Arabtoday - Tag

Osama bin Laden

Navy SEAL who wrote Bin Laden raid book

Kuwait City - Arab Today

The former Navy SEAL who wrote a book about his role in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden will pay the government more than $6.6 million for violating non-disclosure agreements and publishing without getting the document cleared by the Defense Department, according to federal court documents. Matt Bissonnette, who wrote "No Easy Day" under the pseudonym Mark Owen, willRead more

CIA releases vast Bin Laden archive seized in compound

Washington - Arab Today

The CIA on Wednesday released a vast archive of intimate Al-Qaeda documents, including Osama Bin-Laden's handwritten diary, seized in the deadly 2011 raid on his Pakistani compound. The huge trove includes images of diary pages left by the Saudi-born global extremist leader and a wedding video that includes the first public images of his son Hamza as an adult. Controversially,Read more

Hamza bin Laden: the heir to Al-Qaeda?

Paris - AFP

A photo montage published by Al-Qaeda to mark the 16th anniversary of 9/11 shows the face of Osama bin Laden in the flames of the Twin Towers. At his side is his son Hamza, the "crown prince of jihad". The young man, now 28, has appeared since childhood in the propaganda network founded by his father. And now, some officialsRead more

4 Killed in Pakistan Police Station Bombing

Peshawar - BNA

A Taliban suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden truck into a police station in Peshawar Wednesday, flattening the three-storey building and killing four people. Pakistan''s Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the northwest, their fourth in reprisal for the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US commandos north of Islamabad on May 2. "At least four people includingRead more

US, EU urge end to Darfur fighting

Khartoum - Arab Today

The US and key world powers have urged Khartoum and a rebel group to end a renewed bout of fighting that has erupted in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur after months of relative calm. The fighting in East and North Darfur states comes just weeks before Washington formally decides on whether to lift decades old trade sanctions imposed on Khartoum. The US,Read more

Al Qaeda confirms senior leader killed in Syria drone strike

Beirut - Arab Today

Al Qaeda’s second-in-command has been killed in a drone strike, the terror group confirmed on Thursday. Abu Khayr Al Masri, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, "was killed during a Crusader drone strike" in Syria, Al Qaeda said in a statement issued by its Maghreb and Yemen branches. It also expressed its condolences to Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahiri.Read more

Osama Bin Laden worried that Iran put tracking chip in sons

WASHINGTON - Arab Today

Secluded in his hideaway in Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden suspected Iranian officials might implant tracking devices in his sons, according to a document released Thursday in a batch of materials seized in a 2011 raid that killed the Al-Qaeda leader. “If they inject you with a shot, this shot might be loaded with a tiny chip,” Bin Laden wrote inRead more

Obama releases more Bin Laden documents

Washington - Arab Today

In its final hours, the Obama administration on Thursday released the last of three installments of documents belonging to Osama bin Laden that were seized in a 2011 raid that killed the Al-Qaida leader in his secret compound. Tracking down and killing the man behind the 2001 terrorist attacks on America is one of President Barack Obama's greatest accomplishments. IntelligenceRead more