Us Military Kills Osama

Sohaib Athar, an IT consultant, became an overnight sensation and was the subject of news stories after he inadvertently live-blogged one the biggest events in history: the US military operation that killed notorious terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

Al-Qaeda's slain chief Osama bin Laden had shifted to Afghanistan to supervise a plot to assassinate Pakistan's former premier Benazir Bhutto and then military dictator Pervez Musharraf, a media report said today.

Pakistan's top civilian and military leadership knew about Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's presence in the country much before the US Navy SEALs killed him in a raid in 2011, the then defence minister of Pakistan has claimed.

The former US Navy Seal who claims to be the soldier who fired the shots that killed Osama Bin Laden is being investigated for possibly leaking classified information, the US military confirmed on Tuesday.

A newly-released email shows that 11 days after the killing of terror leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, the US military's top special operations officer ordered subordinates to destroy any photographs of the al Qaeda founder's corpse or turn them over to the CIA.

A drone strike on a wedding convoy in Yemen killed 17 people, mostly civilians, medical and security sources said on Friday, adding grist to mounting criticism of the US drone war.

The US has quietly decided to release more than $1.6 billion in military and economic aid to Pakistan that was suspended when relations between the two countries disintegrated over the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden and deadly US airstrikes against Pakistani soldiers.

US Navy SEALs were able to sneak into Pakistan covertly to kill Osama bin Laden because of advanced American stealth technology and the Pakistani military's obsession with India.

Calling it "the hononr of my life," Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said farewell to the US military on Friday, capping a venerated public service career that spanned four decades and included stints as a lawmaker, a top White House official and the spy chief who oversaw the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday constituted a nine-judge bench to examine the report of a judicial commission that probed a mysterious memo seeking US help to prevent a feared military coup here after the killing of Osama bin Laden last year.

A US court has refused to release photos and videos from the American military raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last year.

Pakistan's powerful military did not plan a coup after the US raid in Abottabad that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in May last year, former ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha has said.

Pakistan's former envoy to the US Husain Haqqani was on Monday permitted to travel abroad by the Supreme Court, which is probing a memo sent to Washington saying President Asif Ali Zardari had feared a military takeover in the wake of Osama bin Laden's killing last year.

Assailants fired nine rockets at Pakistan's top military academy on Friday, damaging its outer wall near the compound where Osama bin Laden was shot dead, officials said. No one was hurt in the pre-dawn attack but three rockets damaged the outer wall of the Pakistan academy, some 500 metres (yards) from where US Navy SEALs killed the Al-Qaeda lead...

Former US National Security Advisor Jim Jones has said that he was the person who handed over a secret memorandum purportedly from Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to the US that warned of and sought assistance against a possible military takeover after Osama bin Laden was killed in May.

Sohaib Athar, an IT consultant, became an overnight sensation and was the subject of news stories after he inadvertently live-blogged one the biggest events in history: the US military operation that killed notorious terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

Al-Qaeda's slain chief Osama bin Laden had shifted to Afghanistan to supervise a plot to assassinate Pakistan's former premier Benazir Bhutto and then military dictator Pervez Musharraf, a media report said today.

Pakistan's top civilian and military leadership knew about Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's presence in the country much before the US Navy SEALs killed him in a raid in 2011, the then defence minister of Pakistan has claimed.

The former US Navy Seal who claims to be the soldier who fired the shots that killed Osama Bin Laden is being investigated for possibly leaking classified information, the US military confirmed on Tuesday.

A newly-released email shows that 11 days after the killing of terror leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, the US military's top special operations officer ordered subordinates to destroy any photographs of the al Qaeda founder's corpse or turn them over to the CIA.

A drone strike on a wedding convoy in Yemen killed 17 people, mostly civilians, medical and security sources said on Friday, adding grist to mounting criticism of the US drone war.

The US has quietly decided to release more than $1.6 billion in military and economic aid to Pakistan that was suspended when relations between the two countries disintegrated over the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden and deadly US airstrikes against Pakistani soldiers.

US Navy SEALs were able to sneak into Pakistan covertly to kill Osama bin Laden because of advanced American stealth technology and the Pakistani military's obsession with India.

Calling it "the hononr of my life," Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said farewell to the US military on Friday, capping a venerated public service career that spanned four decades and included stints as a lawmaker, a top White House official and the spy chief who oversaw the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday constituted a nine-judge bench to examine the report of a judicial commission that probed a mysterious memo seeking US help to prevent a feared military coup here after the killing of Osama bin Laden last year.

A US court has refused to release photos and videos from the American military raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last year.

Pakistan's powerful military did not plan a coup after the US raid in Abottabad that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in May last year, former ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha has said.

Pakistan's former envoy to the US Husain Haqqani was on Monday permitted to travel abroad by the Supreme Court, which is probing a memo sent to Washington saying President Asif Ali Zardari had feared a military takeover in the wake of Osama bin Laden's killing last year.

Assailants fired nine rockets at Pakistan's top military academy on Friday, damaging its outer wall near the compound where Osama bin Laden was shot dead, officials said. No one was hurt in the pre-dawn attack but three rockets damaged the outer wall of the Pakistan academy, some 500 metres (yards) from where US Navy SEALs killed the Al-Qaeda lead...

Former US National Security Advisor Jim Jones has said that he was the person who handed over a secret memorandum purportedly from Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to the US that warned of and sought assistance against a possible military takeover after Osama bin Laden was killed in May.