WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials believe Osama bin Laden made a propaganda recording shortly before his death and expect that tape to surface soon. It is unclear whether the tape is audio or video, but a U.S. official says that intelligence indicates it is already working its way through al-Qaida’s media pipeline. The official [...]
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) – Osama bin Laden made his final stand in a small Pakistani city where three army regiments with thousands of soldiers are based not far from the capital — a location that is increasing suspicions in Washington that Islamabad may have been sheltering him. The U.S. acted alone in Monday’s helicopter raid, [...]
Bret Baier reported the above at 3:18 PM on his daily show today. The fog of war, ladies and gentlemen, he may be right, he may be wrong, but that’s the latest MSM update. Developing…
Reporting from Washington— After landing by helicopter at the Pakistani compound housing Osama bin Laden on Sunday, the U.S. special operations team tasked with capturing or killing the Al Qaeda leader found itself in an almost continuous gun battle. For the next 40 minutes, the team cleared the two buildings within the fortified compound in [...]
Soldiers and residents stand over covered debris as it is moved out by military vehicles from the compound within which al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed New York Times: Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda and the most hunted man in the world, was found not in the remote tribal areas along [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington— The operation that killed Osama bin Laden was led by the CIA, although most of those conducting the raid were military special operations troops, a U.S. official said today. CIA Director Leon Panetta gave the go-order about midday Sunday, after President Obama had signed off on it. Panetta and [...]
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ABC News: President Obama heralded Osama bin Laden’s death as a major milestone in the war against al Qaeda, and “justice” for families of the nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Obama said the operation carried out Sunday afternoon in northwest Pakistan resulted from “years of painstaking work” by intelligence agencies that yielded [...]
Without knowing what he was doing, Sohaib Athar, a.k.a. @ReallyVirtual, has more or less just live-tweeted the raid in which terrorist Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday. The IT consultant resides in Abbottabad, the town where bin Laden was found and killed by a U.S. military operation. Athar first posted about events surrounding the raid [...]