The dramatic raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in a Pakistani town this week capped a decade-long manhunt, but it also revealed just how wrong the US had been about where the world's most wanted terrorist was hiding.
US officials reaffirmed on Wednesday that there was a firefight at the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed, despite growing questions about the Obama administration's version of events and revelations the al Qaeda leader was not armed.
The Pakistani who owned the compound that was Osama bin Laden's final hideaway meticulously bought up adjoining plots of land over two years and once cryptically told a seller that the property he bought for "an uncle" had become very valuable.
Slovenia police on Wednesday arrested a 29-year-old man who threw a backpack over the fence of the American embassy situated at Ljubljana city center.
The Pakistani who owned the compound that was Osama bin Laden's final hideaway meticulously bought up adjoining plots of land over two years and once cryptically told a seller that the property he bought for "an uncle" had become very valuable.
Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the US assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons.
US officials said that the Navy SEALs who stormed Osama bin Laden's compound shot and killed him after they saw him appear to lunge for a weapon.
Obama said Wednesday he has decided not to release death photos of Osama bin Laden because their graphic nature could incite violence and create national security risks for the US.
Pakistan army chief General Ashfaque Pervez Kayani is scheduled to pay a visit on Wednesday to the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad together with intelligence officials and high U.S. officials, reported local Urdu TV channel Geo News.
Pakistan army chief General Ashfaque Pervez Kayani is scheduled to pay a visit on Wednesday to the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad together with intelligence officials and high US officials
When a woman involved in a polio vaccine drive turned up at Osama bin Laden's hideaway, she remarked to the men behind the high walls about the expensive SUVs parked inside. The men took the vaccine, apparently to administer to the 23 children at the compound, and told her to go away.
US President Barack Obama said the killing of Osama bin Laden marked a "good day for America." Polls show it was good day for the president, too.
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