Biden: I Advised Against bin Laden Raid

Panetta was the only adviser fully in favor, VP says

(Newser) - Joe Biden has admitted that he made the wrong call on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Describing the decision-making process to House Democrats at their annual retreat, Biden said that when President Obama asked his top advisers for their judgment on whether the raid should go ahead, Leon...

Pentagon to Examine Alleged Leaks on bin Laden Movie

Peter King thinks White House gave too much access to Hollywood

(Newser) - The Defense Department is investigating claims that the White House gave classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid ... to Hollywood. GOP Rep. Peter King sought the investigation following allegations that the administration provided Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow with privileged information for her upcoming film on the raid, reports...

Media Gaffe of the Year: the Obama/Osama Mixup
Media Gaffe of the Year:
the Obama/Osama Mixup
Year in Review
Dec 24, 2011 12:30 PM CST

Media Gaffe of the Year: the Obama/Osama Mixup

...and other mistakes

(Newser) - One is the president of the United States. The other was bent on destroying the United States. So you’d think Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden would be pretty easy to keep straight. But when the former announced the death of the latter, a really embarrassing number of news...

Number of al-Qaeda Leaders Left on US Hit List: 2

Group is all but defeated

(Newser) - Al-Qaeda is on the brink of defeat, shriveling even faster than US officials had predicted in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death. The group now consists of just a few hundred fighters, with only two “high-value” targets left on the CIA’s list—leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, and...

Bin Laden Cried Very Easily: Zawahiri

'He was a delicate, shy man, easily moved to tears'

(Newser) - The new head of al-Qaeda gets gooey-eyed over his old boss in a video being circulated on jihadist websites. Ayman al-Zawahiri invites viewers to join him in reflection on Osama bin Laden's human side, recalling the dead al-Qaeda leader as "tender, gentle, kind, with refined feelings, even when...

Military Says bin Laden Book 'Just Not True'

Author Pfarrer counters that he 'has truth on my side'

(Newser) - Chuck Pfarrer’s book SEAL Target Geronimo, which purports to tell the real, hidden story of the Osama bin Laden raid, is blatantly false, military officials tells the AP —so much so that they’re not even bothering to investigate who might have talked with Pfarrer. “It’s...

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