Tag: Osama bin Laden

French paper says bin Laden died in Pakistan

Tags: Osama bin Laden + al Qaeda + Taliban + Saudi Arabia + Pakistan

nugen
Posted by nugen 1 year 11 months ago; via aelo.fr/index.html

A French regional newspaper quoted a French secret service report on Saturday as saying that Saudi Arabia is convinced that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan last month.

L'Est Republicain printed what it said was a copy of the report dated September 21 and said it was shown to President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and France's interior and defence ministers on the same day.

"According to a usually reliable source, the Saudi services are now convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead," the...

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Americans Think Wars Are Creating More Terrorists

Tags: Iraq + Afghanistan + terrorism + Taliban + Osama bin Laden + Al-Qaeda

V
Posted by V 1 year 11 months ago

Many adults in the United States believe their government’s policies are having a negative effect, according to a poll by CBS News. 54 per cent of respondents believe the Bush administration’s involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is creating more terrorists who are planning to attack.

Afghanistan has been the main battleground in the war on terrorism. The conflict began in October 2001, after the Taliban regime refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Al-Qaeda...

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