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Moral ambivalence in the midst of darkness
OH, what a sad, heavy and dark week! The COVID-19 pandemic has eventually stamped its indelible wound on our nation. It has been with us since the first quarter of last year, though. But it was hittin...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:30hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mnangagwa in Osama bin Laden's WhatsApp Group, says Jonathan Moyo
EXILED former Higher education minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, has scorned President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nomination among the 100 most influential people in the world by Times magazine.Acco...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 12:13hrs | | by staff reporter
UK special forces hunt Osama Bin Laden's son in 'kill or capture' mission
Osama bin Laden's son is being hunted in a "kill or capture" mission by UK special forces.Hamza bin Laden, 28, has followed in his evil dad's footsteps to head terror group al-Qaeda .N...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Bin Laden's son vows revenge
NEW YORK - The son of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened revenge against the United States for assassinating his father, according to an audio message posted online.Hamza...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 06:53hrs | | by agencies
Bin Laden relatives killed in UK
London - Members of Osama Bin Laden's family were among the victims in the crash of a private jet in Britain, the Saudi embassy in London said Saturday in a message of condolences.Four people ...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 15:39hrs | | by Agencies
Obama lied over Osama bin Laden's death
A top journalist has claimed that Barack Obama lied over Osama bin Laden's death to make himself look better.Pulitzer prize-winning Seymour Hersh said that the facts surrounding the Taliban l...Published: 11 May 2015 at 19:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Former ISI head Lt. Gen. Asad Durrani says Pakistan probably harboured Osama Bin Laden
Lt. General Asad Durrani (retd), the former head of Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, has told Al Jazeera's Head to Head that Pakistan most likely sheltered Osama Bin Laden in the years leading up t...Published: 12 Feb 2015 at 10:38hrs | 12 | by Al Jazeera
Al-Qaeda Africa wing dreams global jihad but acts local
Washington - Armed extremist groups in North and West Africa may have pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda's vision of global jihad, but they act independently of its core command and have yet to make good ...Published: 16 Dec 2013 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Osama bin Laden raid guided from space
Navy SEALS who cornered and killed Osama bin Laden in his Pakistan compound were guided from SPACE by a fleet of satellites, according to top secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden.The file...Published: 31 Aug 2013 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff Report
Osama bin Laden was pulled over for speeding and let go
Osama bin Laden could have been captured a few months after 9/11 - if a dozy cop had recognised him.The world's most wanted man was pulled over for speeding by a traffic policeman.But...Published: 09 Jul 2013 at 10:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai - meeting fate's malignancy
Once upon a time there lived a thoughtful Roman called Boethius. Known for his discourse on Fate's role in the Universe, this Roman scholar is credited with developing the idea of "fortune's wheel", a...Published: 27 Apr 2013 at 06:15hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Soldier who shot, killed Osama bin Laden breaks his silence
The special forces soldier who shot and killed Osama bin Laden has broken his silence to tell of the moment he watched the al-Qaeda leader take his last breath.The Navy SEAL, whose identity re...Published: 11 Feb 2013 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Underwear Plane Bomb Plot Foiled By US
An al Qaeda plot to blow up a US-bound aircraft using an underwear bomb has been foiled, the SkyNews reported yesterday.The plan, around the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden's killing by ...Published: 08 May 2012 at 01:34hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Right hammers Obama for playing politics with anniversary of bin Laden's death
As the US President Barack Obama embraces the killing of Osama bin Laden as a campaign theme, the right is hammering him for playing politics with the approaching one-year anniversary of the terrorist...Published: 29 Apr 2012 at 00:48hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Osama bin Laden had ordered his followers to attack Obama's aircraft: Reports
Washington - Before his death, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had ordered his followers in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Barack Obama, the Washington Post reported on F...Published: 17 Mar 2012 at 04:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Osama bin Laden urged his kids to go live in the West and get good education
SLAIN Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden urged his children to go live in the West, according to his brother-in-law.Zakaria al-Sadah, the brother of bin Laden's Yemeni fifth wife Amal, told Brita...Published: 12 Feb 2012 at 17:10hrs | | by AFP
Pakistani doctor provided key information on Osama bin Laden
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has acknowledged publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin ...Published: 28 Jan 2012 at 16:18hrs | | by Moyo Roy
The Arab stolen revolution
After Israel and its Western backers defeated Arab nationalism in 1967, a solicitous Nizar Qabbani emotionally called for the rekindling of the Arab fighting spirit.He wrote in a poem:...Published: 09 Jan 2012 at 04:59hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Libya: Imperial conquest and control
"Age: approximately forty years.Race: white.Height: approximately 5' 9" . . . The following injuries were noted in the general examination; 1. Bullet wound in the left clavicular reg...Published: 30 Oct 2011 at 08:05hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
The murderous western touch
So now Muammar Gaddafi has died; apparently after being incapacitated by the fire power of US drones and French gunship bombers, and left to face a very primitively ruthless death at the hands of the ...Published: 27 Oct 2011 at 05:24hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Osama bin Laden's family company to build a 1km tall tower in Saudi Arabia
Riyadh - Kingdom Holding Co, the investment firm headed by the billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, said it has signed a $1.2 billion deal with the Binladen Group to build the 1,000-metre Kingdom T...Published: 02 Aug 2011 at 19:37hrs | | by Sapa
US diver and treasure hunter hopes to find Osama bin Laden
Los Angeles - A California diver and treasure hunter hopes to find evidence for the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by scanning the Arabian Sea with sonar."I am serious about this, I...Published: 15 Jun 2011 at 08:55hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Muslims will destroy US: Bin Laden's No 2
Cairo - Osama bin Laden's deputy warned on Wednesday that America faces not individual terrorists or groups but an international community of Muslims that seek to destroy it and its allies. He was de...Published: 09 Jun 2011 at 14:37hrs | | by .
Bin Laden's trusted confidante identified
The courier who led US intelligence to Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan hailed from the Swat Valley, a one-time stronghold of militant Taliban fighters, according to Pakistani officials.T...Published: 02 Jun 2011 at 20:13hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Latest Osama bin Laden videos: Official
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Protests against killing of Bin Laden STOPPED!
GAZA - Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas on Saturday broke up a Salafist protest against the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in a US raid in Pakistan th...Published: 07 May 2011 at 20:13hrs | | by Moyo Roy
US releases videos of Osama bin Laden: Official
The US on Saturday made public five videos seized during the raid at the slain Osama bin Laden's mansion in Abbottabad in Pakistan which officials said was infact an active command and control centre...Published: 07 May 2011 at 17:07hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Al-Qaeda declares death curse on US as they confirm Osama bin Laden death
In a statement dated Tuesday, Al-Qaeda confirmed that Bin Laden was dead, disappointing conspiracy theorists who refuse to believe he has been killed. Al-Qaeda has vowed to carry out revenge attacks o...Published: 07 May 2011 at 11:16hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Al-Qaeda to release bin Laden tape 'soon'
Dubai - Al-Qaeda said it will soon release an audiotape of its leader Osama bin Laden that was recorded a week before he was killed by US commandos in Pakistan, US monitoring group SITE Intelligence ...Published: 06 May 2011 at 14:06hrs | | by Nare
Al Qaeda confirms Osama bin Laden's death
Al-Qaeda confirmed the death of its leader Osama bin Laden which it threatened to avenge, in a statement posted on jihadist internet forums on Friday, the US monitoring group ...Published: 06 May 2011 at 13:31hrs | | by Matthews Estell
Osama Bin Laden 'Plotted Attacks' to mark 10th anniversary of 911
According to SkyNews on Friday, Al Qaeda was planning an attack on the US rail network to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, US of...Published: 06 May 2011 at 06:37hrs | | by Moyo Roy
New Osama bin Laden surfaces in Yemen
WESTERN leaders wondering who will be the new al-Qaeda leader need look no further than Anwar al-Awlaki. He is no wild man from the hills but an intellectual preacher, using the internet to ...Published: 05 May 2011 at 13:28hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Fake Osama photos go viral
San Francisco - The images are bloody, grotesque and convincing: Osama bin Laden lies dead, the left side of his head blasted away. But the pictures are fakes.Doctored photos purporting to sh...Published: 05 May 2011 at 06:48hrs | | by Nare Msupa
Obama refuses to release Osama's pictures
US President Obama decided against releasing pictures of Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of U.S. forces because doing so could pose a security risk and would be inconsistent with American values....Published: 04 May 2011 at 22:24hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Video tour of Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound
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Who is now America's new public enemy number one?
Washington - While it is not yet certain who will replace Osama bin Laden to lead al-Qaeda, CIA Director Leon Panetta said on Tuesday that whoever take his place will becomes America's new public ene...Published: 04 May 2011 at 14:02hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Bin laden was un-armed when US commandos shot him dead
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States revealed that Osama bin Laden was unarmed when US commandos shot him dead and that Pakistani authorities were kept in the...Published: 04 May 2011 at 08:41hrs | | by Andrew Gully
USA govt weighs pros and cons of releasing photos of Osama bin Laden
In 2003 when pictures of the bodies of Saddam Hussein's dead sons were released by the U.S military, it was to prove that they were dead and to stem attacks on U.S soldiers in Iraq.How...Published: 04 May 2011 at 07:33hrs | | by Matthews Estell
Bin Laden death will not affect Al-Qaeda: Jihad leader
CAIRO — A founding member of Egypt's Islamic Jihad and friend of Al-Qaeda's new chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri told AFP Tuesday that Osama bin Laden...Published: 03 May 2011 at 20:53hrs | | by Samer al-Atrush
Pakistani media Faked Osama bin Laden's picture
A photo released on Monday purporting to show Osama bin Laden's body is now reported to be a fake.The image was carried by a number of international news agencies and broadcast by news channel...Published: 03 May 2011 at 12:17hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Osama bin Laden photos latest
Washington - Still-secret photos of the dead Osama bin Laden show a precision kill shot above his left eye, a US official said, as fresh details emerged of an...Published: 03 May 2011 at 13:33hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Osama's death exposes US 'brutality'
The South African government reacted cautiously to the news that al-Qaeda founder and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in Pakistan on Monday.In a statement issue...Published: 03 May 2011 at 12:38hrs | | by Deon de Lange and Michelle Pietersen
Obama watched Osama die
From halfway around the world, President Barack Obama and his national security team monitored the strike on Osama bin Laden's compound in real time, watching and listening to the firefight that kille...Published: 03 May 2011 at 12:35hrs | | by Moyo Roy
The world now safer without Bin Laden: Obama
Speaking at the White House on Monday, the US president, Barack Obama said bin Laden's death shows that the US has kept its commitment to seeing that justice is done.Obama also praised the p...Published: 03 May 2011 at 05:33hrs | | by Matthews Estell
How America killed Osama bin Laden, 'TIP-OFF': Wikileaks
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks was repeatedly subjected to interrogated and torture methods including "waterboarding" and stress positions, provided the US' CIA with...Published: 03 May 2011 at 00:12hrs | | by Bhebhe Mandla
Trumps wants Obama to release Osama's death certificate
Satire...After making Obama release the long form of his birth certificate Donald Trump moved on to more important issues. Now he demands to see Osama bin Ladin's death certificate and a poun...Published: 02 May 2011 at 16:35hrs | | by Insider Monkey
Osama bin Laden buried at sea: Reports
The dilemma of what to do with Osama bin Laden's body appears to have been quickly resolved if reports that he has been buried at sea prove correct, guardian.co.uk reported on Monday.Burying ...Published: 02 May 2011 at 10:26hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Obituary: Osama bin Laden
In his death on May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden kept a promise made in a 2006 audio message.Alluding to the United States' hunt for him, the al-Qaeda leader stated his determination to avoid cap...Published: 02 May 2011 at 10:30hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Reactions: Obama kills Osama
Barack Obama - US presidentToday, at my direction, the United States carried out that operation... they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his ...Published: 02 May 2011 at 08:31hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Osama Bin Laden's dead body picture photoshoped?
A small team of Americans carried out the operation which lead to a firefight, which they claim to have killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.According to ABC News sources, DNA...Published: 02 May 2011 at 07:49hrs | 2 | by Moyo Roy
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