MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) – US drones fired a salvo of missiles into a compound in Pakistan’s tribal district of North Waziristan on Friday, killing eight suspected militants including Al-Qaeda members, officials said. The attack came just four days after US Special Forces commandos shot dead Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the garrison city of [...]
GENEVA (AP) – The U.N.’s independent investigator on extrajudicial killings has called on the United States to reveal more details of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideaway to allow experts to assess the legality of his killing. South African law professor Christof Heyns said in a statement Friday that Washington “should disclose the [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — After reviewing computer files and documents seized at the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, American intelligence analysts have concluded that the chief of Al Qaeda played a direct role for years in plotting terror attacks from his hide-out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, United States officials said Thursday. The C.I.A. [...]
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The Guardian: Close allies of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers
World Net Daily: WASHINGTON – Herman Cain, who barely ranked in public-opinion polls among the Republican presidential challengers before tonight’s televised debate in South Carolina, wowed a focus group of likely GOP voters assembled by pollster Frank Luntz. Even Luntz said the reaction of the group was unprecedented in its unanimity – Cain won. “In [...]
BATH, Maine – Engaged in a frenzied firefight and outnumbered by the Taliban, Navy Lt. Michael Murphy made a desperate decision as he and three fellow SEALs fought for their lives on a rocky mountainside in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province in 2005. In a last-ditch effort to save his team, Murphy pulled out his satellite phone, [...]
Fox News: WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda was plotting an attack on U.S. trains on the upcoming anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to some of the first information gleaned from Usama bin Laden’s compound, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News. But the planning was more aspirational than concrete, counterterrorism officials say, adding [...]
Fox News Exclusive: Sources involved in the operation that took down Usama bin Laden told Fox News the terrorist leader acted “scared” and “completely confused” in his final moments, “shoving his wife” at the Navy SEAL who ultimately shot him. The information helps clarify the conflicting details about what exactly happened toward the end of [...]
ABBOTTABAD, PAKISTAN The Pakistani who owned the compound that was Osama bin Laden’s final hideaway meticulously bought up adjoining plots of land over two years and once cryptically told a seller that the property he bought for “an uncle” had become very valuable. The new information that emerged Wednesday provided a new glimpse of one [...]
WSJ WASHINGTON—A set of handwritten notes picked up by the Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden prompted the government to warn of potential al Qaeda threats to the U.S. train network, the first known use of intelligence gleaned from the raid. In an “intelligence message,” the Department of Homeland Security alerted law-enforcement officials that [...]
In case you were trapped in a deprivation chamber or you happened to be visiting family on Mars over the past day or two let me break the news to you, Osama bin Laden is dead—compliments of the U.S. SEAL team 6. To honor the SEALs’ successful mission, animal rights organization and media manipulator extraordinaire [...]
UPDATE: Here’s audio with Hannity on radio. To watch the original video of her earlier tv interview with Martha MacCallum, which I strongly recommend, click here or on the link below: Debra Burlingame, the sister of Charles “Chic” Burlingame (pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon) met with President Obama today, along with [...]
ABC News 10: SAN DIEGO — A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has established another home base across the border in Mexico. “They are recognized by many experts as the ‘A’ team of Muslim terrorist organizations,” a former U.S. intelligence agent told 10News. The former agent, referring to Shi’a Muslim [...]
