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High-level access granted to filmmakers researching a movie about the Osama bin Laden raid is just the latest episode in an increasingly close, cooperative arrangement that has spanned administrations. WASHINGTON — Some Republican lawmakers were outraged when federal records released last week showed that the White House, CIA and Defense Department granted high-level access last year to a pair ...
The sentencing of Dr Shakil Afridi, who had helped the CIA trace Osama bin Laden, would not restore normal relations between the United States and Pakistan, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said yest .....
Pakistan’s imposition of a 33-year prison term on a doctor who aided the U.S. in the hunt for Osama bin Laden won’t help to re-establish normal relations with the U.S., Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said it was “disturbing” and “difficult to understand” Pakistan’s 33-year prison sentence for a doctor who aided the United States in finding terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Shakil Afridi, a 48-year-old Pakistani doctor, was convicted last week of high treason by...
In an interview for “This Week,” Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told me that the Obama administration shared “nothing inappropriate” with director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, the pair making a film about the killing of Osama bin Laden. The filmmakers have received cooperation...
Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada - who was described by a judge as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe - could be freed today as his bid for bail is heard by a senior immigration judge in London.
La Clinton hath spoken. Thirty-three million smackers lopped off Pakistan's aid budget because its spooks banged up poor old Dr Shakeel Afridi for 33 years after a secret trial. And, as the world knows, Dr Afridi's crime was to confirm the presence of that old has-been Osama bin Laden in his grotty Abbottabad villa.
Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada could be freed if his bail bid is successful.
WASHINGTON - The miserable state of U.S.-Pakistan relations was laid bare even further on Sunday as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta once again expressed astonishment that America's supposed ally has so harshly punished the doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden last year.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Travel agent Sayed Zamanuddin Baha gets calls from people all over the world asking if they can see Tora Bora, the cave complex where Osama bin Laden slipped away from invading U.S. forces in 2001.
Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada could be freed today as his bid for bail is heard.
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The doctor who helped the US track down and kill the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, has been sentenced to 33-year imprisonment on treason charges, triggering a controversy at home and an unwarranted reaction from a US Senate panel of "symbolic" $33 million aid cut - one million for each year of sentence.
Security expert Bruce Riedel says that from the evidence at hand so far it is clear that the jihadist infrastructure in Pakistan is closely tied to the country's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence. Aziz Haniffa reports
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Sunday, May 27, defended the Obama administration's plans to wind down the Afghanistan war, saying the U.S. is on "the right track."
Exclusive: When U.S. Special Forces raided Osama bin Laden’s compound last year, they grabbed al-Qaeda documents describing internal debates, including how the terror group should continue exploiting Israel’s abuse of Palestinians as a crucial recruitment pitch, reports Robert Parry.
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