Osama Bin Laden
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Americans associate turban-wearers with Osama bin Laden: study
World | Sep 09, 2013, 04:42 PM ISTWashington: Reflecting the low level of awareness about Sikhs in the US, a new research today said an overwhelming majority of Americans associate turban-wearers with slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.The study ‘Turban Myths', conducted
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Pak doctor who helped trace Osama bin Laden to face fresh trial
World | Aug 29, 2013, 06:54 PM ISTIslamabad: The 33-year jail term given to Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA Track Osama Bin Laden, was today overturned by an official who ordered a fresh trial.Frontier Crimes Regulation Commissioner Sahibzada
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Digvijaya Singh should stop respecting Osama: BJP
National | Aug 09, 2013, 08:25 PM ISTPanaji, Aug 9: All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Digvijaya Singh should stop sympathising with terror activities and according respect to slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Goa BJP vice president Wilfred Mesquita
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When Osama was stopped for over-speeding in Pakistan
World | Jul 09, 2013, 08:04 PM ISTIslamabad, Jul 9: The global hunt for Osama bin Laden might have ended eight years earlier had a Pakistani traffic cop spotted the world's most wanted terrorist in a car he had stopped for over-speeding.But
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Osama's son-in-law pleads not guilty in US court
World | Mar 08, 2013, 11:10 PM ISTNew York, Mar 8 : Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden who once served as a spokesman for al-Qaeda, has been captured and brought to the US, where he pleaded not guilty
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US to try Osama bin Laden's son-in-law
World | Mar 08, 2013, 04:28 PM ISTWashington, Mar 8: A New York court will try Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, for "conspiring to kill US citizens", the US Justice Department announced linking him with the 9/11 terrorist attacks.He was
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Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith caught in Jordan, brought to US
World | Mar 08, 2013, 08:09 AM ISTWashington, March 8: Osama bin Laden's spokesman and son-in-law has been captured by the United States, officials said Thursday, in what a senior congressman called a "very significant victory" in the ongoing fight against al-Qaida.Abu
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Pakistanis may not be able to watch film on bin Laden hunt Zero Dark Thirty
World | Jan 27, 2013, 07:13 AM ISTIslamabad, Jan 27: Pakistanis will be unable to watch Zero Dark Thirty in theatres as distributors have decided against importing the film on the hunt for Osama bin Laden due to security concerns and fears
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Slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had to pay Rs 50,000 bribe in Pakistan
World | Dec 26, 2012, 04:01 PM ISTIslamabad, Dec 26: Even the world's most wanted terrorist could not escape the bribery dragnet. Osama bin Laden's safe-house in Pakistan's garrison city Abbottabad was built after paying a bribe of Rs 50,000 to a
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Osama bin Laden was given full Islamic burial: official documents
World | Nov 27, 2012, 09:09 AM ISTWashington, Nov 27: Heavily redacted official US military documents reveal that Osama bin Laden was given a complete Islamic burial after being killed by US forces in a daring raid at his Abbottabad hideout in
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Obama wanted bin Laden taken alive so he could be put on trial in a civilian court
World | Oct 04, 2012, 07:36 PM ISTWashington, Oct 4 : US President Barack Obama hoped Osama bin Laden would be taken alive by US Navy SEALS so that he could face trial in a civilian courtroom, it was claimed on Wednesday.A
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Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye: Zawahiri
World | Sep 28, 2012, 08:37 PM ISTLondon, Sep 28: Slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye after an accident during his youth and was a one-time member of the Muslim Brotherhood, his successor has claimed in
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Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye, reveals al-Zawahiri in latest video
World | Sep 27, 2012, 09:20 AM ISTDubai, Sept 27: Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has said in a latest video posted on a jihadist forum that his predecessor Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye.In the hour-long video, al-Zawahiri, dressed in
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Osama bin Laden was unarmed and dead, when US troops entered his room, reveals book
World | Aug 29, 2012, 06:50 PM ISTWashington, Aug 29: A firsthand blow-by-blow story of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden says the al-Qaeda chief was unarmed and already dead when the US special troops burst into his room in Abbottabad,
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Former Pak IB chief hid Osama in Abbotabad with Musharraf's approval, says ex ISI chief
World | Jul 09, 2012, 10:05 PM ISTSydney, July 9 : The retired chief of Pakistan's ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) Gen Ziauddin Butt has alleged that former Pakistani Intelligence Bureau chief Brigadier Ijaz Shah harboured Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan for years with
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Jordanian TV reporter abducted in the Philippines
World | Jun 21, 2012, 06:48 PM ISTJordan, Jun 21: Jordan says a veteran TV reporter who had interviewed Osama bin Laden months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, has been kidnapped earlier this month in the Philippines.Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Sabah Rafei
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US drone kills four militants in Pakistan
World | Jun 02, 2012, 02:12 PM ISTIslamabad, Jun 2: A US drone targeted a vehicle in the south Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan today, killing four militants in the latest in a string of attacks by the CIA-operated spy planes.The drone
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US concerned over welfare of Pak 'CIA' doctor
World | Jun 02, 2012, 02:05 PM ISTWashington, Jun 2: The US has voiced concern over the welfare of a Pakistani doctor, sentenced to 33 years in prison after he helped the CIA trace Osama bin Laden, saying that he is being
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US not willing to buy Pak's new story on Afridi
World | May 31, 2012, 07:10 AM ISTWashington, May 31 :Seeking a clarification from Pakistan, the US on wednesday said that it did not believe in the “story” that a Pakistani doctor, who helped CIA track Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to
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Pak doctor's prosecution 'unjust and unwarranted',says Clinton
World | May 25, 2012, 06:37 AM ISTWashington, May 25 : The 33-year jail term to a Pakistani doctor who helped CIA in finding Osama bin Laden has created outrage in the US with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling it “unjust