| Latest News | May 4, 2011 | ||||
|
US Revises Description of bin Laden Killing
U.S. officials on Tuesday revised their description of the circumstances surrounding the killing of al-Qaida terror leader Osama bin Laden, as more details became available. As The new narrative says bin Laden resisted U.S. forces and was unarmed. ...
CIA Working on 'Robust' Trove of Material from bin Laden Compound
When American commandos left the compound where Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, they took what a senior U.S. intelligence official calls 'a robust collection of materials' that is expected to yield a trove of information about the al-Qaida terrorist network. ...
Pakistan Criticizes US Raid, Defends Record on Terrorism
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday sharply criticized the U.S. operation that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. ...
Featured Free Resource
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney
On orders of the President, a small U.S. team assaulted a secure compound in an affluent suburb of Islamabad to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. The raid was conducted with U.S. military personnel assaulting on two helicopters. The team methodically cleared the compound, moving from room to room in an operation lasting nearly 40 minutes. They were engaged in a firefight throughout the operation, and Osama bin Laden was killed by the assaulting force. ...
Osama Is Dead, But His War Continues
Osama bin Laden is dead. The man responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents, and who struck fear into the hearts of millions of others, is no more. ...
U.S. Afghan Mission Under Scrutiny After Bin Laden's Death
In the hours after U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed, the talk among both pundits and people on the street had two geographic reference points: The United States, which had just accomplished an historic victory, and Pakistan, where the terrorist leader was hiding in nearly plain sight. ...
Featured Free Resource
Last year's surge of U.S. and coalition forces into Afghanistan, with the simultaneous growth of Afghan forces, is leading to tangible progress for peace and prosperity in Afghanistan, according to a biannual Defense Department report released last week. ... Read more... �� Forces Kill, Detain Insurgents in Baghlan Province Combined forces killed several Taliban fighters and detained numerous other suspected insurgents in an operation yesterday in the Dahanah-ye Ghori district of Afghanistan's Baghlan province, military officials reported. ... Read more... �� | |||||
