Month: May 2011

A SENIOR US defence official says only one of the five people killed in the raid that took down Osama bin Laden was armed and ever fired a shot. And the official says that shooter […] […]

US intelligence will seek to achieve in the coming weeks “information dominance” over the al-Qa’ida network – taking advantage of what officials have called a “motherlode” of data found at Osama bin Laden’s compound in […] […]

ONE of the people convicted of killing two-year-old James Bulger – a crime that shocked Britain and made headlines worldwide – is to be given a new name after a serious security breach revealed details […] […]

A TOP Russian secret service agent suspected of blowing the cover of a sleeper spy ring in the US was a heavy drinker who betrayed Moscow solely to make money, sources said. Alexander Poteyev, who […] […]

A CAR bomb tore through a cafe packed with young men watching a football match yesterday in Baghdad, killing at least 16 people, officials said. It was the first major attack since US commandos killed […] […]

WASHINGTON—It is unlikely many Americans will lose sleep over the distinction, but as the fog of war lifts and anger at Pakistan builds, the death of Osama bin Laden now appears to constitute outright execution. […] […]

Muslim clerics said yesterday that Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets. A wide range of Islamic scholars […] […]

American President Barack Obama said the world was a safer place after the demise of Osama bin Laden but supporters of the terrorists were already discussing avenging the terrorist leader’s death. Calling it a “good […] […]

MORE than four out of five pubs in Germany make use of legal loopholes or flout the rules to allow people to smoke, almost three years after a ban, a study by health campaigners showed. […] […]

THE US did not warn Pakistani officials about the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound because of fears they might tip off the al Qaeda leader, CIA Director Leon Panetta said in an interview. “It […] […]