Monday, May 2, 2011

For 72 hours, Obama held world's best-kept secret

For 72 hours, Obama held world's best-kept secret

For 72 hours, Obama held world's best-kept secret

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Between attending a glamorous White House Correspondents' dinner and meeting families of victims of the Alabama storms, US President Barack Obama successfully managed to put up a "poker face" for nearly 72 hours before he announced Osama bin Laden's death to the world.


US senator asks Pak to prove innocence

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As Pakistan continues to contradict the official American position on the Osama operation, what is clear is that in the aftermath of his killing the tensions between America and Pakistan are already rising. The US has suspended visa services across Pakistan.


Osama bin Laden to join Hitler, Saddam on Time cover

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Time said it was publishing a special issue of the magazine with a red "X" over Osama bin Laden's face, something it did previously with Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein.


Wiki cables: Pak security always tipped off Osama

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As the first euphoria about the death of the world's most-dreaded terrorist ebbs, the focus is fast shifting to Pakistan, the country where Osama bin Laden was found and killed. There are contrary claims on whether Pakistan was informed by the US about the operation and questions are also being raised on how much people in Pakistan knew of Osama's whereabouts.


Meet Navy SEAL 6: The team that got Osama

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Osama bin Laden's death in a ripped-from-a-spy-thriller helicopter raid and firefight gives a storied unit of U.S. special operations forces bragging rights for what has become the most famous covert operation since the Sept. 11 attacks launched on bin Laden's orders.


Clues that gradually led to the location of Osama

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Osama bin Laden dead: For years, the agonizing search for Osama bin Laden kept coming up empty. Then last July, Pakistanis working for the Central Intelligence Agency drove up behind a white Suzuki navigating the bustling streets near Peshawar, Pakistan, and wrote down the car's license plate.


The DNA match that confirmed it was Osama

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While federal officials said that analysis of DNA from several relatives helped confirm that it was Osama bin Laden who was killed in the military raid on Sunday, they have not yet disclosed the relationships of the family members whose DNA was used.


US suspends visa operations from Pakistan

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The United States has indefinitely suspended visa operations from Pakistan.


How Obama and co watched the raid on Osama

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From halfway around the world, President Barack Obama and his national security team monitored the strike on Osama bin Laden's compound in real time, watching and listening to the firefight that killed the terrorist leader.


Obama going to New York to mark Osama bin Laden's death

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President Barack Obama plans to visit New York City on Thursday to mark the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.


Osama bin Laden hid behind his wife during US forces raid: White House

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Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who ordered several terror attacks, used a woman, believed to his wife, as a shield when US special forces raided the one million dollar house in Pakistan's Abbottabad where he was hiding, the White House has said.


Hundreds join rally in Pak to honour Osama bin Laden

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Hundreds took to the streets of Quetta today to pay homage to Osama bin Laden, chanting 'death to America' and setting fire to a US flag. Angry participants belonging to a religious party in Quetta, the capital of southwestern province Baluchistan, were led by federal lawmaker Maulawi Asmatullah.


US used 'multiple methods' to identify Osama's body

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The U.S. used multiple means to confirm the identity of Osama bin Laden during and after the firefight in which he was killed, before placing his body in the North Arabian Sea from aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier, senior U.S. officials said Monday.


Inconceivable Osama didn't have support system in Pakistan: US

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US counter terrorism chief John Brennan did not rule out the possibility of the terrorist having official backing. "It is inconceivable that bin Laden did not have support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for extended period of time," Brennan told reporters at a news conference at the White House.


Hafiz Saeed prays for Osama

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Osama bin Laden dead: Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) activists led by their chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed offered funeral prayers in absentia at the group's headquarters in Lahore today for Osama bin Laden, killed by US forces in an operation in northwest Pakistan.


Islamic scholars criticize bin Laden's sea burial

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Osama bin Laden dead: Muslim clerics said on Monday that Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets.


'Good day for America', says Obama

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Osama bin Laden dead: Calling it a "good day for America," President Obama said Monday that the death of Osama bin Laden had made the world "a better place," as new details emerged about the daring overnight raid in Pakistan that killed him.


The man who will take over from Osama

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Osama bin Laden dead: FBI's list of most wanted terrorists got shorter with the slaying of its most prominent face, Osama bin Laden, and now has only nine names from the original 22 compiled after the 9/11 attacks.


Assassination, says Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood

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Osama bin Laden dead: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative organisation with links around the Islamic world, has condemned the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces as an "assassination."


Gaddafi shells Misrata amid chemical weapons fears

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Moammar Gaddafi's forces used tanks to shell the besieged western town of Misrata on Monday, as rumours fuelled fears that the Libyan leader was preparing to use chemical weapons.


In Arab world, confused Osama legacy

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Osama bin Laden dead: The words were not uncommon in angry Arab capitals a decade ago: Osama bin Laden was hero, sheikh, even leader to some.


Taliban threaten US, Pakistan over bin Laden

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Osama bin Laden dead: Pakistan's main Taliban faction today threatened to attack Pakistan and the United States after the US confirmed that Osama bin Laden had been killed near the Pakistani capital.


Pakistan: Bomb blast kills four persons

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Four persons were killed and 11 others injured when a bomb blast hit a police station and a mosque in northwest Pakistan, hours after US special forces killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden near the garrison city of Abbottabad.


US has violated our sovereignty: Musharraf

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Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf said on Monday he was surprised Osama bin Laden was in Abbottabad, just a short distance from capital Islamabad. He also termed the US strike against the Al Qaeda leader a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty.


Osama's two wives, four children in custody

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Osama bin Laden dead: Two wives and four children of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden have been taken into custody after he was killed by US special force's commandos in Abbottabad in Pakistan. Two women and four children, described as bin Laden's wives and offspring, were taken away from the compound, local media reports said.


Osama's son, woman used as human shield killed too

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Osama bin Laden dead: US officials have said a son of Osama bin Laden, three other adult males and a woman used as a human shield by a male combatant were also killed in the helicopter raids by US forces that killed the world's most wanted terrorist on Monday.


Did ISI know exactly where Osama was hiding?

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The killing of Osama bin Laden deep inside Pakistan in an American operation, almost in plain sight in a medium-sized city that hosts numerous Pakistani forces, seems certain to further inflame tensions between the United States and Pakistan and raise significant questions about whether elements of the Pakistani spy agency knew the whereabouts of the leader of Al Qaeda.


US adds security at airports, World Trade Centre site

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Osama bin Laden dead: Some local law enforcement agencies in the US are adding security measures following Osama bin Laden's death, out of what one called "an abundance of caution." In Los Angeles, police say they're stepping up intelligence monitoring, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says it will add more police Monday at airports, bridges and the World Trade Centre site itself.


Osama was just 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy

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Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was hiding in a massive compound, worth a million US dollars, located just 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy near Abbottabad city, in the country's northwest when he was killed in a pre-dawn raid by US special forces today.


Japan's parliament passes tsunami recovery budget

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Japan's parliament passed a 4 trillion yen ($48 billion) tsunami recovery budget Monday, but it will cover only a fraction of the cost of what was the most expensive disaster ever.


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