Killing Bin Laden
"The idea that bin Laden got from Tora Bora to that house over the last seven or eight years without a single element of the Pakistani state knowing about it just doesn’t ring true," said Pakistani journalist Mosharraf Zaidi, who has been reporting in Abbottabad. "What rings even more hollow is the notion that somehow U.S. military choppers and gunships could fly into Pakistan undetected." Pakistani writer Tariq Ali questions how bin Laden could have been living inside a fortified compound within a mile of Pa
Killing Bin Laden
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Bin Laden's capture
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Aftermath and reaction - live updates
Details of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, are still emerging
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Obama to lay wreath at Ground Zero but won't glorify Bin Laden killing
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Bin Laden killing left 'uncomfortable feeling' – Rowan Williams
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Life and death
Killing Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden: the Americans got him in the end in true John Wayne style
The killing of the al-Qaida leader will thrill Americans and give Barack Obama a boost - but what is the significance .
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Ex-State Department Official Matthew Hoh: With Killing of Bin Laden, Why Are 50,000 U.S. Troops Still in Afghanistan?
After two tours of duty in Iraq and serving in the State Department in Washington, D.C., Matthew Hoh became the United States’ senior civilian representative and political adviser in Afghanistan. He resigned five months into his contract, making him the highest-ranking U.S. government official to publicly quit over the war in Afghanistan. He joins us from Washington, D.C., to discuss whether the death of Osama bin Laden means the end of that war. “Everybody should be asking themselves today in the United States, if Osama Bin Laden was hiding in an upscale villa an hour or two drive north, northeast of Islamabad, then why did we put 50,000 troops in Afghanistan over the last two years?” says Hoh.
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| Obama says world safer without Bin Laden | |
| US president to visit New York to honour 9/11 victims as Washington steps up security amid fears of retaliation attacks.
'Symbolic victory' In Afghanistan, Qais Azimy, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kabul, said Afghan officials described Bin Laden's killing as a "symbolic victory", since he was no longer directly connected to the group's field operations. Mark Kimmit, a US military analyst, said Bin Laden's death "was not the end of terrorism, but an end of a chapter".
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The Question: Cheering by the West about Osama’s death is understandable, but what about innocent Arabs who were killed in the antiterrorism campaign?
Killing Bin Laden
Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission in the Situation Room
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