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New Book Contradicts Official Story of bin Laden Raid

SEAL team reportedly angry at Obama

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden didn’t die after a 45-minute gunfight, according to a new book—he died 90 seconds into the raid, according to SEAL Target Geronimo. The new book is by former SEAL Team Six leader Chuck Pfarrer, who says he interviewed the team that killed bin Laden. The...

Pakistan May Execute Doc Who Helped Find bin Laden

Shakil Afridi should be charged with high treason, commission decides

(Newser) - The doctor who ran the fake vaccination scheme that helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden should be charged with high treason, an inquiry in Pakistan has recommended. If convicted, Shakil Afridi could be executed. The doctor was arrested by Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence agency a few weeks after the...

CIA's bin Laden Vaccine Hoax Sparks Anger

Some fear it will deter Pakistanis from getting kids vaccinated

(Newser) - The CIA is experiencing quite the backlash over the fake vaccination program they used to try to get DNA from Osama bin Laden’s children. International health advocates are furious, because they believe the operation will foster paranoia about vaccination programs, particularly in already hard-to-vaccinate places like Pakistan, Politico reports....

CIA Ran Phony Vaccination Scheme to Find bin Laden

Pakistani doctor busted for his role in plan

(Newser) - Cunning minds at the CIA devised a phony vaccination program in an effort to uncover Osama bin Laden's hiding place, a Guardian investigation has found. A regional health official was recruited to organize the vaccination drive in Abbottabad, beginning the program in a poorer part of town to make...

Pakistan Bars bin Laden Family From Leaving

Commission doesn't want wives, children repatriated

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden's three widows and six children are still in Pakistan, and the country has now decided to bar them from leaving. Initially, Pakistan intended to repatriate the women to their countries of birth, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. But an independent commission investigating the US raid that killed...

Meet the Agent Who Found bin Laden

The story of the unsung CIA man who hunted the leader for a decade

(Newser) - By now, you’ve seen the photo of Obama administration brass awaiting word of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. What you haven’t seen is the CIA agent standing just outside the frame, a man the AP identifies only as “John.” He spent years doggedly...

Pakistan Busts CIA's bin Laden Informants

Army major among arrested informants who aided US: NYT

(Newser) - The reward for at least five Pakistanis for helping the CIA find terror boss Osama bin Laden was to be arrested by their nation's military spy agency. The New York Times reports that those busted include a man who owned a safe house in Abbottabad from which CIA agents...

Pakistan Lets CIA Scour bin Laden House

Team will get its first up-close look at the place

(Newser) - Pakistan has given the CIA its blessing to search Osama bin Laden’s compound for anything American forces may have missed during their clandestine night raid. An agency forensics team is expected to land in Abbottabad in a matter of days, armed with high-tech equipment designed to sniff out anything...

Bin Laden Wanted to Hit Oil Tankers

Abbottabad documents show he wanted to spike oil prices

(Newser) - When Osama bin Laden wasn't maybe watching porn, he was apparently plotting his next devastating attack. Documents pulled from bin Laden's Abbottabad compound indicate that the terror leader next was planning to hijack oil tankers and blow them up at sea, reports the AP —an attempt he...

New Drones Stalked bin Laden for Months

Flying at a high altitude, they were able to evade radar

(Newser) - For months prior to the May 2 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the CIA was flying dozens of secret missions in Pakistani airspace using a new stealth drone to monitor his compound. The sophisticated aircraft, designed to fly at high altitudes, evaded radar detection and went beyond the bounds...

Pakistan to Hand Over Stealth Chopper Tail

...which means China won't get to see it

(Newser) - It looks like China won't get its coveted peek at the super-secret helicopter that crashed outside of Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound. John Kerry got Pakistan to agree to hand over the tail section to the US during yesterday's meeting with Pakistani officials. Kerry told reporters "...

Porn Found in Osama's Compound

Reuters calls the stash of pornographic videos 'extensive'

(Newser) - It looks like the Navy SEALs checked under the mattress: A cache of pornographic videos was found at Osama bin Laden's compound, officials tell Reuters , which calls the collection "fairly extensive." It's not clear whether bin Laden was the one who acquired or watched the videos,...

Bin Laden Compound Debuts in Video Games

New level in 'Counter-Strike: Source' lets you roam Abbottabad

(Newser) - Wish you could have been there for the raid of Osama bin Laden's hideout? Now you can—virtually, anyway. An independent developer has released a level for the popular first-person shooter video game "Counter-Strike: Source" that is based on photographs of the Abbottabad compound. "I can see...

Bin Laden Had 'Herbal Viagra'

Might not have been his, but was in the compound

(Newser) - Somebody inside Osama bin Laden's compound was using a drug known as "herbal Viagra." “The caution is, we don’t know who used what,” a pharmacist tells MSNBC, but Avena syrup—which is marketed as a natural aphrodisiac—is on the list of medications pulled...

Videos Show Osama Watched Himself on TV

Pentagon releases video of al-Qaeda leader in compound

(Newser) - Videos seized by Navy SEALs show Osama bin Laden inside his hideout, watching himself on television and rehearsing for terrorist propaganda videos. The videos were released by the Pentagon as further proof that US forces killed the world's most wanted terrorist this week. One shows bin Laden, his unkempt...

In bin Laden Compound, US Watched 'the Pacer'

Bob Woodward fleshes out details of Osama bin Laden takedown

(Newser) - A mundane phone call led to the downfall of the world's most elusive terrorist: “I’m back with the people I was with before," Osama bin Laden's courier told a friend as US ears perked up. Bob Woodward fleshes out the takedown in today's Washington ...

Bin Laden Home Videos to Be Released

Data recovered shows al-Qaeda No. 1 much more active than thought

(Newser) - Among the trove of information pulled from the Abbottabad compound where Osama bin Laden was killed are home videos of the al-Qaeda honcho, reports the AP. The tapes, which show him strolling around the compound, are expected to be released today along with previously unreleased propaganda tapes. Sources tell the...

So How Far Could bin Laden Have Gotten on 500 Euros?

Maybe to Taiwan, if he spent wisely

(Newser) - Had Osama bin Laden somehow managed to elude the Navy SEALs, he would have escaped wearing pajamas that reportedly had two phone numbers and 500 euros sewn into them . So how far could he have gotten with that much cash? Jeremy Singer-Vine tackles the $725 question for Slate's Explainer...

Al-Qaeda Planned 9/11/11 Rail Attacks

Osama bin Laden plotted terror attacks from hideout, seized files reveal

(Newser) - Al-Qaeda leaders discussed attacking America's rail network on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, according to American officials who have seen the first batch of documents from Osama bin Laden's hideout. The documents reveal that bin Laden, who many experts believed had become merely an inspirational...

Osama &#39;Never Left Two Rooms in Compound&#39;
 Osama 'Never 
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3 widows grilled
May 6, 2011 5:09 AM CDT

Osama 'Never Left Two Rooms in Compound'

Pakistanis interrogating women, children

(Newser) - Three of the four women taken into custody after the US raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout are Mrs. bin Ladens and all three widows are undergoing "firm but nonviolent" questioning, Pakistani intelligence officials tell ABC News . One of the wives, Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, has told interrogators that...

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