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By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- Leaked U.S. military documents reveal that a Guantanamo Bay detainee was freed after informing on 123 other prisoners, despite concerns about the reliability of his evidence, a British newspaper reported Tuesday. The Guardian, The New York Times and El Pais are publishing details of more than 750 leaked U.S. military dossiers on terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo. They reveal that the detainees ranged from close associates of Osama bin Laden to seemingly innocent men held even though they were judged to pose little threat. The Guardian said the prolific informer, a Yemeni man ...
Taliban Impostor Is the Latest in String of Afghan War Missteps
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 23) -- It would be a good joke were there anything funny about it. Nearly 10 years into the United States' war in Afghanistan, the Afghan government agreed to hold peace talks with the enemy and wound up sitting down with an impostor. The New York Times reports: For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the table: Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, one of the most senior commanders in the Taliban movement. But now, it turns out, Mr. ...
Report: Bin Laden Not Living in a Cave
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Oct. 18) -- Osama bin Laden and deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are thought to hiding in houses close to each other in northwest Pakistan, living relatively comfortably, CNN reports, citing an unidentified senior NATO official. "Nobody in al-Qaida is living in a cave," the official said, disputing a notion some have believed. Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri are reportedly living near each other, the official said. Al-Qaida's leadership is being protected by locals, the official said, and several members of Pakistan's intelligence services. AFP / Getty Images Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, seen here ...
CIA's Panetta: No New Leads on Bin Laden, Tough Road Ahead in Afghanistan
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyCIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday that it has been since the "early 2000s" that the U.S. had good intelligence on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden but believes he has holed up in the tribal areas of Pakistan. In an interview on ABC's This Week, Panetta also said the U.S. faced a "tough road" ahead in Afghanistan and downplayed a report that Pakistan was trying to form its own alliance with Afghanistan by saying it could deliver the backing of a key insurgent group for a power-sharing arrangement. Speaking of bin Laden, Panetta said "He is, as is obvious, in very deep ...
Gary Brooks Faulkner: Will It Take a Vigilante to Get Osama Bin Laden?
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyGary Brooks Faulkner, a 52-year-old construction worker from California, was detained Sunday by Pakistani authorities after being found with a gun, sword and night-vision goggles. Faulkner claims he was on a mission to kill Osama bin Laden. But while that my cause a few chuckles (including from the Pakistanis who detained him), the real joke is not on a would-be Rambo like Faulkner but on the U.S. government, which has yet to capture or kill bin Laden as we approach the nine-year anniversary of 9/11. After those attacks, the Bush administration allowed bin Laden to sneak out from Afghanistan ...
Senate Report Claims Bin Laden Was 'in Our Grasp' in 2001
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA Senate Foreign Relations Committee report issued this weekend says that al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden "was within our grasp" when he was "cornered" in the forbidding mountains of Tora Bora in December, 2001 under intense U.S. bombardment. ...
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