http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/osamabinladen/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:37:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420226/posts Congratulations on an outstanding job, Osama. You masterfully pulled the strings, and the most powerful nation in the world jumped. You caused turmoil in major airports around the world on the busiest travel day of the year, cancelling and delaying thousands of flights. Now we discover that there is a new place to hide explosives as we scurry around to devise solutions. Passengers go through a pre... Passengers go through a pre-flight security screening at Ben-Gurion Airport. Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski [file] Creating havoc at airports will divert our attention from your real targets. Perhaps our fragile electricity grid? Or our... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420226/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:37:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413581/posts Osama bin Laden’s closest relatives are living in a secret compound in Iran, members of the family said last night. They include a wife and children who disappeared from his Afghan camp at the time of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. There has been uncertainty about the family’s whereabouts for the past eight years, with reports that some of the children had been killed in bombings, while others had joined their father in planning terrorist attacks. However, relatives said that they found out last month that the group, including one of Osama’s wives, six of his children and... Times Online (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413581/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:22:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411714/posts UBL was 17th of 24 sons and 31 daughters. UBL has stated that it was "not a Koranic union", that (his mother) A'alia was only Mohammed’s maid and concubine (she was referred to by the other wives as “the slave”).UBL became boyhood friends with the future Crown Prince Abdul Rahman (currently 2nd in line for King).In 1967 UBL inherited $300 million. By 15, UBL was influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood.UBL set up at least three terrorist training camps in North Sudan. UBL established training bases in northern Yemen. 11 children by Najwa: Abdullah (1976), Abdul Rahman (1978), Sa’ad (1979), Osman... Internet Anthropologist Think Tank http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411714/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:00:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405087/posts Law: American heroes are arraigned for allegedly punching a terrorist in wartime. What happens to Tiger Woods isn't vital to our country's future. What happens to Matthew McCabe, Julio Huertas and Jonathan Keefe is. People are more likely to recognize the names of Tiger's alleged bimbo eruptions than the names of these three Navy SEALs we sent into battle. They are not household names in a nation consumed with Climate Gate, the public option and the antics of billionaire athletes. An administration consumed with apologies has said the architect of 9/11's massacre, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, must be given all the... Investors Business daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405087/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:15:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173004/posts <p>IF YOU ENJOYED the election crisis of 2000, you’re going to love what Democrat leaders are cooking up for November.</p> <p>"George Soros has purchased the Democratic Party," charges Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson. (2) Some might dismiss Miss Iverson's comment as hyberbole. However, Soros' massive soft-money contributions have indisputably given him power over Democrat strategy.</p> RichardPoe.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173004/posts#comment Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:55:38 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/2396843/posts Gordon Brown yesterday lashed out at Pakistan for putting British lives at risk by harbouring Osama bin Laden. The Prime Minister said the al-Qaeda leader and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are living in the Islamic state and its security services must hunt them down. Mr Brown said it was outrageous that eight years after September 11 attacks bin Laden was still head of a terror network plotting atrocities in the UK. He said: "We want to see more progress in taking out these two who have done so much damage and are clearly the brains behind many operations in Great... Mirror.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396843/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:39:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396580/posts ordon Brown told Pakistan to “take out” Osama bin Laden yesterday as Western frustration at its failure to capture the al-Qaeda leader burst into the public glare. With America and Britain seeking support for their decisions in the next two days to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, Mr Brown told the Pakistani leadership that it had not done enough to catch the men — believed to be hiding in the north of the country — responsible for the September 11 attacks. His criticism was aimed at the ISI, Pakistan’s intelligence service, which the West has long believed... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396580/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:13:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1087491/posts SAN`A, Yemen (AP) - A Yemeni politician and religious figure - designated a suspected terrorist by the United States - declared his innocence Saturday and called on Washington to substantiate its allegations. On Tuesday, Sheik Abdulmajid al-Zindani, an Afghan war veteran and the spiritual leader of the Islamic-oriented Islah Party, was added to a U.S. Treasury Department list of those suspected of supporting terrorist activities. The allegation claimed al-Zindani, who is in his 60s, had "a long history of working with Osama bin Laden, notably serving as one of his spiritual leaders." The Treasury Department said al-Zindani had actively recruited... Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1087491/posts#comment Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:00:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367059/posts On July 25, Najibullah Zazi, a lanky man in his mid-twenties, walked into the Beauty Supply Warehouse in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. The visit was captured on a store video camera. Wearing a baseball cap and pushing a shopping cart, Zazi appeared to be just another suburban guy.Of course, not many suburban guys buy six bottles of Clairoxide hair bleach, as Zazi did on this shopping trip--or return a month later to buy a dozen bottles of "Ms. K Liquid," a peroxide-based product. Aware that these were hardly the typical purchases of a heavily bearded, dark-haired young... The New Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367059/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:23:34 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/2364408/posts The FAA's report of the hijacked flights on 9/11 (2001) reveal something quite interesting. www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB165/faa7.pdf Air traffic controllers controlling Flight 77 processed Flight 77 AS A CRASHED AIRPLANE -- NOT A HIJACK. ONE OF THE MANY REASONS THAT FLIGHT 77 WAS NOT INTERCEPTED WAS BECAUSE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS BELIEVED IT HAD CRASHED IN OHIO OR WEST VIRGINIA Looking at pages 27 and 28 -- 8:40 AM Flight 77 crossing West Virginia was handed off to Indianapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center, and instructed to climb from 17,000 feet to 35,000 feet. Flight 77 reached 35,000 feet sometime between 8:40... www.911Reality.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2364408/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:59:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353320/posts PESHAWAR: After fighting brief skirmishes against militants, the Pakistan Army plans to unfold in the next few days what military officials characterise as the mother of all battles in South Waziristan, senior military and security officials said on Thursday. ‘If we don’t take the battle to them, they will bring the battle to us,’ a senior military official said of the militants. ‘The epicentre of the behemoth called the Taliban lies in South Waziristan, and this is where we will be fighting the toughest of all battles.’ For three months, the military has been drawing up plans, holding in-depth deliberations... dawn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353320/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:54:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342212/posts 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,"... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342212/posts#comment Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:27:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339275/posts Osama Bin Laden PRE-ANNOUNCED the 9/11 attacks 3 weeks in advance, promosing "unprecedented attacks" on the US 3 weeks before 9/11. This is reported at the end of this clip from ABC News, local Channel 7 from Washington, DC, broadcast on the evening of 9/11 2001. Osama Bin Laden promised that Al Qaeda would attack the US in an unprecedented way BEFORE it happened. Not only has Al Qaeda repeatedly and proudly admitted that Al Qaeda planned, funded, and executed the 9/11 attacks on the United States, but Osama Bin Laden announced (admitted) the 9/11 attacks 3 weeks in advance,... ABC News, Wash DC Local Channel 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339275/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:09:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337423/posts Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the May 1997 issue of the U.S. Naval Institute's monthly journal Proceedings. Cmdr. Shanower was among the 189 people killed at the Pentagon Sept. 11.) In a era of downsizing and tight budgets, it's easy to let the issues of the day and our different cultures and traditions distance us from our peers in the other military services. Memorial Day is one day of the year when those differences seem insignificant, when all service members reflect on the one defining experience many of us have felt that sets us apart from the rest... wsj http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337423/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:56:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303686/posts When Osama bin Laden was banished from Sudan in 1996, he left the country in a rented Soviet jet — an aged and antique Tupolev flown by a Russian pilot he did not trust. With him were a few bodyguards, his military commander, Saif al-Adel, and two sons named Sa’ad and Omar — both young men in their late teens. Although it was the corrupt Islamic government of Sudan that had robbed Osama bin Laden of much of his vast personal wealth, he blamed America for his misfortunes, according to Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright. “He held America responsible for the... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303686/posts#comment Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:02:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2301297/posts 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) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2301297/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:43:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292157/posts With Speaker Pelosi caught in the web of her own deceit over what the CIA told her about “torture,” and the Obama administration in the middle of its latest 180-degree reversal over CIA interrogators (Attorney General Holder is now considering prosecutions despite Obama’s promise of no prosecutions), Democrats have trumped up a charge that the CIA, on the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney, failed to notify Congress that it was contemplating — not implementing, but essentially brainstorming about — plans to kill or capture top al-Qaeda figures. This is their most ludicrous gambit in a long time — and... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292157/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:54:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2291687/posts A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter. www.foxnation.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2291687/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:57:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287815/posts Noted free-speech champion Keith Olbermann has declared that we have to "legally stop" Glenn Beck. The Fox News host's crime? Not reacting strongly enough for Olbermann's taste when a guest made an over-the-top remark. [H/t reader JKF.] On the June 30 editon of Beck's show, former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer said: "the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to detonate a major weapon in the United States." Apparently Scheuer thinks that's what it would take to shock the country and its leaders back to their senses. Olbermann was infuriated that Beck didn't... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287815/posts#comment Wed, 8 Jul 2009 04:06:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275359/posts It is one of the oddities of the global war on terrorism that while al-Qaeda is almost universally condemned, its Sunni terrorist counterparts in Hamas continue to attract a devoted following. Former president Jimmy Carter annually sings Hamas’s praises, insisting to all who will listen that Western governments must reach out to Gaza’s jihadist rulers. At “peace” demonstrations and on college campuses, banners are waved in honor of the group openly sworn to the destruction of Israel and the extermination of Jews worldwide. All this and more is the subject of Steven Plaut’s devastating new pamphlet, “Hamas: The Terror Elite.”... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275359/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:28:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269189/posts War On Terror: In sight of where the World Trade Center stood, Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard goes on trial. Once again, terror is treated as a law enforcement matter. The Obama administration has learned nothing.It's still a mystery to us why an enemy combatant and mass murderer captured on a foreign battlefield and facing 286 charges for his terrorist activities is entitled to his day in an American civilian court. Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269189/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:25:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2268859/posts The All-American, no-nonsense, loved-by-Democrats-and-Republicans-alike U.S. attorney in Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald, is about the last guy you’d expect to get embroiled in some high-profile media smackdown. But according to reports from the AP and the Chicago Sun-Times, one has already begun. For now, Fitzgerald hasn’t filed suit. But Fitzgerald doesn’t seem happy about portions of a forthcoming book to be published by HarperCollins which reportedly contains unflattering assertions the way in which Fitzgerald handled terrorism cases when he was an assistant U.S. attorney in New York. Wall Street Journal Law Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2268859/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:54:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254511/posts Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) finally told the truth about President Barack Obama's plan to bring Guantanamo detainees into the United States. The New York Times (and others) has Senator Reid on the record: Mr. Reid in his comments, however, was unequivocal in insisting that the terror suspects never reach American shores. “You can’t put them in prison unless you release them,” he said. “We will never allow terrorists to be released in the United States.” Setting aside the 17 Uighurs at Gitmo, think about what Senator Reid just said. Attorney General Holder has stated many of the 240... 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254511/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 08:56:05 GMT