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Al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden has reportedly been killed after nearly a ten-year search following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Reports of his death emerged online late Sunday (May 1) evening. Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden is dead, according to US media reports citing officials. The US is in possession of Bin Laden's body, the reports say. President Barack Obama is due to make a statement shortly. Mr Bin Laden is top of the US most wanted list. He is accused of being behind a number of atrocities, including the attacks on...

President Obama has endured entertainment industry criticism over the last few years for requesting premium broadcast air time for making speeches. But Sunday night’s abrupt and unexpected interruption is unlikely to draw any complaints. Multiple news organizations are reporting that the White House is set to announce that, at last, Osama bin Laden is dead. ABC, CBS and NBC have cut away from scheduled programming to cover this enormous news. With all the back and forth between President Obama and Donald Trump in recent weeks, Twitter flared up with amused conspiracy theories when NBC News cut away from Trump’s Celebrity...

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said Sunday. U.S. President Barack Obama was to make the dramatic announcement shortly in a hastily called, late-night appearance at the White House. It is a major accomplishment for Obama and his national security team. Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring to justice the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, but never did before leaving office in early 2009. U.S. officials said that after searching in vain for the al-Qaeda leader since...

I remember that Bin Laden was said to have a bodyguard who would kill him if he was ever about to fall into US hands. Maybe that's how he died because I don't think Obama said our forces actually killed him.

WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, a person familiar with the situation said late Sunday.

I just heard on ABC radio news that bin Laden is to be buried at sea. Why in the world, after everything that has resulted from his actions, would they fail to produce a body as proof of his death?

The most important thing is justice is served and gratitude to our military for the hard work they achieved in getting Osama. But libs on the networks are talking about political victory for Obama and game changers for his reelections anybody remember Bush and his 90% approval because of the Gulf War swift victory? It fell apart because of the falling economy In a few weeks if gas prices go up higher...any bump in Obama approval or U.S. euphoria which we ALL should be glad about will fall apart.

Just a mater of time before they do.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead, and President Barack Obama will announce his death, nearly 10 years after the September 11 attacks in a televised address, a senior US official told AFP. The official said on condition of anonymity that Bin Laden was dead, but did not provide details of how his death occurred. Obama was imminently to address Americans in a highly unusual Sunday night appearance on television.

Very sketchy details. Unconfirmed... Networks efforting confirmation. More as known

"Osama Bin Laden has been killed by U.S. military forces ... according to numerous news reports."........

Looks like it is true that the Bastard is going to hell. Good, but the war on terror is not over and a lot of work still has to be done.

Osama bin Laden, hunted as the mastermind behind the worst-ever terrorist attack on U.S. soil, has been killed, sources told ABC News.

jimgeraghty Geraldo: "This is the greatest day of my career - the bum is dead!"half a minute agovia TweetDeckReply Retweet . Smalltalkwitht Please @Foxnews RT @AlieGirl7: Fox please get rid of Geraldo2 minutes agovia TweetDeckRetweeted by HoosierEm . brianstelter RT @skidder: Blitzer says a "sr administration official" appreciates CNN's discretion, that other news outlets that are "wildly speculating"4 minutes agovia webRetweeted by Revkin . jdickerson RT @jacksonjk: House Intelligence committee aide confirms that Osama Bin Laden is dead. U.S. has the body.4 minutes agovia TweetDeckRetweeted by Revkin . jimgeraghty Wolf: "I suspect this is something we've been looking forward to...

Al Qaeda terrorists have threatened to unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" on the West if their leader and world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden is nabbed. A senior al Qaeda commander has claimed that the terror group has stashed away a nuclear bomb in Europe which will be detonated if bin Laden is ever caught or assassinated, according to new top secret files made public by internet whistleblower WikiLeaks. The documents are secret details of the background to the capture of each of the 780 people held at or have passed through the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, along...

John King just said that Obama's upcoming announcement is that we have the body.

Bin Laden Is Dead, U.S. Official Says Obama to Make Announcement Osama bin Laden has been killed, a United States official said Sunday night. President Obama is expected to make an announcement on Sunday night, almost 10 years after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Chief of Staff of Donald Rumsfield tweeted OBL has been killed. Perhaps this is Obama's new speech coming soon?

Secret government documents leaked to the media last night reveal a top Gitmo detainee vowed to unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" if Osama Bin Laden was ever captured or assassinated. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, claimed Al Qaeda had hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe that was tied to Bin Laden's fate, according to a dump of classified documents released by the WikiLeaks website. The frightening information was in thousands of pages of dossiers of detainees being held at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. Mohammed's boast to his Gitmo interrogators remains unconfirmed, but officials...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee sees a Libyan stalemate and wants NATO to bomb Moammar Gadhafi's inner circle and military headquarters. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham says those closest to Gadhafi "need to wake up every day wondering, 'Will this my last?'" Graham tells CNN's "State of the Union" that the quickest way to end the stalemate is "to cut the head of the snake off."

Liberals are no longer seeing "change we can believe in." Just 37 percent of self-described lefties say in the latest Rasmussen poll that they still strongly approve of President Obama's performance. That's way down from 63 percent a year ago, 57 percent earlier this year -- and 52 percent just a week go. And the 19 percent who said they "strongly approved" equaled not only the lowest percentage of the 2-year-old presidency but also less than half of the 39 percent who said they "strongly disapproved." Pollster Scott Rasmussen blamed the stunning drop in support on Obama's liberal base, noting...

President Obama’s advisers give him credit for energizing the Arab revolts and saving the Libyan rebels. For al Qaeda’s leadership, this is all a gift from Allah.

Listen. Do you hear the “Obama lied/People died” chants? Look. Can you see the throngs gathering on the National Mall to protest, “No Blood for Oil”? No? You can’t? Well, neither can I. But lefties will protest a Democratic President’s war as they did a Republican President’s war, right? The Nobel Peace Prize winner-in-chief’s “kinetic military action” in Libya has unmoored liberals from their loudly professed convictions. He has sent conservatives back to—or at least rethinking—theirs. Specifically, the Right has reconsidered George W. Bush-era delusions regarding the universality of Western principles, their easy transplantation through nation-building democracy as an antidote...

Reports that Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted fugitive with a $50 million U.S. bounty on his head, has broken cover to move around Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent weeks has raised concern he may be planning a new major attack on the West.

CAIRO, April 9 (Kyodo) _ Osama bin Laden is alive and well and planning a new terror attack, according to an extremist Islamic group likely linked to the terrorist network al-Qaida, the Arabic newspaper Al Hayat said Tuesday according to ANSA news agency. Al Hayat said it received a letter dated March 26 and making such claims from the group calling itself Qai'dat al-Jihad on Monday. The letter, addressed ''to our Islamic state and to the heroic Palestinian people'' said ''God has given permission to resume activities.'' ''Al-Qaida's leader has gone abroad safely. Bin Laden is safe and well. He...

U.S. expecting more prisoners in Afghanistan WASHINGTON -- American forces in Afghanistan are expecting to receive a growing stream of prisoners in the coming days from among the thousands captured by Afghan fighters. Some could face U.S. military tribunals. President Bush defended his plan to put terrorist suspects before a military tribunal, saying Friday that they will be treated more fairly than Americans were in the deadly attacks of Sept. 11. The number of prisoners jailed at the makeshift detention center at Afghanistan's Kandahar Airport has risen steadily this week, and the Pentagon was expecting the addition of a ...

Panetta: If captured, bin Laden would be held at Guantánamo By Jordy Yager - 02/16/11 03:57 PM ET The head of the CIA told senators on Wednesday that Osama bin Laden would be held at Guantánamo Bay prison if he were captured. CIA Director Leon Panetta was asked by the ranking Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), what would happen to the heads of al Qaeda — Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri — if they were captured. “The process would obviously involve — especially with the two targets that you just described —...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- If the U.S. captures top al-Qaida leaders Osama Bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri, they would likely be sent to the Guantanamo Bay military prison, CIA Director Leon Panetta told senators Wednesday. This suggests that, given the choice, President Barack Obama would not try the men in the U.S. court system, opting instead for the Bush administration's policy that the president has long criticized.

l-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden called on France to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in exchange for releasing French hostages being held by affiliates of the extremist group, according to a new audio message broadcast on an Arabic news channel Friday. "The exit of your hostages out of the hands of our brothers depends on the exit of your troops from Afghanistan," bin Laden said in the message broadcast by al-Jazeera. Bin Laden reminded the French people of President Nicolas Sarkozy's refusal in November to withdraw the French troops from Afghanistan and to negotiate with al-Qaida over the hostages.

Big earthquake (7.3 R)hits Pakistan minutes ago.

The CIA has come closer to capturing or killing Osama bin Laden’s top deputy than was previously known, during a nine-year hunt at the root of a devastating 2009 suicide bombing at an agency base in Afghanistan, The Associated Press has learned. The CIA missed a chance to nab Ayman al-Zawahiri in 2003 in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, where he met with another senior al-Qaeda leader who was apprehended the next day, several current and former U.S. intelligence officials said. The fugitive Egyptian doctor may also have narrowly survived a bombing by Pakistani military planes in 2004, the...

Osama bin Laden, who has long criticized America in his fiery speeches, is turning his attention to France. In a new audio recording purported to be from the Al Qaeda leader, Mr. Bin Laden threatens French citizens with kidnappings and death, warns France to pull its troops out of Afghanistan, and chastises the nation for banning the full-face Islamic veil for women. "The equation is very clear and simple: as you kill, you will be killed; as you take others hostages, you will be taken hostages; as you waste our security we will... waste your security," Bin Laden said in...

France is leaving Afghanistan. Though President Obama has committed to reducing America’s footprint in Afghanistan beginning July 2011, the withdrawal of another ally is likely to add an additional layer of challenge to maneuver that reduction. And the timing of the announcement has put France’s decision under some scrutiny.

On their way out of Afghanistan Just a day after Osama bin Laden warned France to remove its troops from Afghanistan, French Defense Minister Herve Morin announced Thursday, Oct. 28 that the withdrawal of French troops would begin in early 2011. Paris then raised its terror alert level to "red" after confirming the authenticity of the Bin Laden audiotape aired Wednesday.

Osama bin Laden is living in relative comfort in the far north-west of Pakistan, according to a Nato official who has day-to-day responsibility for the war in Afghanistan. The official, who has access to sensitive intelligence information, told CNN that Bin Laden was not holed up in a cave, but has been moving between houses in the Chitral district and the Kurram valley, which neighbours Tora Bora in Afghanistan, from which he fled in 2001. Recent reports had placed him much further south, in North Waziristan, the base for many Taliban insurgents moving back and forth across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border....

Intelligence officials and people familiar with an unfolding terrorist plot to target Europe tell NPR that Osama bin Laden is involved. Several months ago, sources say, bin Laden used couriers to send a message to al-Qaida's affiliates and partners: He told them that he would like to see a Mumbai-style attack on at least three strategic targets — the United Kingdom, Germany and France. Osama bin Laden's directive is meaningful because it suggests that the core leadership of al-Qaida still has influence over its followers and that the group has added a new style of attack to its repertoire. SNIP...

General David Petraeus said Sunday Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is "far buried" in the remote mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan but capturing the "iconic figure" remains a key task. "I don't think anyone knows where Osama bin Laden is," the head of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan told NBC television's "Meet the Press" when asked about the Al-Qaeda leader's whereabouts. "The fact that it took him four weeks to get a congratulatory message out or a message of condolence... indicates literally how far buried he is probably in the very, very most remote and mountainous region."

Exclusive: Les Kinsolving makes prediction about Clinton's intentions for Nov. 4, 2012 Dare I make a prediction? Well, of course I'll dare – to predict that on Thursday morning, Nov. 4, after final results are in and the House of Representatives goes back to a Republican majority: Look for further Big News. Hillary Clinton announces her resignation as secretary of state. And – within one week – national news is dominated with reports of the opening of HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT campaign headquarters in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Texas and California – to begin with. How...

He has decided a full-scale military encirclement and invasion – as American troops had done in Iraq's Fallujah – was not an appropriate model to tackle the Taliban in the southern capital.Gen Petraeus is reported to believe that the operation must be a broad-ranging counter-insurgency campaign, involving more troops working with local militias.The plan he inherited was criticised for placing too much emphasis on targeted assassinations of key insurgent leaders and not enough on winning over local residents.Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said yesterday that the US-led strategy in southern Afghanistan was undergoing sweeping changes....

A son of Osama bin Laden said about 20 members of his family stranded in Iran are seeking sanctuary in a third country and that the U.S. may agree to accept them....

WASHINGTON: The US homeland security department has put a six-year-old Indian origin American girl on the "no fly" list on the grounds of having suspected ties to terrorists. Alyssa Thomas, 6, is under spotlight of the US government, and her family recently came to know that she is on the "no fly" list maintained by the US homeland security. During a recent trip from Cleveland to Minneapolis, the girl’s father, Santhosh Thomas, and his wife were made aware of the listing. The Thomas family was allowed to make their trip but they were told to contact the homeland security to...

CIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday that it has been since the "early 2000s" that the U.S. had good intelligence on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden but believes he has holed up in the tribal areas of Pakistan. In an interview on ABC's This Week, Panetta also said the U.S. faced a "tough road" ahead in Afghanistan and downplayed a report that Pakistan was trying to form its own alliance with Afghanistan by saying it could deliver the backing of a key insurgent group for a power-sharing arrangement. Speaking of bin Laden, Panetta said "He is, as...

Question: The Hawaiian Elections Clerk Who Supports Obama Said he Was Not Born In Hawaii And Is Foreign Born. Does It matter To You If Obama Were Born in Another Country? The Controversy surrounding Obama’s birth place is one that will not end until there are answers to the questions posed. ‘Birther’s led by Democrat Berg in PA have accused Barack Obama of his his real birth in Kenya. They maintain that Obama’s ‘released’ birth certificate is the electronic COLB (Certificate of Live Birth) which is give to those who do not have A long Form certificate which states the...

DENVER (AP) - An American man has been detained in the mountains of Pakistan after authorities found him carrying a sword, pistol and night-vision goggles on a solo mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden. Friends and family say construction worker Gary Brooks Faulkner is a devout, good-humored Christian who was "on a mission" to kill or capture Osama. "A lot of kids grow up and say, `I want to be Rambo,' you know? Well, he is," said Faulkner's brother, Scott Faulkner, 43. He said his brother made five previous trips to Pakistan.

Through key intelligence sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan, I have just learned that reclusive Taliban leader and top Osama bin Laden ally, Mullah Omar has been taken into custody....

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused members of the Pakistani government over the weekend of practically harboring Usama bin Laden, raising questions about whether the U.S. is pushing hard enough on its presumed ally to give up the world's most wanted terrorist. Clinton leveled the charge in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes." She praised Pakistan for a "sea change" in its commitment in going after terrorists, but she added that she expects more cooperation. "I'm not saying that they're at the highest levels, but I believe that somewhere in this government are people who know where Usama bin Laden...

The average commentator thinks that Osama bin Laden’s trail has gone cold and that there is no credible eyewitness testimony as to where he is located. The only available public testimony is that a member of the Taliban arrested in Pakistan claims his colleague met bin Laden in Afghanistan in the first two months of 2009 — important information, but second-hand and unverifiable. The truth is that there have been credible leads, and these leads point to Iran....

The average commentator thinks that Osama bin Laden’s trail has gone cold and that there is no credible eyewitness testimony as to where he is located. The only available public testimony is that a member of the Taliban arrested in Pakistan claims his colleague met bin Laden in Afghanistan in the first two months of 2009 — important information, but second-hand and unverifiable. The truth is that there have been credible leads, and these leads point to Iran. Ken Timmerman, the best reporter covering Iran, provided an update on a story he broke last year. The last credible person to...

AFP - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday denied recent press reports that Osama bin Laden is in Tehran and insisted that the Al-Qaeda leader is, in fact, in the US capital of Washington. "Rest assured that he's in Washington. I think there's a high chance he's there," the Iranian leader told ABC television in an interview. Without backing up the claim, the Iranian leader said he had "heard" that bin Laden was in the US capital.

<p>Usama Bin Laden Is Living Comfortably in Iran, Documentary Asserts By Ed Barnes - FOXNews.com Usama bin Laden gets up each morning in his dark, damp cave in northern Pakistan, gripped by fear, listening carefully for the telltale sound of a drone that is searching for him... An Iranian who supplied falcon camps says he saw and met with Usama Bin Laden six times since 2003. His eyewitness accounts adds to a growing body of evidence that the world’s most wanted is living comfortably in Iran. Usama bin Laden gets up each morning in his dark, damp cave in northern Pakistan, gripped by fear, listening carefully for the telltale sound of a drone that is searching for him. His isolation is almost complete. Only a few trusted associates know where he is, and they visit rarely -- bringing food and news, but careful not to fall into a routine. There is no radio or other electronic device whose signal might be followed. He can’t go out in daytime for fear of satellites. It is a grim, lonely existence. At least, that is the picture that has emerged of the life of the world’s most wanted man since he fled Tora Bora in 2001. But a new and vastly different picture of the Al Qaeda leader's life has been emerging over the past few years. In this scenario, he wakes each morning in a comfortable bed inside a guarded compound north of Tehran. He is surrounded by his wife and a few children. He keeps a low profile, is allowed limited travel and, in exchange for silence, is given a comfortable life under the protection of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. The idea that Bin Laden is in Iran got a strong boost recently with the premiere of a documentary called “Feathered Cocaine.”</p>