Tag: Osama bin Laden

Was Osama bin Laden a convenient fall guy?

Once the Americans decided to blame Osama bin Laden (OBL) almost immediately after the Twin Towers attack even before the dust had settled, it was taken for granted around the world that OBL was the culprit. When Osama heard the news he straightaway denied that he was responsible for the attack. Only later he took …

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February 23, 2018

New book gives inside story of Osama Bin Laden

American journalist, author and think tank executive, who interviewed Osama Bin Laden shared his experience about meeting the mastermind of the  9/11 attacks, war reporting, and his future endeavours. Speaking on the sidelines of the just concluded Jaipur Literature Festival, Peter Bergen, said, “The first thing that struck me was Bin laden was very tall. …

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February 4, 2018

Paradigm shift in cutting-edge journalism, say top practitioners

They represent journalism at its most exciting, influential but also lethal. Top journalists who have covered a wide spectrum of issues from the repressive life in North Korea, to brutal Islamist terrorism, to the plight of the Rohingya refugees, admit that “frontline” reporting is now undergoing a paradigm shift due to various factors, especially the …

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January 27, 2018

Iran refutes CIA ‘fake news’ in bin Laden files

Iran on Friday accused the CIA of spreading “fake news” about Tehran’s support for the Al Qaeda, describing the claims as an attempt to “whitewash” the truth about the role US allies had in the September 11, 2001, attacks. “A record low for the reach of petrodollars: CIA & FDD fake news w/ selective Al …

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November 3, 2017

CIA releases files recovered in Osama bin Laden raid

The CIA has released a thousands of files seized during the May 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, including personal photographs of his family and insight into the Al Qaeda’s global leadership, the media reported. The massive amount of new material released on Wednesday containes nearly 470,000 items totalling 321 gigabytes …

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November 2, 2017

Priti Shahani: ‘Abbottabad’ will reach on a global level

Vishal Bhardwaj’s upcoming film Abbottabad, based on the bestselling book The Exile on Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, will break barriers and reach out to audiences across the world, believes Priti Shahani of the film’s co-producing banner Junglee Pictures. Junglee Pictures, known for bankrolling films such as Talvar and Bareilly Ki Barfi, has acquired the rights …

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September 29, 2017

Vishal Bhardwaj feels nervous, excited for next

Filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj on Tuesday said he is excited as well as nervous about his next directorial project, which is said to be a prequel to Zero Dark Thirty and will be based on the bestselling book The Exile by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy on Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden. The film is reportedly titled …

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September 27, 2017

Saddam Hussain tries to get Aadhaar card for Osama Bin Laden, held

In a bizarre incident, a Rajasthan man named Saddam Hussain was caught for trying to make an Aadhaar card for the slain Al-Qaeda terror chief Osama Bin Laden, officials said on Monday.  Twenty five year old Hussain, who operates an Aadhaar card registration centre in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district allegedly, uploaded a blurred picture of Laden …

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May 15, 2017

The war within

President Ashraf Ghani’s lament last Sunday that Afghanistan is “in mourning” was seemingly intended to mollify the general criticism of the country’s leadership in the aftermath of the deadliest attack by the Taliban on the army since 2001 ~ the year President Bush mobilised his forces to “smoke out” Osama bin Laden from the caves. …

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April 27, 2017

Only one country exporting terror to whole world: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday targeted Pakistan, saying that there is only one country that is exporting terror to the whole world. He said that terrorism is affecting India’s neighbours, including Afghanistan and Bangladesh. "In the world when reports of terrorism come, then this news also follows that the terrorists came from that (neighbouring) …

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September 24, 2016

Bin Laden’s son urges overthrow of Saudi rulers

The son of Al-Qaeda’s slain founder Osama bin Laden has urged Saudis to "overthrow" the kingdom’s rulers in order to "free" themselves from US influence, SITE Intelligence Group reported on Wednesday. In an undated audio message, Hamza bin Laden urged Saudi youth to join the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to "gain the …

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August 17, 2016