TagsTagsMichele Bachmann and Ron Paul are complaining that CBS News deliberately snubbed them during last night's debate: The Bachmann campaign went so far as to release an email that they said spokeswoman Alice Stewart had “inadvertently received” from CBS earlier in the day. In the email string, CBS News’ political analyst ...
Republican Party, Debate, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Pakistan
Tonight we learn that Pakistan's military is arresting informants who cooperated with the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden. At a closed briefing last week, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee asked Michael J. Morell, the deputy C.I.A. director, to rate Pakistan’s cooperation with the United States on counterterrorism ...
Osama bin Laden (or somebody in his compound) apparently liked to get his freak on: Pornography found in bin Laden hideout. The pornography recovered in bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the discovery with ...
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Was Osama bin Laden's demise plotted at Area 51? Based on Naylor’s reporting, it appears that a handful of special Blackhawks — probably no more than four — indeed originated from the MH-X program, but plans for a large, permanent unit to fly these birds was cancelled “within the last ...
Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Helicopter, Area 51
If you were wondering why the Navy SEAL team reportedly destroyed one of their helicopters when it malfunctioned during the Osama bin Laden operation, this could be the answer: Top Secret Stealth Helicopter Program Revealed in Osama Bin Laden Raid: Experts. Before an elite team of U.S. Navy SEALs executed ...
Saudi Arabia announced today that a top Al Qaeda figure has surrendered. In the wake of Osama bin Laden's demise, is al Qaeda falling apart? The Saudi Interior Ministry said today that a senior al Qaeda member on Riyadh's most-wanted list named Khaled al-Qahtani called from abroad and turned himself in. "Interior ...
As is common in situations like these, some of the early details of the Osama bin Laden operation were inaccurate. The White House has now clarified earlier statements to say that bin Laden was not armed during the shootout. Also, the woman killed during the raid was apparently not bin ...
Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Terrorism, White House, Human Shields
We didn't just kill Osama bin Laden last weekend -- we may have dealt a decisive blow to the Al Qaeda command structure: Osama bin Laden raid yields trove of computer data. The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid ...
Christopher Hitchens writes today that the killing of Osama bin Laden won't mean very much if the United States continues doing business as usual with Pakistan: Osama Bin Laden's legacy: It will depend in part on what Obama does next. There are several pleasant little towns like Abbottabad in Pakistan, ...
When the SEAL team raided his compound and came for Osama bin Laden, a firefight broke out -- and bin Laden, the noble jihad warrior, used one of his wives as a human shield. He lived for years in a glorified hovel, paranoid and completely cut off from the outside world, ...
Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Terrorism, White House, Human Shields
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is in the midst of a briefing -- here's the live video. UPDATE at 5/2/11 11:50:35 am The briefing has concluded, so live video has been removed. (P.S. Note to the White House web developers -- you really need an option to prevent autoplaying of embedded videos.) ...
The Obama administration made the right decision by burying the corpse of Osama bin Laden at sea. No tomb, no grave marker, nothing left to become a shrine for radical Islamists. Just gone. That's how it should be.
ABC News has video from inside the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed. Video
A reminder that in some parts of the world, "theocracy" is not just the fervent desire of fanatics -- it's the dominant paradigm: Pakistanis Rally in Support of Blasphemy Law. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A crippling strike by Islamist parties brought Pakistan to a standstill on Friday as thousands of people ...
Osama bin Laden (or an incredible facsimile) has issued a new statement calling for government projects to save people from floods like the ones in Pakistan. He didn't add, "Or we'll kill you," because that's a given. The top al-Qaida leader said a new "well-funded" relief organization should be created ...
Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Humanitarian, Terrorist, Humanitarian Terrorist
This illustration released by the Department of Justice shows the layout of the explosives inside the Nissan Pathfinder driven by suspect Faisal Shahzad:
New York, Times Square, Car Bomb, Terrorism, Crime, Pakistan
A press conference is now under way at the Department of Justice; Attorney General Eric Holder has confirmed that Faisal Shahzad admitted his involvement in the Times Square car bomb attempt.
New York, Times Square, Car Bomb, Terrorism, Crime, Pakistan, Eric Holder
Rep. Peter King gets today’s prize, as he blithely advocates violating the rights of an American citizen. “I hope that [Attorney General Eric] Holder did discuss this with the intelligence community. If they believe they got enough from him, how much more should they get? Did they Mirandize him? I ...
Peter King, Pakistan, Crime, Terrorism, Car Bomb, Times Square, New York
The news is just coming out that a Pakistani man has been arrested at JFK International Airport in connection with the Times Square car bomb attack. NEW YORK – A suspect in last weekend’s failed car bomb attack on Times Square was taken into custody late Monday while trying to ...
New York, Times Square, Car Bomb, Terrorism, Crime, Pakistan
The Pakistani Taliban launched a suicide attack against the US Consulate in the city of Peshawar today, exploding a car bomb and then attempting to enter the building with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. Eight people were killed, including three Taliban terrorists, but the attackers failed to gain entry ...
Pakistani officials did arrest an Al Qaeda operative who might be American, but it now looks like it wasn’t Adam Gadahn. American and Pakistani officials said the man arrested was Abu Yahya Mujahdeen al-Adam, who was described as having been born in Pennsylvania and who was thought to be affiliated ...