http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/obl/ en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:38:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414212/posts Former President Bill Clinton came within minutes of being assassinated in the Philippines by terrorists controlled by Osama bin Laden, a new book has revealed. ...Marisa Porges, a former government counter-terrorism advisor and an expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, a US think tank, said the assassination plot, if true, would suggest al Qaeda was more developed than some thought it was prior to 9/11”. Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414212/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:38:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413745/posts CAIRO – A Saudi-owned newspaper says that one of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's daughters has taken refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after eluding guards who have held her and five brothers under house arrest for eight years. yahoo/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413745/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:26:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413694/posts CAIRO - A Saudi-owned newspaper says that one of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's daughters has taken refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after eluding guards who have held her and five brothers under house arrest for eight years. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413694/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:16:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406667/posts On December 11, 2009, Sean Hannity hosted a town hall meeting on the decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four additional 9/11 conspirators in federal court and to do so in lower Manhattan, a mere six blocks from Ground Zero. Attending were 9/11 family members, first responders, and post-attack rescue and recovery workers. The show also featured interviews of Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Jeff Sessions, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former Navy Secretary and 9/11 Commissioner John Lehman, former Governor and 9/11 Commission co-chair Tom Kean, Andrew McCarthy who led the... 911NeverForget.Us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406667/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:14:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401950/posts Given a chance to clear away some of the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the world's most wanted terrorist, U.S. officials seemed to add to it with what appeared to be conflicting assessments. National Security Adviser James Jones said Sunday that Osama bin Laden, believed hiding mainly in a rugged area of western Pakistan, may be periodically slipping back into Afghanistan. But Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday the United States has lacked good intelligence on Mr. bin Laden for a long time — “I think it has been years.” When asked whether the United States planned a fresh attempt... Globe and Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401950/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:03:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400689/posts A Taliban detainee in Pakistan claims to have information about Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts in January or February of this year. His claims cannot be verified, but a leading American expert says his account should be investigated. The detainee claims to have met Osama Bin Laden numerous times before 9/11. He claims that in January or February he met a trusted contact who had seen Bin Laden about 15 to 20 days earlier in Afghanistan. "In 2009, in January or February I met this friend of mine. He said he had come from meeting Sheikh Osama, and he could arrange... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400689/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 02:05:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396331/posts LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Washington, DC, November 30, 2009 DEAR COLLEAGUE: This report by the Committee majority staff is part of our continuing examination of the conflict in Afghanistan. When we went to war less than a month after the attacks of September 11, the objective was to destroy Al Qaeda and kill or capture its leader, Osama bin Laden, and other senior figures in the terrorist group and the Taliban, which had hosted them. Today, more than eight years later, we find ourselves fighting an increasingly lethal insurgency in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan... COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396331/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:55:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395913/posts As President Obama vows to “finish the job” in Afghanistan by sending more troops, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has completed a detailed look back at a crucial failure early in the battle against Al Qaeda: the escape of Osama bin Laden from American forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in December 2001. “Removing the Al Qaeda leader from the battlefield eight years ago would not have eliminated the worldwide extremist threat,” the committee’s report concludes. “But the decisions that opened the door for his escape to Pakistan allowed bin Laden to emerge as a potent symbolic figure... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395913/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:06:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390005/posts Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to give a federal court trial instead of a military commission hearing to five Guantanamo detainees the government has linked to the 9/11 attacks has led to criticism that the Obama Administration is transforming the war on terror from a military to law-enforcement affair. This has led some critics to wonder if captured terrorist suspects would have to be read their Miranda rights on being captured by U.S. military or law enforcement representatives. In one of the highlights of Wednesday's Justice Department oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina... npr.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390005/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:34:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364656/posts Andrew Neatty of AFP previews a book to be published at the end of the month, written by his first wife and her son, revealing something of the personal side of the man. This is one angry, mean, cruel man. Not just to infidels. Some highlights: Soon after, bin Laden began to travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet occupation, returning to tell his sons tales of battles in Afghan caves and mountains under Soviet fire. He eventually returned to Saudi Arabia a hero, but at home was increasingly disciplinarian, punishing his children -- who eventually numbered... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364656/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:26:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2342564/posts Jimmy Carter's loathing for Israel and preference for Palestinian Jew-Killers has been well-documented. And his tireless Israel bashing on behalf of Palestinian terrorists has won him at least one devoted fan. In his latest tape, Osama bin Laden, or his ghost, recommends several books for Americans to read, including Jimmy Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. While the voice on the tape does not mention this book by name, it calls on Americans to “read what your former president, Carter, wrote regarding Israeli racism against our people in Palestine.” The book in question was too ridiculously one-sided even for the New... Moonbattery http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2342564/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:24:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339059/posts WASHINGTON – In a tape released Sunday by al-Qaida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan. SITE Intelligence Group, a terrorist-monitoring firm that translated the address, said bin Laden, whose al-Qaida organization was behind the Sept. 11 attacks, blamed the war on the "pro-Israel lobby" and corporate interests. IntelCenter, another company that monitors terrorist propaganda, said the 11-minute video shows a still picture of bin Laden while audio of the address plays. Bin Laden's address to the American people comes two days after the eighth anniversary of the... AP/ Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339059/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:25:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338948/posts 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. Ottawa Citizen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338948/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:35:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292553/posts 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... Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292553/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:44:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292543/posts 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... Washington Post/Daily Camera http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292543/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:29:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291052/posts "Message to the People of Pakistan from the Sheikh and Mujahid: Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin (Hafidhullah) July 12, 2009 by ummahmedia" Ummah Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291052/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:42:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290624/posts 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... Timesonline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290624/posts#comment Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:51:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289267/posts North African extremist group, whose senior leaders were crucial allies of Osama bin Laden, has denounced terrorism and become the first organisation ever to leave al-Qaeda. The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which once sought to overthrow Col Muammar Gaddafi, dealt a blow to bin Laden by reversing a decision made in 2007 to join al-Qaeda. A statement from the LIFG leadership criticised "indiscriminate bombings" and the "targeting of civilians", saying that violence "did not achieve the aims of the group in removing oppression". Al-Qaeda has come under mounting pressure in recent months. Missile attacks executed by American drones in... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289267/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:39:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2287926/posts 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.... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2287926/posts#comment Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:48:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283830/posts 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... Glenn Beck Show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283830/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 03:36:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255019/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Minneapolis Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Al-Qaeda Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, a 35-year-old resident of Minneapolis, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support and resources to al-Qaeda Warsame, a naturalized Canadian citizen of Somali descent, entered his plea of guilty this afternoon before U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim in federal court in Minneapolis. At sentencing, which was set for 1:30 pm on July 9, 2009, Warsame faces a statutory maximum sentence of 15 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. He has agreed to... US DOJ.GOV/opa - Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255019/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 22:17:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246775/posts News reports described the meeting as a touching and powerful coming together of the president and these long-suffering families. Mr. Obama had won over even those who opposed his decision to close Gitmo by assuaging their fears that the review of some 245 current detainees would result in dangerous jihadists being set free. “I did not vote for the man, but the way he talks to you, you can’t help but believe in him,” said John Clodfelter to the New York Times. His son, Kenneth, was killed in the Cole bombing. “[Mr. Obama] left me with a very positive feeling... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246775/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 10:45:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241695/posts Osama bin Laden is dead, according to Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari. This week he stunned the world with the exciting news that Pakistan's intelligence services have "obviously" concluded that bin Laden "does not exist any more, that he is dead." The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241695/posts#comment Fri, 1 May 2009 01:33:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226352/posts Claims of the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden seem to be as common as sightings of David Duchovny at porn shops. It is tempting to dismiss all such accounts as hearsay and rumors, but current reports focus on three areas of the world as the most likely hideout for the globe’s most wanted man: Parachinar, Pakistan; Chitra, Pakistan; and most shockingly, the Islamic Republic of Iran. While it is often argued bin Laden would never receive harbor on Iranian territory, this is the location most identified by eyewitness reports available to the public, allowing for a detailed chronology of his... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226352/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:19:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222388/posts Osama bin Laden’s passion for falcon hunting may have come close to doing him in two years ago, when an American falconer working with a Tajik smuggler and a team of former special forces operators planned to kidnap the fugitive terrorist during a hunt in northeastern Iran, according to one of the people involved in the scheme. The plan was scuttled when FBI officials in Boston threatened to arrest members of the snatch team for violating the Neutrality Act — even though the State Department has been running a “Rewards for Justice” program offering private citizens up to $25 million... News Max http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222388/posts#comment Sat, 4 Apr 2009 18:46:19 GMT