osama bin laden

President Donald Trump has ignited a firestorm of criticism and charges that he is politicizing the military by faulting a war hero for not capturing al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden sooner.

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some special operations service members and veterans are unhappy that one of their own has taken credit publicly for killing Osama bin Laden. Others say they have gotten used to the idea that their brethren might break the code of silence and seek to profit from their exploits.

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point will release some of the 6,000 documents that were seized in last year’s raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, resulting in his death one year ago Wednesday. This is the first time the general public will have access to the al Qaeda leader’s papers.

As 2011 comes to a close, Google Zeitgeist presents a video retrospective of the most-searched topics that made the year memorable.

2011 can be tracked by its dramatic events, beginning with the Tuscon shooting that critically wounded US Rep. Gabby Giffords and continuing all the way up to the death of Muammar Gadhafi in October. Our minds were consumed with thoughts of the earthquake in Japan, the death of Steve Jobs and all the anxiety that came with the Occupy Wall Street protests ...

In his final days, Osama bin Laden was not a happy man. He felt al-Qaeda was killing too many Muslims, causing it to suffer a “marketing problem.” The West was winning the public relations war. So what was called for, he thought, was a new name.

New York, NY (WIBX) - New York Senator Charles Schumer is calling for a "Do Not Ride" list to ban suspected terrorists from Amtrak trains.

Oneida Nation Homelands (WIBX) - The Oneida Indian Nation is calling on the Obama Administration to renounce the inappropriate use of the name "Geronimo" as the code name for Osama bin Laden in the recent military operation that killed the terrorist leader in Pakistan.

(Washington, DC) -- President Obama tells CBS' "60 Minutes" that he will not authorize a release of photos of the slain Osama Bin Laden.