For more then two decades Osama has been the face of terror in all part of the word. Here is all the Osama news, Osama updates, Osama current news and Osama information you want to know.
For more then two decades Osama has been the face of terror in all part of the word. It has been one complete year after Osama Bin Laden was shot dead in Pakistan by Americans in a secret mission. But even after the death of the founder of Al-Qaeda, world still fears terrorism.
Here is all the Osama news, Osama updates, Osama current news and Osama information you want to know.
Osama bin Laden goes by the full name of Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. He was born on March 10, 1957 in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia and later founded Al Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for several terrorist attacks around the globe. His father Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was a billionaire construction magnate in Riyadh.
He was on the lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists of Federal Bureau of Investigation. He also had a bounty of US$25 million on his head. He was involved in the U.S. Embassy bombings of 1998.
Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs and CIA operatives on May 2, 2011 inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. This secret operation was carried out by the permission of United States President Barack Obama.
Mumbai, June 19 (IANS) Pakistani actor Ali Zafar doesn't believe in being overworked as he loves to spend quality time with family.
Rome, June 18 (IANS/AKI) A young Italian who converted to Islam and joined rebels seeking to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been killed in Syria, an Italian daily said.
Panaji, June 17 (IANS) The appointment of the controversy-prone Congressman Digvijay Singh as general secretary of three states, including Goa, has already sparked off banter in the virtual and political circles here.
Islamabad, June 15 (ANI): The Pakistan People Party (PPP) has asked the PM Nawaz Sharif led Pakistan Muslim League- N (PML-N) to fulfill the promises made prior to elections about publishing the Abbottabad Commission report, shooting down drones and also prosecuting former president Musharraf.
Madrid, June 12 (IANS) Police in Barcelona arrested five people of Tunisian origin on suspicion of terrorist activities Wednesday, reported Xinhua.
Wellington, June 6 (ANI): Former CIA Director Leon Panetta has been accused of violating security rules by revealing the name of the commander of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, to the writer of the film Zero Dark Thirty, according to US Defense Department investigators.
Washington, June 5 (ANI): A senior Republican lawmaker wants the administration to declassify more of slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's writings.
Melbourne, June 4 (ANI): Bradley Manning has been accused by US military prosecutors of helping the Al-Qaeda by funnelling a horde of secret files to WikiLeaks at the start of his trial.
Melbourne, June 4 (ANI): Bradley Manning has been accused by US military prosecutors of helping the Al-Qaeda by funnelling a horde of secret files to WikiLeaks at the start of his trial.
London, June 3 (ANI): Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has said that the Boston Marathon blasts have revealed America's fragile security and proved that making bombs was within "everyone's reach".
London, June 2 (ANI): Iraq's military intelligence authorities have arrested five men, linked to Al- Qaeda, for manufacturing chemical weapons and plotting to smuggle them to Europe and North America.
London, May 31 (ANI): One of the two suspected terrorists, who hacked a British soldier to death on a busy London street, is believed to have had contact with a 'terrorist instructor'.
Washington, May 30 (ANI): Months before US President Barack Obama declared that the al Qaeda was "on a path to defeat", his aides had been telling Congress that the terrorist network was expanding and was capable of inflicting mass casualties in the US.
Washington, May 29 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has been accused of selectively quoting Osama bin Laden, by using a snippet of an anti-America screed to make it sound like Al Qaeda was breaking under the weight of the U.S. drone program.
Washington, May 27 (ANI): The forthcoming Al Jazeera cable channel in the United States wants to focus on America.
Washington, May 24 (ANI): Jailed Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi, who helped the US track down Osama bin Laden, had applied for asylum in the US but was denied by authorities, according to a classified Pakistani government report.
New York, May 19 (ANI): The knife that was carried by one of the elite SEAL Team Six members in the 2011 raid on former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has been sold at an auction, with the proceeds going to the family of another fallen SEAL, Brett Shadle.
Washington, May 19 (ANI): Radio host Pete Santilli has made shocking comments about former First Lady Hillary Clinton, claiming that she should be shot in the vagina for her involvement in the killings of US troops.
Washington, May 16 (ANI): A US judge has warned Osama bin Laden's son-in-law that a lawyer he hired to represent him on charges he conspired to kill Americans could end up in prison himself.
Islamabad, May 14 (Xinhua-ANI): Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Sherry Rehman, has resigned after her Pakistan Peoples Party faced defeat in general elections, state media reported Tuesday.
Islamabad, May 14 (IANS) Sherry Rehman has quit as Pakistan's ambassador to the US, it was reported here Tuesday.
Washington, May 9 (ANI): The National Rifle Association convention has asked a vendor to remove a controversial zombie doll that bleeds fake blood when shot, at the request of the organizers.
Washington, May 6 (ANI): Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has said Boston bombings show threat of homegrown jihadists.
London, May 5 (ANI): Players and supporters of a top Brazilian football club have been asked to abandon an internet campaign encouraging them to pose as Taliban fighters and post the photos online.
Washington, May 3 (ANI): Two years after the killing of former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, the terror network has become so decentralized that its affiliates in Yemen and elsewhere now pose a greater direct threat to the US.
Washington, May. 2 (ANI): A new documentary about the hunt for the Al Qaeda leader that will air on HBO will tell a slightly different story leading to the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Islamabad, May 2 (IANS) Two years after US commandos killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, his neighbours in Abbottabad are fed up with questions from the media and other people about the incident, saying they want to be left alone.
Baghdad, April 30 (IANS) Iraqi parliament's speaker Osama al- Nujaifi Monday called for the resignation of the government and holding early elections, Xinhua reported.
Mumbai, April 29 (IANS) Actor-singer Ali Zafar, who began his Bollywood journey with comedy film "Tere Bin Laden", feels that actors don't get typecast in the Hindi film industry.
Washington, Apr.28 (ANI): Sibling psychology might have been the motivating force behind the Boston Marathon attack, a new study has revealed.
Peshawar, Apr. 28 (ANI): Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, who reportedly helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden, has gone on hunger strike in Central Jail Peshawar 'in protest against the jail administration's ill-treatment'.
Islamabad, April 28 (IANS) Shakil Afridi, the doctor who allegedly worked for the CIA to help track down Osama bin Laden, is on hunger strike at a jail in Pakistan's Peshawar city to protest the jail administration's "ill-treatment".
Islamabad, Apr. 27(ANI): Lawyers for Dr Shakil Afridi, convicted for having links with a banned outfit, has alleged that their client was not given a fair trial guaranteed under the Constitution.
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New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) India's nuclear deterrent is based on a credible nuclear doctrine and is sustained by a "systematic drive to operationalize" its various delivery components, including a sea-based one by 2015-16, Shyam Saran, chairman of the National Security Advisory Board, said here Wednesday.
Washington, April 24 (ANI): A Fox News Poll has found that nine out of ten American respondents were satisfied with the application of law enforcement during the recent terror bombing on the Boston Marathon.
London, Apr. 24 (ANI): NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called on Pakistan to combat militants who use the country as a launchpad for attacks on neighbouring Afghanistan.
London, Apr. 21 (ANI): An Irish woman who taught Osama Bin Laden English has revealed that she never thought he was he was capable of masterminding something as terrible as the September 11 attacks, as he was a perfect student and a gentleman.
Washington, April 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A US military policeman based in Alaska has been sentenced to 16 years in prison and given a dishonourable discharge for selling US military secrets to someone he thought was a Russian spy.
Geneva, April 16 (ANI): The director of the Brussels-based South Asia Democratic Forum, Paula Casaca, has asked relevant authorities in Pakistan to be more accountable for developments taking place in the country's Balochistan province, especially in the wake of reports suggesting China's expansionist role in the region.
Geneva, April 16 (ANI): The director of the Brussels-based South Asia Democratic Forum, Paula Casaca, has asked relevant authorities in Pakistan to be more accountable for developments taking place in the country's Balochistan province, especially in the wake of reports suggesting China's expansionist role in the region.
Sydney, Apr. 14 (ANI): Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has said the idea that the United States wishes to extradite Julian Assange is "sheer fantasy".
Islamabad, April 13 (IANS/EFE) The Pakistani Taliban has said they will back the government's polio vaccination program if they are guaranteed it will not be used to mask a US espionage campaign.
London, Apr 11 (ANI): A member of the team that raided Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan will testify at the trial of Bradley Manning, US army private charged in a massive leak of American secrets to Wikileaks.
New Delhi, April 10 (ANI): Events in Afghanistan had gathering momentum in March and quite apparently preparations for end 2014 were now looking serious and urgent.
New York, Apr 9 (ANI): The trial date for Osama Bin Laden's brother-in-law in a US court is facing a months-long delay because of budget cuts in Washington, a report has said.
Mumbai, April 3 (IANS) Hollywood director Morgan Spurlock, currently shooting "One Direction: This Is Us", says the film following the lives of One Direction band members while on tour will have some "emotional moments" and fans "may shed a tear" while watching it.
Washington, Mar. 27 (ANI): The identity of the man who really killed former Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden remains a mystery even after the lengthy profile published by Esquire magazine earlier in February.
Washington, Mar 23 (ANI): A delicate US government agreement to keep secret Jordan's role in the capture of Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law has been upset by Republican Peter King's public thanks to the Middle Eastern country for their role in the operation, according to government sources.
Washington, Mar. 21 (ANI): A civilian court in New York has tried a man charged with violent and international terrorist crimes that prosecutors said is exactly what comes to mind when they think of 'al Qaeda'.
New York, Mar 21 (ANI): Microblogging platform Twitter, which is now seven years old, has some biggest moments that helped propel it as a social networking powerhouse.
New Delhi, Mar.21 (ANI): The visit of U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's visit to Kabul had been greeted by two suicide attacks on March 9 that left 18 dead. The Taliban were obviously leaving their calling card.
Islamabad, Mar 16 (ANI): Pakistan's envoy to the US Masood Khan has said Islamabad's relations with Washington are back on track after a brief period of tensions.
Washington, Mar. 15 (ANI): More than a dozen Pakistani nurses who were fired for having connections with a CIA plan to confirm Osama bin Laden's location have been reinstated, a Pakistani court has said.
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Pakistani actor-singer Ali Zafar is so much in love with sun, sand and the beaches of Goa that he is reportedly planning to own a shack there.
Washington, Mar. 13 (ANI): Iran's eviction of a senior al-Qaeda official appears to signal a crackdown on the terrorist group that has long been granted safe haven within its borders, U.S. officials have said.
Hyderabad, March 12 (IANS) Muslim Americans responded well to the post 9/11 challenges by engaging with the government and the society and countering the misinformation about Islam, said Muslim Bar Association of New York (MuBANY) president Asim Rehman here Tuesday.
Islamabad, Mar. 11 (ANI): Pakistan's former envoy to the US, Hussain Haqqani, implicated in the memogate scandal, has refused to return to Pakistan, saying that the government is incapable of providing him security.
New York, Mar 9 (ANI): Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law, an Al-Qaeda spokesman, who was charged in the US for conspiring to kill Americans on 9/11, has pleaded not guilty to his charges.
Washington, March 8 (IANS/EFE) A New York court will try Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, for "conspiring to kill US citizens", the US Justice Department announced linking him with the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Washington, Mar 8 (ANI): A top Al Qaeda spokesman, also a son-in-law of slain Al Qaeda's founder Osama Bin Laden, has been captured and charged in the United States for conspiring to kill Americans, according to an indictment.
Islamabad, Feb. 28 (ANI): US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives declaring Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi a hero.
Sydney, Feb 27 (ANI): The answer to Australia's worrisome spin crisis and Ashes hopes depends on Federal Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor, with Pakistani refugee spinner Fawad Ahmed on the threshold of a fast-tracked baggy green.
New Delhi, Feb. 27 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday termed U.S. President Barack Obama's Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel's alleged remark that India has over the years 'financed problems' for Pakistan, to be outlandish, bizarre and baseless, and asked the UPA Government to ensure the former retracts his statement, modifies it and corrects it.
London, Feb 27 (ANI): The US government is likely to call one of the 22 Navy Seals involved in the Osama bin Laden hunt, to give evidence at the trial of Bradley Manning over how he discovered digital material later revealed to contain WikiLeaks disclosures.
Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) So in spite of some scathing pre-Oscar reviews criticising it for turning a real political episode into a populist drama, actor-turned-director Ben Afflect's "Argo" won the golden statuette for the best picture.
Mumbai, Feb 23 (IANS) Actor-singer Ali Zafar got up, close and personal with Aditi Rao Hydari in "London, Paris, New York", however, he says kissing on screen is something he would never do as it makes him uncomfortable.
Washington, Feb 23 (IANS/EFE) Bravo, outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's faithful golden retriever, knows every nook and cranny of the Pentagon and has accompanied his master at countless high-level meetings.
Washington, Feb 23 (ANI): Hollywood-based activists have praised Oscar-nominated film "Zero Dark Thirty" and have called on its cast and to draw attention to the plight of Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor who helped CIA hunt Osama bin Laden.
London, Feb. 22 (ANI): Britain has been warned of a new generation of terrorists inspired by the Internet.
London, Feb. 22 (ANI): A list of 22 tips used by al-Qaeda for dodging drone attacks has been found hidden inside a manila envelope in a building abandoned by Islamists in Mali.
Washington, Feb. 21 (ANI): President Barack Obama has gained his highest approval rating as commander-in-chief of the US in over three years, a new poll has found.
New Delhi, Feb. 21 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said that while it has accepted Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's apology over his 'saffron terror' remark in the interest of democracy and to allow Parliament to function without disruption, and added that it was still quite disturbed about the fact that he did make the statement, giving room to hostile countries like Pakistan to say that India has a Home Minister who claims that political parties are indulging in terror within territorial limits.
Washington, Feb 18 (ANI): The CIA has reportedly found seven additional photographs of Osama Bin Laden's dead body that were not turned up in earlier searches.
Islamabad, Feb 18 (IANS) Testrictions on aid workers in the country's northwest must be "softened and rationalised" after new guidelines were issued following the tracking down of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden through a vaccination campaign, a leading Pakistani daily said Monday.
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Islamabad, Feb 15 (ANI): Public's confidence in the Pakistani national government, which is seen by Pakistanis as too cozy to the US government, has nosedived, reaching a low of 23 percent in March and October 2012, a new US Survey has found.
London, Feb 15 (ANI): Hard rock band Metallica asked the U.S. military to stop using their music as part of their tough interrogation process in Iraq.
Mumbai, Feb 14 (IANS) The Bachchans, known for their spiritual inclination, took time out from their busy schedule to visit the SiddhiVinayak temple here to take Lord Ganesha's blessings.
London, Feb 14 (ANI): Terrorist group Al-Qaeda is desperately trying to politically hijack various rebel Islamist groups in North Africa, according to the analyses of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb document.
London, Feb 14 (ANI): A British lawmaker has admitted for the first time that a 'primitive understanding' of the Islamic world caused some of the problems faced by the west in Iraq and Afghanistan.
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Hitting big time with his first film, Indian-origin actor Ricky Sekhon, who plays Osama bin Laden in Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar-nominated "Zero Dark Thirty", says he loved the challenge but wasn't sure whether he could pull it off.
Washington, Feb. 13 (ANI): The former Navy SEAL who said he shot down three bullets in the head of Osama bin Laden is in fact eligible for the same free health care extended to all vets, the military newspaper Stars and Stripes has said.
Washington, Feb 12 (IANS) Nearly two years after the daring US commando raid that killed the 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, a US Navy SEAL who pulled the trigger has recounted his role for the first time.
Washington, Feb. 12 (ANI): The Navy SEAL who shot down three bullets in the head of Osama bin Laden is jobless, separated from his wife and believes he's been abandoned by his government, according to a new report.
London, Feb. 12 (ANI): The female CIA agent, who had spent her life working on hunting down al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden wept when she was shown his body, the Navy SEAL who shot him dead has revealed.
Washington, Feb 12 (IANS/EFE) The member of US Navy SEAL Team 6 who shot and killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the military operation in Pakistan in May 2011 told Esquire magazine that he has neither health insurance nor a pension after leaving the armed forces.
London, Feb. 11 (ANI): Al-Qaeda's branch in North Africa had created an academy for terrorists during its occupation of Timbuktu.
London, Feb 5 (IANS) Pakistan's Abbottabad town, where Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a US commando operation, will soon have an amusement park built at a cost of around $30 million, a British daily said.
London, Feb. 5 (ANI): Abbottabad, the Pakistani city where Osama Bin Laden was found and killed by US special forces, is building an amusement park in the hope of boosting tourism.
London, Feb 4 (ANI): Outgoing US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has admitted that torture was used to 'put together the puzzle' that led the American military to Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.
Islamabad, Feb. 3 (ANI): Former CIA director, Leon Panetta, who oversaw the raid that killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has called Zero Dark Thirty a "good movie".
Washington, Feb 2 (IANS) As Hillary Clinton passed on the baton of America's top diplomat to John Kerry, a question was raised whether his supposed soft corner for Pakistan should be a cause for worry to New Delhi?
London, Feb 2 (ANI): A man in India who falsely named himself as dead terrorist 'Osama Bin Laden' answered an advert for a teaching post at an Indian primary school last year, citing Bill Clinton as his father.
Karachi, Jan. 30 (ANI): Pakistani movie distributors and TV stations are boycotting an Oscar-nominated film about the hunt for slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and popular US dramas to avoid offending sensibilities or sparking a violent backlash.
New Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) Two hugely popular video games, including "Call Of Duty: Black Ops II", have been ordered off store shelves in Pakistan for portraying Pakistanis as terrorists.
Washington, Jan 26 (IANS/EFE) US President Barack Obama Friday named Denis McDonough, who had been serving as deputy national security advisor, as his new chief of staff.
Islamabad, Jan. 25 (ANI): US President Barack Obama's pick for next Secretary of State, Senator John Kerry, dismissed a proposal that US stop aid to Pakistan until Islamabad complied with Washington's demands, saying such a 'sledgehammer approach' was not the way to deal with issues.
Islamabad, Jan. 25 (ANI): The Awami National Party (ANP) has demanded that Abbottabad Commission's report be presented in parliament for further debate in the National Assembly.
Washington, Jan 25 (IANS) Senator John Kerry, President Barack Obama's pick to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, sailed through his hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he chairs.
