Osama Had Support In Pakistan

• Iran's unlikely Al Qaeda ties: fluid, murky and deteriorating

  When Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri spoke in an audio message broadcast to supporters earlier this month, he had harsh words for Iran. Its true face, he said, had been unmasked by its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against fighters loyal to Al Qaeda.

• Osama had support system in Pakistan: Donilon

  Osama bin Laden had some sort of "support mechanism" while operating out of Pakistan for six years which raises a lot of questions, a top White House official has said."The fact is that Osama bin Laden operated out of Abbottabad, Pakistan for six years or so, in an operational role, leading Al Qaeda, in a town 35 miles from Islamabad. It is clear t...

• 'Complacent' Osama didn't have escape plan: Report

  With a "support network" in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden had become "complacent" and kept staying at one location for the past several years without any ready escape plan, a media report said today.Nearly two weeks after the world's most wanted terrorist was killed in Abbottabad, US officials say that several key indicators bolster their initial impre...

• 'Getting our man outweighed risks of raid': Obama

  US President Barack Obama ordered the commando raid that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after deciding the risks were outweighed by the possibility "of us finally getting our man" following a decade of frustration, he said in a Sunday broadcast interview.The helicopter raid "was the longest 40 minutes of my life," Obama told CBS'