President Barack Obama has announced the death of Osama bin Laden, killed in Pakistan during a CIA/Navy Seals operation.
WASHINGTON — President Obama announced late Sunday that Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, was killed in a firefight
“Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury — the phenomenon is an actual fact. All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.”
Guess who said this. Nope, it’s not James Hansen or Rajandra Pachauri. It’s none More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — A youthful-looking woman in a gray suit with long brown hair is known only to us as Interrogator Number 11. She was a military interrogator at Guantanamo Bay who interrogated the detainee she refers to as “Omar” from October 28, 2002 until November 14, 2002. The timeline More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — A question that intuitively speaks to the voluntariness of Omar Khadr’s statements to interrogators in Bagram (and later Guantanamo) in 2002 when U.S. forces captured him after a July firefight in Afghanistan’s Khost Province: Was Khadr a child back then?
FBI Special Agent Robert Fuller, who interrogated More…
A joint U.S.-Iraqi raid near Tikrit decapitated al-Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate on Sunday. Two of the country’s most wanted terrorists, Abu Ayyub al Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who have been responsible for thousands of U.S. and Iraqi deaths since 2006, were tracked by U.S. and Iraqi intelligence and special-operations More…
In an extremely short statement released today, Osama bin Laden warned the U.S. against putting Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to death. “The day America makes that decision will be the day it has issued a death sentence for any one of you that is taken captive,” bin Laden said in More…
Attorney General Eric Holder had a testy exchange yesterday with House Republicans determined to paint him as weak for his faith in civilian courts that have convicted many orders of magnitude more terrorists than military commissions. It took a baroque turn when Holder fielded a hypothetical question about whether More…
Our old colleague Daphne Eviatar, now with Human Rights First, takes to Firedoglake’s Seminal diaries to make the case toward which Eric Holder is inching ever-so-gingerly. Basically, not only are the federal courts better equipped to prosecute terrorists, but their political opponents know better than to launch such More…
President Obama announced this morning that the federal government would cut its emissions by 28 percent in 2020. It’s a small step compared to the nationwide carbon cap he hopes to institute — and which conservatives will battle tooth and nail — but it lends some quick credence to More…
In February 2004, Ubrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi was charged with conspiring with al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere to attack and murder civilians and destroy property. The government claimed that al Qosi was an armed guard and driver for Osama bin Laden going back More…
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