Bin Laden son-in-law due in New York court
Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and former spokesman was due back in a US federal court in New York Monday, a month after he pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges.
Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and former spokesman was due back in a US federal court in New York Monday, a month after he pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges.
The New York City medical examiner’s office says more possible pieces of human remains have been found during the sifting of newly uncovered debris from the site of the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the charismatic al-Qaida spokesman, fundraiser and son-in-law to Osama bin Laden, is likely to have a vast trove of knowledge about the terror network’s central command but not much useful information about current threats or plots, intelligence officials and other experts say.
A senior al-Qaida leader and member of Osama bin Laden’s inner circle was charged Thursday with conspiring to kill Americans in his role as the terror network’s top propagandist who lauded the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — and warned there would be more.
The United Nations has finally removed Osama bin Laden from the list of al-Qaeda members subject to UN sanctions, nearly two years after he was killed by US commandos in Pakistan.
Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Saturday said that his country regarded its relations with the United States as “very important” and that Pakistan valued it as a major development partner.
Americans mark the 11th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001 on Tuesday with relatively low key ceremonies that reflect a gradual dampening of passions around the emotional day.
Osama bin Laden’s former cook and driver Ibrahim al-Qosi returned to his native Sudan on Wednesday after more than a decade of imprisonment at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Osama bin Laden spent all his personal wealth on jihad, considering meat and electricity as luxuries so he could save his money to help fund terror attacks, according to recollections from his deputy and successor posted online late Saturday.
Al-Qaida’s leader has released a 17-minute audio address aimed at swaying public opinion against Yemen’s new president, calling him a US agent and a traitor.
During his last months holed up in a villa in Pakistan, one of the concerns on Osama bin Laden’s mind was image control: Al-Qaida’s branches and allies were making the terror network look bad in the eyes of the Islamic world.
President Barack Obama said Wednesday a “time of war” was ending in a moment of American renewal, on a secret trip to Afghanistan a year after ordering the death of Osama bin Laden.
Pakistan was in a state of high alert Wednesday over fears terrorists could mark the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s killing by American Navy SEALs with revenge attacks.
