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ABC News Clinton Questions Pakistan's Willingness to Go After Bin Laden In her Toughest Talk Yet, Clinton Asserts That Al Qaeda Has 'Safe Haven' in Pakistan By KIRIT RADIA Oct. 29, 2009— Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dropped the diplomatic language today and said she finds it "hard to believe" that Pakistan couldn't get al Qaeda's leaders "if they really wanted to." Clinton made her sharpest comments during a three day diplomatic offensive in Pakistan, a U.S ally where she has generally praised Pakistan and its military for its willingness to take on the Taliban along its rugged frontier with...

SNIPPET: "According to one of my most trusted sources, the blurry image seen on the tape is indeed Osama bin Laden. One of the reasons that this is convincing is that the blurry image remains in the video. As Sahab, which produces al Qaeda's propaganda, is very selective in the information it releases, and rarely leaves garbage in its videos. As Sahab intentionally leaves in this clip, for reasons unknown. Does al Qaeda want to generate a buzz? Is this a hidden message? Perhaps this is a precursor to a new bin Laden tape?"

Living With Osama bin Laden: First Wife Tells of Husband's Bid To Train His Sons As Suicide Bombers Daily Mail Reporter 12th October 2009 Osama bin Laden was a tyrant who trained his own children to be suicide bombers and murdered their pets, his first wife has revealed. In a new book about her time living with bin Laden, Najwa Ghanem has told how she gave birth to 11 of his 14 children because bin Laden said that Islam needed many warriors. And millionaire bin Laden would not allow any modern appliances in his home, even refusing his son medicine...

FIVE Sydney men have been found guilty of conspiring to plan a terrorist attack using high-powered guns and homemade bombs designed to cause mass death and destruction on Australian soil. A Supreme Court jury took four weeks and three days to find Mohamed Ali Elomar, 44, Abdul Rakib Hasan, 40, Mohammed Omar Jamal, 25, Moustafa Cheikho, 32, and his uncle Khaled Cheikho, 36, guilty of conspiring to do acts in preparation for a terrorist act or acts. The Daily Telegraph reports the men, all from Sydney's south-west, were accused of stockpiling weapons and chemicals for use in the pursuit of...

In its pages, Omar (and his mother) reveal that the Clinton administration failed in a major assassination attempt of Osama bin Laden, just days after the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings. This is something that has often been speculated but never confirmed. Former insiders like Richard Clarke say Omar bin Laden’s account of the assassination failure appears to be credible. And if this is the case, it might explain a little more about what documents Sandy Berger really had stashed away.

BIN LADEN ESCAPES MOON BOMBING! Reacting to internet chatter indicating that mass murderer/terrorist Osama bin Laden was hiding in outer space, the American Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with NASA, last week began bombing the Moon. This followed Homeland Security’s raising of the lunar terror-alert level to “orange.” “Well, a lot of people think bin Laden is in Pakistan, and have even offered us his home phone number, street address, and Facebook page. However, the president felt that, since bombing Pakistan might achieve measurable results, we should expand our search further afield,” said Isa Brownnose, the assistant to the...

DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden demanded that European nations withdraw their troops from Afghanistan in a new audio tape aired on Friday, saying they were sacrificing men and money in an unjust U.S.-led war. "We are not demanding anything unjust. It is just for you to end injustice and withdraw your soldiers (from Afghanistan)," he said in the tape, released on the Internet with a background picture of bin Laden and with German and English subtitles. "One of the greatest injustices is to kill people unjustly, and this is exactly what your governments and soldiers are...

In a 12 minutes address on audio tape, Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, spoke to the American people on the eighth anniversary of 9/11. The tape was produced by the as-Sahab propaganda arm of the terror group and posted on various Jihadists forums last night. His address, directed "to the American People," asserted that the main reason for the Al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, was US support for Israel as well as “some other injustices.” Interestingly Osama claimed the war between the two "nations" i.e. the American nation and the Islamic "Umma,"...

This information was published during the time period when this website was non-functional due to technical (and financial) problems. In June 2008, a Kurdish newspaper published a 2002 Iraqi intelligence document where it discusses a plan to meet with Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command of Al-Qaeda, to discuss a “revenge operation” in Saudi Arabia called for by Saddam Hussein.

What 'Bin Laden' Is Saying About Glenn Beck (Huffington Post cannot be posted)

OSAMA bin Laden? Oh, yeah. Him. The 9/11 guy. Used to be a terrorist star. Now he's just a has-been hiding in a remote cave or compound, too afraid to appear in a video and unable to command much of anything. He can't even get a 9/11-anniversary audiotape to the media on time. Hope we kill him. Sooner, rather than later. He's still unfinished business. But Osama ain't got the licks he used to have. And he's changing his tune -- in a frantic attempt to get the Muslim world to pay attention again. (It's tough being a has-been, when...

Osama bin Laden Warns Americans In New Tape Message appeared in Web site often used by al Qaeda supporters DUBAI - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden issued an apparently new audio tape on an Islamist Web site on Monday, warning the American people over their government's close ties to Israel. The message, entitled "A statement to the American people," was approximately 10 minutes long and appeared on a Web site often used by supporters of al Qaeda. The same Web site said earlier this month it would soon carry a "present" to Muslims from bin Laden, who is thought...

The Jewish New Year, the Holiday of Rosh Hashana begins this Friday and the Head of Al Qaeda did not want it to go by without sending a message to people of the the United States, and the Jews who he says control foreign policy. The tape of Obama's latest diatribe was posted on al Qaeda affiliated Web sites on 9/13, two days after the eighth anniversary of the 2001 suicide plane hijackings. The strange thing is that Bin Laden said Americans had failed to understand that al-Qaida carried out the attacks in retaliation for U.S. support for Israel. If...

Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is calling for America to end our support of Israel. Apparently Osama has not been paying attention. Because President Obama clearly is not supportive of Israel. TERRORISM: BIN LADEN, 'AMERICANS, FREE YOURSELVES FROM ISRAEL' (AGI) - Washington, 14 Sept - Three days after the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Osama Bin Laden has once again made himself heard.

American support for Israel was the reason for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001, according to an audio message purported to be from Osama bin Laden, the leader of the international Al-Qaeda terrorist organization. The whereabouts of Bid Laden are not known, and the video image accompanying the audio featured only a still picture of him. The title of the audio was, “Message to the American People.” and was released two days after the eighth anniversary of the multiple aerial attacks on the U.S.

WASHINGTON, Sept 13, 2009 (AFP) - A new audio purported to be an "address to the American public" from Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has been released by the militant network's media branch, a US-based terror monitoring group said Sunday. Al-Qaeda's As-Sahab media released a video featuring a still image of bin Laden and an audio statement, said IntelCenter, noting that there were no subtitles or transcript yet available.

RIYADH: The family of Osama bin Laden has announced the death of one of the terror mastermind's brothers. In a full-page notice on Sunday in Al-Riyadh newspaper, the family said Thabet bin Laden passed away and the funeral is scheduled that afternoon in the holy city of Makkah. The notice said he died Saturday but did not give the cause of death or his age. Thabet bin Laden was one of 54 children born to Mohammed bin Laden, a poor Yemeni immigrant who started the family contracting business in the 1930s that grew into a multimillion dollar construction empire. The...

Al-Fursan Media:: Jihad Recollections no. 4 - <<9/11 SPECIAL>> “The men behind 9/11 and the motives that bound them” September 12, 2009 Posted by admin in : Al-Fursan Media, Books, Jiha�d, Knowledge , trackback

(CNSNews.com) – A new survey gauging Muslim attitudes indicates that backing for suicide bombings against civilians, while generally down from earlier years, remains significant in some Islamic countries – challenging the assertion that Muslims supporting terrorism constitute a “tiny minority.” In the Pew Global Attitudes Project poll released on Thursday, 68 percent of Palestinian Muslim respondents said suicide bombings against civilians were justifiable “to defend Islam from its enemies.” That view was shared by 43 percent of respondents in Nigeria and 38 percent in Lebanon, where 51 percent of Shi’ites held the view compared to 25 percent of Sunnis. Elsewhere,...

The Jihadi attacks against New York and Washington created an unforgettable date in the collective psyche of Americans: this nation was bled by men indoctrinated by an ideology that, both in its texts and in its actions, knows no mercy for free societies. The terrifying three numbers and a hyphen 9-11 took their place in the country's national identity, alongside Pearl Harbor in the high drama of American history. But 9-11 became also a benchmark to other nations and regions of the world. In Europe, Russia, and India, civil societies began identifying the date 9/11with their own subsequent traumas. Madrid...

SNIP Al Qaeda thug Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and former No. 2 henchman of Osama bin Laden, looks oddly like his monstrous mentor after six years of captivity. SNIP But, KSM, as he's known in intelligence circles, doesn't look any worse for wear in photographs taken in July during a visit by the International Committee of the Red Cross to Guantanamo Bay. A healthy-looking Mohammed has grown a long bin Laden-like beard, while sporting a red-checkered turban. The last the world saw of him six years ago, he was disheveled, paunchy, in a stretched T-shirt...

El Marco - 9/11 remembrance photo essay http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2009/08/911-never-forget-never-give-in/ Photographed over three decades, El Marco's 9/11 memorial photo essay offers a moving tribute to the workers and rescuers who perished 8 years ago in New York City. Previously unpublished photos of the Twin Towers, and scenes after 9/11 provide a unique insight into America's loss and strength.

Daniel J. Hill joined the US Army at the age of 15, by lying about his age. He eventually became a Special Forces paratrooper and served in Germany....In 1960 he was assigned to infiltrate the Katanga insurrection in the Congo where he met his lifelong friend, Rick Rescorla.... Rescorla had become Director of Security for Dean Witter Securities (later merged with Morgan Stanley), which occupied a number of floors in the World Trade Center. Rescorla had become increasingly concerned about the potential for a terrorist attack against the center and in 1990 hired Hill to provide an assessment of the...

Art Keller, a blond, blue-eyed CIA agent, sits inside a decrepit building deep inside al-Qaeda territory, staring at his computer screen. He is forbidden by his Pakistani minders from venturing out into the badlands of Waziristan to help to find and kill the world’s most wanted man. He is sick and exhausted, and suffering from food poisoning. Back home in the US his father is dying of cancer. The plumbing is basic, the heat intense — the generator has failed again. He pores over cables looking for any scrap of information — an intercepted phone call, an aerial photograph —...

(On 9/11) I said to myself, "We'll get you, you bastards," but I was wrong. We haven't. It has been eight years, two terms of Bush moralism and the beginning of Obama pragmatism, and the man who ordered the killing of Americans in Lower Manhattan and the Pentagon and in the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania is still in his lair... ...and I wanted then, as I do now, revenge for what happened. Bring me the head of Osama bin Laden. That revenge would be my first thought surprised me even then...When we talk about Afghanistan, whether to stay or...

A website often used by al Qaeda supporters said it would soon carry a "present" to Muslims from Osama bin Laden on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan.

If you are an opponent to the current health care reform proposals under consideration, this is how some on the left view you: View at EasyCaptures.com"THE HEIRS OF, YES: BIN LADEN "The striking thing to remember is that this descriptor was not posted on DU or Kos or Firedoglake or some of the other fringe sites. This was posted on mybarackobama.com, Obama's very own Organizing for America website. These are classic Alinsky tactics that we are seeing played out before us over and over and over again. The best, most imaginative writers in Hollywood would not be able to make...

"Swedish model Ida Pyk launched her first collection this week featuring shirts with pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy, Osama bin Laden or Swedish politician Maud Olofsson on them. For those who are not that into clothes with politicians or terrorists she designed shirts and tights with cocky texts such as “I was anorexic – but I’m ok now”."

A MERE 60-odd years on, World War II still haunts us like a livid vision out of a waking dream. Three generations after fascism annihilated itself in the manner of a suicide-bomber, Leftists and conservatives still wrestle for the laurel of true anti-fascist. Even today our bright-eyed Judeophobes know that they must transfer the shame of the Holocaust elsewhere before they can set about the unsubtle business of depicting Israelis as the modern Nazis. And our open-hearted efforts to "understand" our own era's grand-operatic reactionaries - flint-eyed jihadis such as Indonesia's Noordin Mohammed Top, or the cynical corridor-lurkers of our...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gkIBVaTTnTDT_lg8TWBbbawpW0cQ “Terror suspects lose extradition case in Britain” (AFP) – 5 days ago SNIPPET: “LONDON — Two alleged leading conspirators of Osama bin Laden on Friday lost their latest battle to escape extradition from Britain over the 1998 US embassy bombings in east Africa. Khalid al Fawwaz, a 46-year-old Saudi businessman, and Adel Abdel Bary, an Egyptian, are wanted by the United States over their alleged role in the attacks in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.” SNIPPET: “Al Fawwaz was living with his wife and three children in London before his arrest on a New York court indictment...

Here is a video report that takes a look at the "Family Tree" of the world's most infamous and wanted terrorist - Obama Bin Laden. He is the 18th of 45 children, and has five wives of his own. . . . . (Watch Video)

NPR.org, July 22, 2009 · U.S. officials believe Saad bin Laden — a son of Osama bin Laden — has been killed by an American missile in Pakistan. Saad bin Laden reportedly spent years under house arrest in Iran before traveling last year to Pakistan, according to former National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell. It's believed he was killed by Hellfire missiles fired from a U.S. Predator drone sometime this year. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official tells NPR that without a body to conduct DNA tests on, it's hard to be completely sure. But he characterized U.S. spy agencies as being...

Per Fox News

U.S. officials believe Usama bin Laden's son, Saad bin Laden, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan. Sources confirmed to FOX News late Wednesday that officials believe the younger bin Laden was killed by hellfire missiles from a U.S. Predator drone strike earlier this year. The death was first reported by National Public Radio. National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell told NPR that Saad bin Laden reportedly traveled to Pakistan last year after spending several years under house arrest in Iran.

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Report: Bin Laden's Son Killed in Pakistan Air Strike Wednesday, July 22, 2009 U.S. officials believe Usama bin Laden's son Saad bin Laden was killed in a U.S. air strike in Pakistan, according to a report from NPR.org.

U.S. officials believe Saad bin Laden — a son of Osama bin Laden — has been killed by an American missile in Pakistan. Saad bin Laden reportedly spent years under house arrest in Iran before traveling last year to Pakistan, according to former National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell. It's believed he was killed by Hellfire missiles fired from a U.S. Predator drone sometime this year.

Congressional liberals must think Americans have very short memories. For years the Left trashed the Bush administration for not capturing and killing Osama bin Laden. Democrats claimed they could get the job done. Campaigning for president, Barack Obama made “We will kill bin Laden” a regular part of his foreign policy stump speech. But as the political winds have shifted, so has the nature of the Left’s indictments. Congressional Democrats continue to attack the Bush administration. Only now they are blaming it for trying to kill Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders. Theirs is a dangerous game. The Democrats’...

Osama bin Laden's number two appealed for money today in a sign that the economic crisis is even taking its toll on terrorism. Stressing the need for funds, Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims to rise up against the United States – or at least donate some cash for the cause. His appeal echoes one made by Mustafa Abu al-Yazeed, al Qaeda’s top commander in Afghanistan, who complained that militants in the region were hampered by a lack of equipment and money. Al-Zawahri’s plea was particularly aimed at Pakistan, where public opinion appears to be swinging against Al Qaeda to support...

President Bush last month signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to undertake its most sweeping and lethal covert action since the founding of the agency in 1947, explicitly calling for the destruction of Osama bin Laden and his worldwide al Qaeda network, according to senior government officials. Bush's order, called an intelligence "finding," instructs the agency to attack bin Laden's communications, security apparatus and infrastructure, senior government officials said. U.S. intelligence has identified new and important specific weaknesses in the bin Laden organization that are not publicly known, and these vulnerabilities will be the focus of the lethal covert...

WASHINGTON — Armed with new authority from President Bush for a global campaign against al-Qaida, the Central Intelligence Agency is contemplating clandestine missions expressly aimed at killing specified individuals for the first time since the assassination scandals and consequent legal restraints of the 1970s. Drawing on two classified legal memoranda, one written for President Bill Clinton in 1998 and one since the attacks of Sept. 11, the Bush administration has concluded that executive orders banning assassination do not prevent the president from lawfully singling out a terrorist for death by covert action. The CIA is reluctant to accept a broad...

"Message to the People of Pakistan from the Sheikh and Mujahid: Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin (Hafidhullah) July 12, 2009 by ummahmedia"

Stop bombing us: Osama isn’t here, says Pakistan Christina Lamb in Karachi Osama bin Laden and the top Al-Qaeda leadership are not in Pakistan, making US missile attacks against them futile, according to the country’s interior minister. “If Osama was in Pakistan we would know, with all the thousands of troops we have sent into the tribal areas in recent months,” Rehman Malik told The Sunday Times. “If he and all these four or five top people were in our area they would have been caught, the way we are searching.” He added: “According to our information Osama is in...

Al Qaeda Leader Spent Weeks in USA ByPaul L. Williams, Ph.D.thelastcrusade.org. After years of speculation, the rumors finally have been confirmed. Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were not the only top al Qaeda operatives to spend some time in the U.S.A. Osama bin Laden made the trek from Saudi Arabia to the land of the free and the home of the brave in 1978 with his first wife Najwa and his son Omar. The account of the trip is reported by Najwa bin Laden, Osama’s first wife, in Growing Up Bin Laden, soon to be published by St....

From Lexis Nexis transcript: BECK: Yes, sir. OK. So you have seen this. Do you really, honestly believe that we have come to a place to where those very senior people in the highest offices of the land, Congress and the White House, really will not do the right thing in the end, that they won't see the error of their ways? SCHEUER: No, sir, they will not. Not -- the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States. Because it's going to...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - After more than five years, the Pentagon revealed why it is holding a Saudi nicknamed "the Professor" at Guantanamo Bay, saying he once lived with a Sept. 11 conspirator and received a stipend from Osama bin Laden. Shaker Aamer's lawyer denies the allegations, made after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week requested the release of the Saudi, who has been an unofficial leader among the detainees, and four other former residents of Britain. The Bush administration, which has been urging other nations to accept Guantanamo prisoners amid international pressure to close the military jail,...

Welcome to another bumper edition of Mind How You Go. The only trouble is knowing where to start. Spoilt for choice, as a matter of fact. Should I kick off with the trigger-happy Plod who Tasered a sheep? Or banning compulsory swimming lessons for all new recruits to avoid offending Muslim women. Both of those are brought to you courtesy of the Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban, who has turned North Wales Police into the provisional wing of the Keystone Kops. Let's begin with the Tasered sheep. As I constantly remind you, if you give anyone any authority whatsoever,...

Monsignor John Esseff is on a mission from God. He hopes to have the Sacred Heart of Jesus enthroned as King of the entire world, family by family, church by church, dioceses by dioceseÂ…country by country. Accompanied by other priests, he is now embarking on a tour to meet with cardinals worldwide to solicit their support to develop an official plan within the Catholic Church to enthrone Jesus as the King of our world and present this plan to the Pope. This may sound idealistic, but with so many friends in high places, my money is on Monsignor. Oh, and...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version November 11, 2005, 2:18 p.m. War & Responsibility “It is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.� EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the text of a Veterans Day speech President George W. Bush delivered at Tobyhanna Army Depot, in Pennsylvania, as released by the White House. Thank you all very much. Thank you all for coming, please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm glad to be back in Pennsylvania and I'm proud to be the first sitting President to visit Monroe County. (Applause.) I'm especially...

<p>CAIRO -- Osama bin Laden threatened Americans in a new audio tape Wednesday, saying President Barack Obama inflamed hatred toward the U.S. by ordering Pakistan to crack down on militants in Swat Valley and block Islamic law there.</p> <p>Bin Laden claimed U.S. pressure led to a campaign of "killing, fighting, bombing and destruction" that prompted the exodus of a million Muslims from Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan.</p>