Osama Bin Laden

"Model Prisoner" at Guantanamo, Tortured in the "Dark Prison," Loses Habeas Corpus Petition

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Jordan, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Pakistan, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, Guantanamo Detainees, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, CIA Torture, Judge Ellen Huvelle, Judge Thomas Hogan, Hassan Bin Attash, World News, Osama Bin Laden, Habeas Corpus, Al Qaeda, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Dark Prison, The Guantanamo Files, Musa'ab Al-Madhwani, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Al-Madhwani joins eight other prisoners in a legal netherworld, no longer regarded as "enemy combatants" by the administration, but still detained indefinitely as though they were.

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Afghanistan: The American Experience (New York Review)

The New York Review of Books | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Jihad, Cia, Communist, Nyr, Afghanistan, Washington Post, September 11th, Barack Obama, Woodward, Osama Bin Laden, Soviet Union, New York Review of Books, Afghanistan History, Book Reviews, Afghanistan Book, Books News

Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: Two major powers have struggled for control of Afghanistan over the last few decades, The Soviet Union and the US. Facing ...

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US Swagger Equals Foreign Policy Disaster

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Hans Blix, Obama, Iraq, World, Manouchehr Mottaki, Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Iran, P5+1, Saddam Hussein, Shiites, Iraq War, Iran Nuclear Enrichment, Taliban, Afghanistan, Us, Foreign Policy, Iaea, Politics News
Sharmine Narwani

If Iran offers to swap its low-enriched uranium for higher grade uranium, does the US have the right to dismiss it because it doesn't meet our conditions?

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Slain Al-Qaeda Leader Posthumously Named Employee of the Month

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Andy Borowitz, Cia, Predator Drones, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

In a new videotape broadcast today on Al-Jazeera, terror mastermind Osama bin Laden named fallen terrorist Abu Yahya al-Libi Al-Qaeda's "Employee of the Month" for December.

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Judah the Maccabee's Five Lessons for Barack Obama

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Freedom-Tower-Construction, Kabul-Mayor, Rome, Maccabees, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, President Obama, Kabul, Story of Chanukah, Menorah, Afghanistan Corruption, Story-of-Chanukah, Antiochus, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Chanukah, Greece, Dead-or-Alive, Freedom Tower, Judah Maccabee, Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan-Counterinsurgency, Orin Hatch, Orin Hatch Chanukah Song, Somalia, Two-State Solution, Israel, Hannukah, World News
Aaron Zelinsky

From the story of Chanukah, we see how not to fight a guerrilla insurgency. From the Maccabees, we learn how to rally a people and a nation. Here are Chanukah's five geopolitical lessons.

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McChrystal: Bin Laden Key To Defeating Al Qaida

AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | World

Read More: Mcchrystal, Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden, Taliban, Afghanistan, Osama, General Mcchrystal, Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, World News

WASHINGTON — The general in charge of the war in Afghanistan says capturing Osama bin Laden is the ultimate key to defeating the al-Qaida terror...

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Could Be a Late Night in Partystan

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Obama and Afghanistan, Curfews, Karl Eikenberry, Pakistan, Deadlines, David Petraeus, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Obama Administration, Afghanistan Policy, Troop Withdrawal, Robert Gates, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Zardari, Comedy News
Rick Horowitz

"Daddy, have you seen the car keys?" "On the table near the door -- you're going already?" "I'm late -- I told Marisa I'd pick her up on the way ...

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No to Afghanistan? But Didn't We Say...?

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Anti-War Democrats, George Bush, Obama and Afghanistan, Democrats and Iraq, George W. Bush, Obama and Iraq, Al-Qaeda, George Bush and Iraq, Democrats and Afghanistran, Obama and Pakistan, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Obama Administration, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

Don't pretend that we haven't spent these past years shouting "Afghanistan! Afghanistan!" at every opportunity. And now that there's a president who's listened, who's reluctantly reached the very same conclusion, we say -- "Nevermind"?

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US: Bin Laden Sometimes Slips Into Afghanistan

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 12.08.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Bin Laden, James Jones, Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden, World News

WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden may periodically slip back into Afghanistan from his remote hideout in neighboring Pakistan, a seni...

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No Good Osama bin Laden Intelligence In Years, Says Robert Gates

AP | Posted 12.06.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism, 9/11, Afpak, Saudi Arabia, Robert Gates, Osama Bin Laden, World News

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden...

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Barack Obama's War: 10 Key Things To Know

William Bradley | Posted 12.04.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaeda, Nato, Pakistan, Taliban, Afghanistan, Iraq, Soviet Union, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Richard Nixon, Britain, World News
William Bradley

It's Barack Obama's war now -- a war in which the Nobel Peace Prize-winner has placed himself at the helm of the largest military force ever sent to Afghanistan. Here are some key things to know.

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Yousaf Raza Gilani, Pakistan PM, Says Bin Laden Not In Pakistan

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER and GREGORY KATZ | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Gilani, Yousaf Raza Gilani, Osama Bin Laden Pakistan, Pakistan, Bin Laden, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Osama Bin Laden, World News

LONDON — Pakistan's prime minister on Thursday defended his country's efforts in fighting terrorism, saying he didn't believe Osama bin Laden wa...

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9/11? Yes, 9/11.

Oliver Willis | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military, Iraq, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Obama Afghanistan, Obama Afghanistan Troop Increase, Obama West Point Speech, December 7 1941, Politics News
Oliver Willis

If you don't support increasing the amount of troops, that is a fine and patriotic position to have, but folks on the Left have got to quit rewriting history by pretending Obama is somehow suddenly a hawk on Afghanistan.

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Obama To Bring Troops Home!

Tom Gregory | Posted 12.03.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Bush, Troops, Political Satire, Afghanistan Surge, Obama 2012, Osama Bin Laden, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan War, Tommy Franks, Iraq War, Afghanistan, World Trade Center, Obama Afghanistan, Obama Speech, Presidential Address, West Point, Comedy News
Tom Gregory

Obama announced that he will deploy 30,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan, promising to bring them home just in time to vote in the next presidential election.

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Afghanistan -- the Sisyphus War

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan Troops, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Obama Afghanistan Troop Increase, Bil Clinton, Sisyphus, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

As Albert Camus once said, "The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back o...

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Obama at West Point

Michael Brenner | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, 9/11, Iraq, Tommy Franks, West Point, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Tora Bora, Politics News
Michael Brenner

After the Bush years of outright lies and systematic deception, we now have Obama plumbing new depths as he tortures the very language itself. 1984 here we are.

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Time for Strategic Stamina

Will Marshall | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Democrats, Michael Moore, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Af-Pak, Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, War, Cold War, Democrats, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Will Marshall

President Obama now has a difficult sales job to perform. In essence, his message will be: we need to get in deeper to get out of Afghanistan sooner. He's right.

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Rep. Hinchey: Bush Administration 'Intentionally Let bin Laden Get Away' In Order To Justify Iraq War

Posted 11.30.2009 | New York

Read More: David Shuster, Maurice Hinchey Video, Maurice Hinchey, Iraq War, Osama Bin Laden, War in Iraq, George W. Bush, New York News

On Monday afternoon, Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-New York) told MSNBC host David Shuster that the Bush administration "intentionally let bin Laden get awa...

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Decades Are Only "From Hell" If We Make Them

Will Bunch | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Time Magazine, Ronald Reagan, Decades, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, 9/11, 2000s, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, Peak Oil, Financial Crisis, Jimmy Carter, Hurricane Katrina, 1970s, Torture, Politics News
Will Bunch

In the 2010s, I don't think we can afford to sit around watching CNBC and waiting for the Decade Gods to automatically turn everything green as some sort of karmic balance for the awfulness of the 2000s.

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Senate Report: Bin Laden Was 'Within Our Grasp' In 2001

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan War, Bush, Rumsfeld, US Military, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Pakistan, 9/11, Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Afghan War, John Kerry, Military, George W. Bush, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld, Tora Bora, World News

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made th...

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Increasing Number Of Web Sites Spread Al-Qaida's Message In English

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR and LEE KEATH | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Internet, NEFA Foundation, Evan Kohlmann, Al Qaida, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Abdulmanam Almushawah, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, World News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate ...

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Omar Bin Laden: Why I Refused To Follow In My Father's Footsteps

Guardian | Mark Tran | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: Bin Laden, Omar Bin Laden, Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, Osama, Osama Bin Laden Son, World News

Having a famous father is not always easy: the burden of expectation can weigh heavily on young shoulders. So what to do when your surname is Bin Lade...

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We Should Prepare For Osama Bin Laden Trial: Op-Ed

Politico | JEREMY D. MAYER | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Osama Bin Laden, Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden Capture, Osama Bin Laden Trial, World News

Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to put five of the worst suspected Al Qaeda operatives on trial in New York City for the Sept. 11 terror atta...

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Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith

Jackson Williams | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Age of Turbulence, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, Kurdistan, Exxon-Mobil, Iraq, Joe Biden, Osama Bin Laden, Ray Hunt, Hunt Oil, Kuwait, John Kerry, Kurds, Desert Storm, Oil, New York Times, Afghanistan, Iraqi Oil, Alan Greenspan, Peter Galbraith, Politics News
Jackson Williams

Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.

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Islamist Terrorists Take Page From US Hate Groups' Internet PlayBook

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Jihadists, Al-Qaeda, White Supremacists, Pakistan, Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, Internet, Tom Metzger, Hate Groups, Youtube, Afpak, Myspace, War on Terrorism, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Islamist terrorist arrests across this country since last January run the gamut. White and black, young and middle-aged, single and married, homegrown and foreign born, and legal and illegal immigrants.

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