bin Laden

WHEN he gave interviews to foreign journalists, which he did rarely, Osama bin Laden had a way of looking down at his hands.

'When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like a strong horse, ' bin Laden said in the video.

Even if it does, that should not obscure the fact that Mr bin Laden's infamy in the West is losing its power to inspire his own people.

Bin Laden, though the most wanted man in the world, had been living in the heart of Pakistan, in security as well as comfort.

Some of the videos indicate problems with production value. Bin Laden misses a cue in one and another shows him with a wrinkled backdrop.

Bin Laden and his courier, Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed, were discovered by U. S. intelligence through a chance interception of an Ahmed phone call.

Bin Laden was one of the several people suspected of being involved. 1996, Usama Bin Laden declared a jihad, a holy war against US forces.

Pakistan seems to have helped the United States track down bin Laden's lair, as Obama acknowledged.

A U. S. counterterrorism official told me that there was "no succession plan in place" to replace bin Laden.

The intelligence professionals said they did not know for sure that bin Laden was in the compound.

There was no way to confirm the voice was actually that of bin Laden, but it resembled previous recordings attributed to him.

Officials said the U. S. decided to release the five video clips to show the world that it had killed bin Laden.

Now two submarines were in the northern Arabian Sea, ready to fire missiles at any point the CIA determined to be bin Laden's whereabouts.

Bin Laden was a greater threat to Pakistan than to America in recent years, yet Pakistanis behave as if they regret his death.

They said that the U. S. video and eyes and ears of Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden different from the previous photo.

He said the bin Laden children known to remain in the compound were sons Mohammed, Hamza, Othman and Bakr and daughter Fatima.

They did not know if Bin Laden himself had acquired the material, or viewed it.

They were in tune with one another, she was writing books in praise of Osama bin Laden.

While 'a chapter has ended' for al Qaeda with Mr. bin Laden's death, he said, the story is far from over.

The fact of the matter is you will not see bin Laden walking on this earth again.

Mr bin Laden would no doubt like to control another state (as he once did from Afghanistan).

He said the decision to kill bin Laden was made on the ground, by members of the assault team.

The White House has said Osama Bin Laden was not armed when he was killed by US forces, but he resisted the attempt to capture him alive.

What if I said I could capture that elusive terrorist, Bin Laden?

"By keeping their contacts with [Osama] bin Laden they won't be coming to any negotiations with a positive attitude" , he said.

'It got to the point that bin Laden would be the only reason to go in, ' the senior official said.

They found that the last bin Laden is a bad life, like the American TV series, unlike the days of terror over tycoon.

It remains unclear how much, if at all, Pakistan's rulers co-operated in the successful hunt for Mr bin Laden.

But if it does turn out to be bin Laden, that by itself will not give the answer to the question: "How much force in reply? "

If nothing else, bin Laden's death should offer a good reminder of how much India and Pakistan still need each other.

He said only that she was injured in the crossfire, but U. S. officials have said a woman was shot in the leg trying to protect bin Laden.

Bin Laden's nickname among some CIA hunters is "Elvis" because there have been so many false sightings of him.

The veteran militant was one of the organisation's most active commanders and was viewed as a possible replacement for Bin Laden.

So bin Laden's group became just as much a hostage to its leader's flawed strategic vision as the Nazis were to Hitler's.

The vast majority has no more use for Awlaki than for Bin Laden, and is generally glad to be rid of them.

He said that, as far as he knew, bin Laden had ventured outside the Middle East as a young man only three times.

In Iraq, a man believed to be a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden has released an audiocassette in which he reportedly mocks President Bush.

This book has such a contemporary ring that you expect to come upon a description of Osama bin Laden living in a safe-house in Abbottabad.

Llamazares said he has " no similarity, physically or ideologically " to bin Laden .

When we met later, Athar said he "never imagined it would be bin Laden, at the bottom of it all. "

THE moment that Barack Obama knew for sure that Osama bin Laden was dead, he made two telephone calls.

Mr. Hayden said the war against Al Qaeda was far from over, the hunt for its leader Osama bin Laden remained the top priority of the CIA.

The CIA learned, too, that there was a family living with them and that this family matched the profile of Bin Laden's.

Meanwhile, Pakistani authorities say that for the moment it is too early to say what will happen to the property where bin Laden was killed.

'There is no doubt' that bin Laden was killed, Obama said, according to Carney's account of the interview.

US officials had been discussing whether to publish pictures of Bin Laden's body to counter conspiracy theories that he did not die.

How much time would have to pass before Carlyle would consider letting the bin Laden family back into its fold?

"It would have been better if bin Laden had been captured alive and forced to answer for his deeds in a court of law, " Mr Rosenthal said.

"Now is the moment, following what happened with bin Laden, to put maximum pressure on them, " he said.

She said bin Laden was still involved in the construction business and with Afghan charities.

"What bin Laden ends up doing is saying anyone who disagrees with him, any Muslim, is in fact an apostate, " he said.

He gave no new specifics about what he did know of Bin Laden's time here in Abbottabad, only saying an investigation would be launched.

In addressing the scourge of the Osama bin Laden, the U. S. seems to use a speech after the end of the low-key.

Some say that al-Qaeda will struggle without bin Laden, even though they agree that he was more of a symbolic than a strategic leader.

'To be honest, I've never been convinced that there was such a person as Osama bin Laden, ' said Osama al-Obeid, a Saudi banker.

A woman in the compound who was identified as his wife was said to have called out bin Laden's name in the melee.

Some witnesses who were chatty a few hours after Mr bin Laden was killed seem to be clamming up.

He said he would no longer feel safe traveling to the United States after his hair and facial wrinkles appeared on the bin Laden image.

In Washington, a US counterterrorism official said the voice on the audio tape appeared to be bin Laden's.

How much of the trouble is due to the chain of events bin Laden unleashed with the September 11 attacks?

Osama bin Laden mansion in the United States had found a large number of documents and information, like "small college library. "

"On the first floor of Bin Laden's building two al-Qaida couriers were killed, along with a woman who was killed in crossfire, " he said.

He said it was wrong to think, however, that Pakistan was punishing and detaining the people that led the United States to bin Laden.

That group eventually provided the nucleus of al-Qaeda, which bin Laden founded in 1988 as the war against the Soviets began to wind down.

In his suicide video Ali says that warnings from the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to the west to leave Muslims alone had been ignored.

It also claims it has evidence that al-Qaeda is all but broke, with only Bin Laden's personal moneys financing the organisation.

No doubt Taliban and its leader Mullah Omar will be morphed by the US media machine into a bin Laden stand-ins.

American officials said immediately after the raid that Osama bin Laden had been armed; they later said he was not armed.

The mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was found and killed is at least six times the size of the typical house near it.

Amid all the threats, MPs did not bother to ask questions about bin Laden.

CIA specialists compared photos of the body to known photos of bin Laden and were able to determine with 95% certainty it was him.

On Monday, White House officials said the woman was killed in the firefight after Bin Laden used her as a human shield.

The only thing he says is that bin Laden was a coward, when he hears reports that bin Laden hid behind a woman as a shield.

They should have captured Bin Laden alive and made him continually go through airport security for the rest of his life.

He said such videos and documents would not likely be in the possession of anyone other than bin Laden himself.

One of the key strategists of 'leaderless jihad' who did not like or agree with bin Laden.

In his speech, Mr Obama said he had asked Leon Panetta, the CIA director, to make finding and killing Mr Bin Laden a priority.

Even so, it's almost inevitable that the bin Laden mythology will not end with the bullet in his head.

The complex is being constructed by the Bin Laden Group, a giant real estate firm, on behalf of the Saudi government, he said.

Police in northern Pakistan say they have arrested an American who said he was on a solo mission to kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

There is no doubt that Osama bin Laden had to answer for the ideology he espoused and the death and destruction he reveled in.

Bin Laden was always something of a mystery to the Chinese.

It showed another house besides bin Laden's clearly in the blast radius and estimated that up to a dozen civilians could be killed.

After a week he decided not to shave until Osama bin Laden had been caught or killed.

Bin Laden was believed to be about six feet four but no one had a tape measure to confirm the body's length.

Most of the missiles hit the targets, but bin Laden was not in the camp where the CIA thought he would be when the missiles hit it.

If one of bin Laden's goals was to disrupt or destroy U. S. businesses, he had the opposite effect in this segment of the economy.

When Osama bin Laden was captured and killed, it was the carrier USS Carl Vinson that carried out his burial at sea.

Bin Laden wanted to shock the US into overreaction, so as to divide it internally and from the rest of the world, runs this point of view.

Bin Laden has never been found and is believed to still be hiding in the mountainous border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Al-Qaida confirmed bin Laden's death in an Internet statement Friday and warned that it would seek revenge by attacking the United States.

The official also said the DNA evidence unquestionably shows that the person shot and killed in the Pakistan compound was bin Laden.

They told him there was a high-value target at the compound, and most likely it was bin Laden.

After a week he decided not to shave until Bin Laden had been caught or killed.

At least one bullet fired by the U. S. strike team hit bin Laden in the head.

Liberal groups like the Brave New Foundation are already saying that Bin Laden's death has "ended the rationale" for the war.

None of the women confirmed that the man was bin Laden though one of them kept referring to him as "the sheikh. "

But that's not the only time that Malik shot his mouth off about bin Laden.

I cannot be sure that my sources are telling me the truth. Nor can anyone be sure that all the rumors of Bin Laden's death were true.

The daring raid that the president ordered delivered Osama bin Laden to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Nine and a half years from the day, we united for a moment to celebrate the end of Osama bin Laden, the decade's dark monster.

Osama bin Laden has no interest in deterrence or other forms of deadly bargaining.

The body of Bin Laden should have been handed over to his family to look for a country to bury him.

The U. S. government said it also has photos of bin Laden's body being buried at sea, as well as photos of his body taken after the raid.

'We have no indications that the Pakistanis were aware that Osama bin Laden was at the compound, ' a senior intelligence official said.

Bin Laden was said to have married four times, the last time to a young Yemeni girl, and he had perhaps a dozen children.

The Saudi Bin Laden Group (SBG), whose offer was the most attractive in terms of price, quality and schedule, was chosen for the project.

In the late 1990s, for propaganda purposes, Bin Laden invited select journalists to meet him in caves near Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan.

Like a smart chief executive, Mr bin Laden's greatest achievement is to have built something that no longer needed him.

So far, Pakistan has not charged bin Laden's three widows of any crime.

It was a tremendous loss, he said, coming so soon after the death of Osama Bin Laden.

But even a man who may have come painfully close to killing Bin Laden feels the need to look cool for a teenage child.

Even when bin Laden told them that he was "subject at any moment to death, " Amal al-Sada cut him short. "I've made my decision, " she said.

The strikes began shortly after an offer from the Taliban to put Osama bin Laden on trial in Afghanistan was rejected by the United States.

Certainly, bin Laden saw himself as a messiah, the savior, of his own Muslim people, and perhaps, of humanity.

Afghanistan. Are we, at the moment, striking back? And if so, is the target Osama bin Laden and his organization?

According to the uncle, bin Laden said he was the focus of several "assassination" attempts by Arab and U.

Mr. bin Laden was able to elude capture by hiding out in the mountains of Afghanistan and elsewhere.

U. S. airstrikes targeting Osama bin Laden's Tora Bora mountain bases marked the beginning of a decade of war in Afghanistan.

The Americans collected Bin Laden's body and loaded it onto one of the remaining helicopters, and the assault force hastily left the scene.

There are rumors, however, that the U. S. asked Saudi Arabia to take the body (bin Laden was born there), but it allegedly refused.

If there were officials who knew where bin Laden was, I can assure you that he would not be a free man.

Obama said he authorized the mission to make a move on bin Laden last week after several months of planning.

Bin Laden's death provided the White House with the symbolic victory it needed to begin phasing troops out of Afghanistan.

As Brennan knew bin Laden's relatives were still a prominent family in the Kingdom and Osama had once been a Saudi citizen.

The US has not commented on anyone it captured or had planned to capture, other than saying it had taken Bin Laden's body.

Senior U. S. officials said the need to get a positive identification on bin Laden became the deciding factor.

He said U. S. forces killed bin Laden after a firefight and took custody of his body.

In the interview, Obama said he had seen postmortem photos of bin Laden himself and described them as 'very graphic. '

Later, Bin Laden tried to send a female terrorist to blow up Hainan Island , but she was cheated into prostitution!

The White House worked to provide an accurate timeline of the events, and corrected information about the fate of one of bin Laden's wives.

PHOTOGRAPHS of Osama bin Laden visiting Oxford in 1971 have come to light after a Spanish woman found them in an old picture album.

News of Osama bin Laden's death seemed to have struck a chord with younger folks who grew up during the war on terrorism.

At least one bullet fired by the U. S. strike team struck bin Laden in the left eye.

Bin Laden was forced to leave any cash he had when he in effect fled Saudi Arabia in 1991 for Pakistan and then Sudan.

The president's visit comes just 24 hours after announcing he would not release the photos of Osama Bin Laden after he was killed.

Gates said he couldn't confirm recent reports that bin Laden had been seen recently in Afghanistan.

Osama bin Laden issues a fierce denunciation of the U. S. from his Saudi prison cell.

That seems unlikely: Returning to the Afghan war zone would have been foolhardy, and bin Laden has proved to be a cautious man.

The most recent milestone in the war was the killing of bin Laden in a nighttime raid by special forces within Pakistan.

Among the key questions raised so far include: How will al-Qaeda re-group and who will likely be the successor to Bin Laden?

The center released a group of 17 documents totaling 175 pages, which had been uncovered by US forces in bin Laden's Abbottabad compound.

"A slash of assistance is not on the cards, unless there is another big surprise [like bin Laden's whereabouts], " said the US official.

President Barack Obama said he was first briefed on a possible lead on bin Laden's whereabouts in August.

Bin Laden will continue to be a distraction for the short term, and especially if some of al-Qaeda groups muster revenge attacks.

Police say the man was trying to cross into Afghanistan's Nuristan region because he told them that bin Laden was hiding there.

In the end, we were able to track bin Laden because he communicated only through two couriers believed to be brothers.

Although Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda is no secret of their 9. 11 culprits, the U. S. government has also carried out a firm blow.

One of bin Laden's most famous quotations (there were not many in his oeuvre) compared the United States and Al Qaeda to racing horses.

A Long Time Going Osama bin Laden long fancied himself something of a poet.

Republican spots feature the sound of a ticking bomb and a quote from Osama bin Laden about every Muslim's sacred duty to kill Americans.

It also raised the question of whether Mr. Bin Laden's whereabouts were known to Pakistan's spy agency.

Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was unarmed when he was killed by US troops on Sunday after resisting capture, the White House has said.

Like many other Westerners there, I longed to glimpse Osama bin Laden loping out of a cedar forest, into the sunlight.

In a clearing near the ruins of bin Laden's Tora Bora house, I punch a few buttons on the GPS, broadening the map on my screen.

Bin Laden said the five French people were kidnapped in Niger last month, is France's response to anti-Muslim acts.

Two women were in front of bin Laden, yelling and trying to protect him, two officials said.

And needless to say, no government or charitable foundation was going to pour any money into a shrine for bin Laden.

I think, however, that the killing of Bin Laden will motivate extremists to carry out a variety of dastardly deeds.

They said there was 'a strong probability' it was bin Laden.

Meanwhile, the White House is still hesitating over whether to release a photograph of Osama Bin Laden's dead body.

Bin Laden sent his family to Iran, so it makes sense that he might have gone there himself, Malik argued.

In an audio address released in February, al-Zawahri noted that bin Laden assigned him to advise Mujahideen on Islamic Sharia law.

In an interview with VOA, U. S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter acknowledges that the bin Laden raid was a setback for bilateral ties.

The concern was that Bin Laden would oppose any type of capture operation. Indeed he did.

God have mercy on Osama bin Laden. . . He did everything he thought he could to serve the Muslim cause.

But SITE said it did not expect al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden or deputy Ayman al-Zawahri to openly favor a candidate.

The as-yet-untitled film will center on the pursuit of bin Laden by special forces, said the unnamed source.

The SEAL behind him opened fire at bin Laden, putting one bullet in his chest, and one in his head.

While the voice on the recording appeared to resemble bin Laden, the audiotape has yet to be authenticated by Western intelligence.

The key to understanding this vision and all of bin Laden's actions was his utter conviction that he was an instrument of God's will.

"Bin Laden" , he said, "is the illegitimate child of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. "

Two of bin Laden's wives had placed themselves in front of him.

He also admitted that he was once Osama bin Laden's bodyguards, the U. S. military to help him escape arrest.

For all his leadership skills and charisma, however, bin Laden has accomplished the opposite of what he intended.

Abbottabad, a hillside town in northwest Pakistan was home to Osama bin Laden for at least 5 years before he was killed.

The two organisations provide some military support to one another and many Taliban fighters express admiration for Osama bin Laden.

Knowledge of the limits imposed on US interrogators would be "very useful" to the followers of Osama bin Laden.

Mr Panetta has said Islamabad was deliberately not told of the raid out of fear bin Laden would be tipped off.

Pakistanis fumed about America's incursion into their territory and its insinuation that they knew where bin Laden had been hiding.

President Obama who announced the death of Osama Bin Laden earlier in the day said the world was now a better place.

U. S. officials say bin Laden's body was the only one removed from the scene.

There were 4 people: An American Congress man, George Bush, Osama Bin Laden and An American solider and they were all in a helicopter.

A woman . . . bin Laden's wife, rushed the U. S. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed.

With bin Laden gone, Mr Obama has a chance at least to bring it to a close.

The presence of U. S. troops in the land of Islam's holiest shrines infuriated bin Laden and led him to start plotting attacks.

The President has made the decision not to release any of the photographs of the photographs that deceased Osama bin Laden.

But that does not mean it was not a mistake of judgment to go there and take the focus off of Osama bin Laden.

The White House says the new audio type supposedly from Osama Bin Laden is a sign of his isolation.

Yu said the death of bin Laden is a "big achievement for the Obama administration and will help boost his popularity domestically. "

Bin Laden is believed to be in hiding in Pakistan, along the remote mountainous terrain border with Afghanistan.

Saudi Arabia had rejected bin Laden's offer of mujahedeen help and subsequently kicked him out of the country for his radical views.

Bin Laden appears to have been an intense, shy and pious youth who married young and spent an inordinate amount of time studying scripture.

The statement also said the US decision to bury Bin Laden's corpse at sea had deprived the family of performing religious rites.

Counter-terrorism experts had said, what was called "Osama bin Laden brain" is number two on the greatest threat to U. S. national security.

Meanwhile, it is hoped that the Pakistani army will somehow flush Bin Laden out in ground operations with the help of US intelligence.

Bush says U. S. troops are keeping the pressure on bin Laden, keeping him in hiding.

IntelCenter, another company that monitors terrorist propaganda, said the video showed a still picture of Bin Laden while the audio played.

"They were engaged in a firefight throughout the operation, and Osama bin Laden was killed by the assaulting force, " he added.

It is not just Osama bin Laden who has been holed up in remote exile. His ideology of global jihad has also retreated.

The body itself, U. S. officials say, was buried at sea after bin Laden's identity was confirmed through a DNA test.

US officials say they used DNA testing to confirm that the body is that of Bin Laden.

The general consensus that Bin Laden is hiding along the highland border is in part based on logic and personal history.

Pakistani intelligence official said Bin Laden's daughter had claimed that her father had been shot in cold blood in front of her.

Sunday, a US military operation involving Navy Seals assaulted the compound, this mansion where Bin Laden was hiding out in Pakistan.

Particularly since the embassy bombings in 1998, I had been focused intently on bin Laden and his al Qaeda supporters.

"[Osama bin Laden] Does not support al Qaeda through a personal fortune or a network of businesses, " the Commission wrote in its report.

Once again, bin Laden had vanished, but this time at the hands of the United States and in a way that ensures he is gone forever.

A surgeon by profession, al-Zawahri, like bin Laden, gave up a life of privilege to violently promote a puritanical Islamic ideal.

China sees Osama bin Laden's death as a *milestone and a positive development in combating international terrorism.

Osama bin Laden was certainly killed once or twice by wishful thinkers before it eventually happened (if it did, which some still deny).

Mohammed bin Laden was a construction tycoon in Saudi Arabia and a part of the country's elite.

"Bin laden may have been a unique case, " says Leiter.

He said that a military operation to eradicate bin Laden and Omar should not come at the sacrifice of Afghan civilians.

'There's no doubt he was protected by some in the ISI, ' the European official said of bin Laden.

Given all this, it is astonishing that it took a decade to track down bin Laden.

Union as the "evil empire, " but bin Laden came to see America as evil too. He did.

Pakistan did not disclose the location and the bin Laden family detention of children his age.

Mr. Bin Laden focused entirely on Pakistan, claiming President Asif Ali Zardari was paid by the White House to start the crackdown.

Bin Laden also saw them, dimly outlined in the dark house, and ducked into his room.

Some Pakistanis are shocked and angry over the U. S. commando attack that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

Some U. S. officials cautioned that other materials in the trove showed bin Laden was often ignored by his underlings.

It seems inconceivable that parts of the Pakistani establishment were unaware that Osama bin Laden was living in their midst.

When bin Laden returned to Jedda, he told people that the experience was like "being in a show. "

They say whether or not American forces met international human rights standards when they killed Osama bin Laden depends on the facts.

Anecdotally, we can demonstrate that if poverty was the only factor, well Bin Laden is from one of the richest families in Saudi Arabia.

President Obama walks through the White House to make a televised statement that Osama Bin Laden has been killed.

But the interrogation policies of this administration, I think, would be unlikely to produce much intelligence from Osama bin Laden.

An audio message about the Arab uprising recorded by Bin Laden a week before his death is promised soon.

The death of bin Laden gives President Barack Obama the cover he needs to start quietly unwinding some of these mistakes.

Indeed, bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan as well, and ordered attacks against the Pakistani people.

A week ago by members of U. S. special forces killed the "base" -Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden 8 "is the sound again, " the network.

We were initially told that bin Laden died using his wife as a human shield and that he was armed, neither of which was true.

Osama bin Laden's death is one of those catalytic moments that seize mass attention, as people sense a turning point of some kind.

They spent the next two and a half weeks considering ways to get inside bin Laden's house.

Another model shows an old and frail bin Laden wrapped in a blanket and watching TV at his compound in Pakistan.

U. S. forces took bin Laden's body out of that compound in Pakistan.

" And Osama bin Laden declared: " Death is better than living on this Earth with the unbelievers among us.

One of the released video files, apparently shot during an unguarded moment, shows a gray-bearded bin Laden watching television.

The United States should seize upon the death of bin Laden to promote urgent peace negotiations with the Taliban leadership.

Now, if I was a mid- or a high- level insurgent, I would be aware that they just nailed bin Laden.

Bin Laden was the face of terrorism and his death draws a line under an era of fear he inspired.

But in Pakistan there was dispute over the apparent assessment of bin Laden's hideout as the nerve centre of al-Qaeda.

While in hiding, bin Laden had taunted the West and advocated his views in videotapes spirited from his hideaway.

US officials said tests using DNA from several of Bin Laden's family members had provided "virtual certainty" that it was his body.

All in all, this was not a good month for Osama bin Laden, wherever he is.

In February 2011 it was determined that there was "sound intelligence" that Bin Laden was living in Abbottabad with several family members.

The concern was that Bin Laden would oppose any type of capture operation.

A woman photographs her daughter at a gate of the compound whereOsama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

The name is thought to be an alias for bin Laden's trusted courier.