Osama bin Laden

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• Bin Laden son-in-law wants to hire lawyer facing indictment

  bin Laden 's son-in-law said Wednesday that he wants to be defended on terrorism charges in federal court in Manhattan by an activist lawyer who is himself under criminal indictment.Sulaiman Abu Ghaith told U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan that he wanted Stanley   Read more »

• Attorney General defends Justice Department's secret probe of AP phone records

  disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bomb plot around the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden . The probe is being run out of the U.S. Attorney's office in the District of Columbia .Asked about it at a news conference   Read more »

• Murdock: Benghazi is biggest coverup since Watergate

  duty since 1979. These facts completely undermined the myth that al-Qaida was in retreat since SEAL Team Six liquidated Osama bin Laden in May 2011.So, Team Obama buried these inconvenient truths beneath a sand dune of lies. Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based   Read more »

• Swerdlick: Why the GOP won't work with Barack Obama

  had ever heard of Romneycare, and almost no one really believed that we'd ever find and kill terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden .But from day 101 on, many of the goals of the Obama administration eventually came to pass.Yes, he's had some notable setbacks   Read more »

• Sequestration may delay trial of Osama bin Laden son-in-law

  conspiracy trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law in federal court in Manhattan may have to be delayed till 2014 because of the federal budget sequestration, a judge was told Monday.Federal public defenders appointed to represent Sulaiman Abu Ghaith told U.S.   Read more »

Around the web

• You can’t see the bin Laden death photos because that would endanger Americans overseas

  a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision on Tuesday, three judges unanimously agreed that the more than 50 Osama bin Laden death photos taken during the Abbottabad raid and ocean burial on May 2, 2011, will remain classified. “It is undisputed that the government 51 m ago from death + taxes Read more »

• Court: US can keep bin Laden photos under wraps

  — A federal appeals court is backing the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos. We welcome your comments on this story, but please 11:05 AM from Fort Worth Star-Telegram Read more »

• US appeals court rules Osama bin Laden's death photos can stay secret

  appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the US government had properly classified more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them. The unanimous ruling by three judges on the US 10:55 AM from NDTV Read more »

• Usama bin Laden called Yunus Khalis “the Father Sheikh:” Weird but Possibly True

  Sudan for Nangarhar. For many authors, Khalis’s fame and prominence in the region combined with his known interactions with Bin Laden provide an adequate explanation: al-Qa’ida must have come to Nangarhar in 1996 because of the importance of the Khalis-Bin 10:28 AM from COMOPS Read more »

• The outrage industrial complex's complicated week

  States that same day, suggesting that Obama sympathized with the attackers. Thats right. The man who made the call to shoot Osama bin Laden in the head was suddenly a terrorist sympathizer because Romney wanted to be Reagan and needed a Carter. Would cheerfully 12:43 AM from The Asheville Citizen-Times Read more »