Robert J O’Neill who claimed responsibility for killing Bin Laden arrested in Texas
Robert J O’Neill, the individual who gained widespread attention for asserting that he was responsible for the demise of Osama…
Robert J O’Neill, the individual who gained widespread attention for asserting that he was responsible for the demise of Osama…
Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari unceremoniously raked up the issue of Kashmir during a UN gathering.
The United States on Wednesday announced to release USD 3.5 billion of the total USD 7 billion frozen money of Afghanistan to the new "Afghan Fund" for humanitarian aid.
Osama bin Laden too was living comfortably in the cantonment town of Abbottabad where senior Pakistani military officers and intelligence officials had sprawling homes while Islamabad stoutly denied it had any knowledge about the whereabouts of the most wanted man in the world then.
The torture that Zawahiri underwent, and the obligation he felt to betray some of his colleagues, only served to harden his ideology.
Today, a more complete dominance by the Taliban looms with the impending pull-back of US troops. The Chinese will maintain ‘hard-borders‘ given their own vulnerabilities with the Uighur uprising, and the pandemic-fatigued Iran will struggle to offer any meaningful opposition to the Taliban. Potentially, the Taliban could crush all opposition and become the ‘export hub‘ of its puritanical-revisionist impulses, for which the first porous destination would be Pakistan.
However, Gilani has denied the charges and said that he is even considering responding to such allegations, “humiliation and disgrace”.
No details were given on where or when the body was disposed of, but it paralleled the 2011 sea burial of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after he was killed in a US special forces raid in Pakistan.
Alice Wells and US President Donald Trump's administration's point-person for South and Central Asia was going to be a part of the delegation in Washington, diplomatic sources told Dawn news.
The US media has cited two US officials saying they had confirmation that he was killed during the last two years in an operation that involved the United States.
