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SEAL book raises questions about bin Laden’s death

Last updated Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 9:59am

WASHINGTON — A firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him.

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Dr. Shakil Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad.

Pakistani who helped U.S. find bin Laden sentenced for treason

Riaz Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 10:09am

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was convicted of high treason Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington.

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US uses bin Laden letters to degrade al-Qaida

Calvin Woodward, Matt Apuzzo The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 4:40pm

WASHINGTON -- Letters from Osama bin Laden's last hideaway, released by U.S. officials intent on discrediting his terror organization, portray a network weak, inept and under siege -- and its leader seemingly near wit's end about the passing of his global jihad's glory days.

The documents, published online Thursday, are a small sample of those seized during the U.S. raid on bin Laden's Pakistan compound in which he was killed a year ago. By no accident, they show al-Qaida at its worst. The raid has become the signature national security moment of Barack Obama's presidency and one he is eager to emphasize in his re-election campaign.

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Bin Laden apparently sought operative with Mexican passport

Brian Bennett McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 3:08pm

WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden instructed his deputies to recruit an operative with a valid Mexican passport who could cross illegally into the United States, said a former U.S. official familiar with the trove of letters and notes seized last year from the terrorist leader's compound.

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1 year after bin Laden killed, Pakistan's role still unclear

Chris Brummitt, Zarar Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 3:46pm

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan -- One year since U.S. commandos flew into this Pakistani army town and killed Osama bin Laden, Islamabad has failed to answer tough questions over whether its security forces were protecting the world's most wanted terrorist.

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Pakistani women walk past the house where Osama bin Laden's family are being detained in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday, April 2, 2012, in Islamabad, Pakistan. The lawyer for Osama bin Laden's family says a Pakistani court has convicted his three widows and two of his daughters on charges of illegally living in Pakistan and sentenced them to 45 days in prison. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Bin Laden's relatives get short prison sentence

Zabar Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 9:25am

ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani court on Monday convicted Osama bin Laden's three widows and two of his daughters of illegally entering and living in the country and sentenced them to 45 days in prison, with credit for time served, their lawyer said.

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In this photo taken Nov. 18, 2011, a guesthouse is seen inside Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Osama bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided, amid wives riven by suspicions. On the top floor, sharing his bedroom, was his youngest wife and favorite. The trouble came when his eldest wife showed up and moved into the bedroom on the floor below. (AP Photo/Shaukat Qadir)

In bin Laden's lair, his wives split by suspicions

Kathy Gannon The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 10:22am

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- Osama bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided, amid wives riven by suspicions. On the top floor, sharing his bedroom, was his youngest wife and favorite. The trouble came when his eldest wife showed up and moved into the bedroom on the floor below.

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FILE - This undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan and released by the U.S. Department of Defense shows a man identified by the U.S. government as Osama Bin Laden in front of a television. Bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided, amid wives riven by suspicions. On the top floor, sharing his bedroom, was his youngest wife and favorite. The trouble came when his eldest wife showed up and moved into the bedroom on the floor below (AP Photo/Department of Defense, File)

Pakistan charges bin Laden's wives

Munir Ahmed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 10:55am

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan has charged Osama bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering and living in the country, the interior minister said Thursday.

The three women have been in Pakistani detention since May last year, when U.S. commandos raided the house where they, bin Laden and several of their children were staying. The commandos shot and killed bin Laden, and then buried his body at sea.

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FILE - In this May 5, 2011 file photo, local residents and media are seen outside the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Local residents say Pakistan has started to demolish the compound in the northwest city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by U.S. commandos. Two residents say the government brought in three mechanized backhoes Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, and began destroying the tall outer walls of the compound after sunset. They set up floodlights to carry out the work. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed, File)

Osama bin Laden's Pakistan home reduced to rubble

Anjum Naveed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 10:28am

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani authorities have reduced the house where Osama bin Laden lived for years before he was killed by U.S. commandos to rubble, destroying a concrete symbol of the country's association with one of the world's most reviled men.

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(MOHAMMAD ZUBAIR/The Associated Press) a photo taken by a local resident, shows the wreckage of a helicopter next to the wall of the compound where according to officials, Osama bin Laden was shot and killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The U.S. military is denouncing a former Navy SEAL’s book that claims to describe the “real” version of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, taken from alleged eyewitness accounts. Laden with conspiracy theories and attacks on the White House, Chuck Pfarrer’s “SEAL Target Geronimo” claims the SEAL team shot bin Laden within 90 seconds of arriving at his Pakistan hideout.

Spec-Ops Command: SEAL raid book ‘a lie’

Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 8:36am

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is denouncing a former Navy SEAL’s book that claims to describe the “real” version of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

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(EVAN VUCCI/The Associated Press) President Barack Obama leaves after speaking in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, where he declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year’s end.

Obama’s foreign successes may help little in 2012

Charles Babington The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 4:22pm

WASHINGTON — By declaring the Iraq war over, President Barack Obama scored what his allies see as a fourth big foreign policy success in six months, starting with Osama bin Laden’s killing.

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CIA's vaccine ruse in Pakistan carries fallout

Alex Rodriguez Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, October 7, 2011 - 5:09pm

ISLAMABAD -- A phony vaccination campaign orchestrated by the CIA to help find and kill Osama bin Laden is undercutting Western-backed immunization drives against polio and other diseases, and now has the Pakistani doctor involved in the program possibly facing treason charges.

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Pakistan warns of plot to free bin Laden's wives

Ashraf Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 8:40am

KARACHI -- Pakistan is warning that the Taliban are plotting to secure the freedom of Osama bin Laden's wives and children by kidnapping a high-ranking government official and then offering to exchange him or her for the slain terror chief's family.

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Supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamaat-u-Dawa burn a US flag during a rally to condemn American CIA contractor Raymond Allen Davis, who shot dead two Pakistanis, in Lahore, Pakistan. In the aftermath of the secret U.S. raid to kill Osama bin Laden, Pakistani officials want a detailed agreement spelling out U.S. rules of engagement inside Pakistan, officials in both countries say, but Washington's refusal to sign a binding document threatens to create another point of friction in the long-troubled relationship. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary, File)

Doctor who helped CIA barred from leaving Pakistan

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 7:07am

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been barred from leaving Pakistan, a commission investigating the killing of the al-Qaida leader said Tuesday.

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In this June 24, 2011 photo, Pakistani student supporters of right-wing student union Jamiat rally at the Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan. As questions swirl in Pakistan about the covert U.S. raid that Killed Osama bin Laden, posters emblazoned with images of the burning World Trade Center towers have appeared at the prestigious university advertising a writing contest to glorify the slain al-Qaida chief. The Banner reads "promote modest, pro-islam and segregated culture for male and female students in the Punjab University." (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan college holds contest to praise bin Laden

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Last updated Friday, July 1, 2011 - 2:41pm

LAHORE, Pakistan -- Two months after the covert U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, posters emblazoned with images of the burning World Trade Center towers appeared at the country's largest university advertising a literary contest to glorify the slain al-Qaida chief.

The poem and essay competition at the prestigious Punjab University shows the footholds of hard-line Islamists on college campuses and growing efforts to raise their profile and influence even in the relatively cosmopolitan atmosphere of Pakistan's culture capital, Lahore.

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