Osama Bin Laden

Osama Bin Laden's Last Words Published Online

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 04.05.2012 | UK

Letters seized from Osama Bin Laden's Pakistani hideout expose the Al Qaeda leader's frustration with his jihadi "brothers" and his inability to contr...

Bin Laden Day

Matt Carr | Posted 01.07.2012 | UK Politics
Matt Carr

Obama has an election to win and he needs to spin the Afghan war as victory and also to take credit for it... and the idea that Bin Laden's execution has paved the way for the defeat of al Qaeda is false for various reasons.

10 Things We Now Know About Osama Bin Laden

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 01.05.2012 | UK

The death of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden brought to an end one of the longest, most high-profile manhunts of all-time. One year ago today, the...

PICTURES: One World Trade Center Rises To Dizzying Heights From Ground Zero

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 01.05.2012 | UK

One World Trade Center has become the tallest building in New York after steel columns were lifted onto the top of the "Freedom Tower". The constru...

5 Things We Still Don't Know About Bin Laden's Death

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 01.05.2012 | UK

One year ago Osama bin Laden was shot dead by US Navy Seals during a raid on his home in Pakistan. His death has brought a range of information on...

Al-Qaeda 'Offer Prisoner Swap Deal Over Abu Qatada'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.04.2012 | UK

Al-Qaeda has offered to free a British hostage if the radical cleric Abu Qatada is released by the UK, a statement claimed today. The terror group'...

Osama Bin Laden's Three Widows And 11 Children Deported From Pakistan To Saudi Arabia

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 26.04.2012 | UK

Osama bin Laden's three widows and 11 of his children were tonight leaving Pakistan and flying to Saudi Arabia, it was reported. The women were se...

'Supergrass' Tells Of Osama Threat

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK

A British man dubbed "supergrass" has told a court Osama Bin Laden boasted of a planned attack which would cause the US economy to collapse. Saajid...

Bin Laden's Youngest Widow 'Wants To Live In Britain And Meet The Royal Family'

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 19.04.2012 | UK

The youngest of Osama Bin Laden’s three widows wants to raise her five children in Britain, it has been reported. Amal Abdulfattah al-Sadah is i...

VIDEO: Osama Bin Laden's Family Pictured In Prison Compound

Posted 10.04.2012 | UK

Pictures of the widows, children and grandchildren of Osama bin Laden held in a police-guarded compound have been aired for the first time by an Arabi...

Bin Laden's Wives Sentenced To Prison

Huffington Post UK | Posted 02.06.2012 | UK

Three of Osama Bin Laden's widows and two of his daughters have been sentenced to prison for 'illegal residency' in Pakistan. The court ordered the...

PHOTO: Shooting Starts On Bin Laden Film

PA | Posted 08.03.2012 | UK Entertainment

Jessica Chastain has arrived in India to start shooting Kathryn Bigelow's film about Osama bin Laden. The Tree Of Life star and Venezuelan actor Ed...

Was Osama Bin Laden Really Buried At Sea? Mystery Of WikiLeaks Emails

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 06.03.2012 | UK

Osama Bin Laden was apparently buried in the waters of the north Arabian sea, but internal emails from intelligence service Stratfor, obtained by hack...

Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan Hideout Is Demolished (PICTURES)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 27.02.2012 | UK

The lair where al-Qaeda kingpin Osama bin Laden lived in secrecy before he was killed by US commandos has been razed to the ground. The concrete c...

'Frustrating And Difficult': Cameron Speaks To King Of Jordan On Qatada

PA | Posted 09.02.2012 | UK Politics

David Cameron and King Abdullah of Jordan are agreed on the "importance of finding an effective resolution" to the Abu Qatada case, Downing Street has...

NATO'S Leaked Report: A Breakdown in Relations With Pakistan

Dr Gareth Price | Posted 02.04.2012 | UK
Dr Gareth Price

While the leaking of the report may have been intended to discredit Pakistan, the apparent lack of detail in exactly how its intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI, helps the Taliban is telling, and positive.

2011 Was the Year of The Protester - But for Many Countries, Democracy Remains Far Off

Emily Wight | Posted 20.02.2012 | UK
Emily Wight

Judging by first appearances, 2011 has been a pretty good year for the gatekeepers of democracy. The Tunisian revolution that erupted a year ago triggered similar uprisings across the Arab world and led to the downfall of Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan dictators. TIME magazine recently named The Protester as their Person of the Year.

A Look Back At 2011 In Rhyme - Part 1

Dave Cohen | Posted 15.02.2012 | UK Comedy
Dave Cohen

Happy New Year everyone. Part 2 will follow soon. Ohh... Sama, You were Bin, and now you're gone, And I don't know if I can go on. Ohh... Sama, A...

Come on Terrorists, Play Fair

Ian Watson | Posted 23.01.2012 | UK
Ian Watson

Carlos the Jackal, the notorious terrorist and assassin of the latter part of the last century, hasn't got a nail clipper and he's peeved. It's mainly...

Two Of Britain's Best To Join Bin Laden Cast?

PA | Posted 11.01.2012 | UK Entertainment

Tom Hardy and Idris Elba could be in line for roles in Kill Bin Laden. The British actors are amongst the names in the running for Kathryn Bigelow'...

Is It Wrong To Dress Up As Gaddafi For Halloween?

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse And Cosima Ungaro | Posted 26.12.2011 | UK

Bad taste Colonel Gaddafi jokes sprung up across the Internet even as unconfirmed reports of capture first filtered through to media channels. Twi...

An Open Letter to Democrats

Jon-Christopher Bua | Posted 25.12.2011 | UK
Jon-Christopher Bua

As in my last blog "An Open Letter To Republicans" where I told them that they better get used to Mitt Romney -- here is my advice to you Democrats... Hold your nose and swallow hard Obama is your man!

Jimmy Carter 'Personally And Privately' Conveyed Reservations To Blair On Iraq

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 05.12.2011 | UK

Former president Jimmy Carter believes President Obama will win the 2012 election despite the woeful state of the US economy. Referring to next ye...

Paul Vale

Donald Rumsfeld Applauds Al Jazeera In Interview With David Frost

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Vale | Posted 29.11.2011 | UK

Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has given an interview to Al Jazeera, ending his feud with a channel he once described as “vicious”...

What I Learned About 9/11 From the Last Night of the Proms

Karin Robinson | Posted 10.11.2011 | UK
Karin Robinson

It couldn't have been further from the "posh people go wild" nonsense of the usual Last Night tradition, but we were only a week out from the watching the twin towers fall, and even here - even in London - we didn't know if we would ever laugh again.