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British Airways Apologizes for Bin Laden Boarding Pass
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(June 3) -- British Airways apologized for a photograph that showed a boarding pass made out in the name of Osama bin Laden. The picture, published on the cover of British Airways' internal magazine, LHR News, showed an iPhone with an electronic boarding pass for bin Laden to fly from London to Washington, D.C., the Daily Mail reported. "A mistake was made and we are working to find out how this occurred," British Airways said in a Twitter message in response to a tweet about the story. "Apologies for the error." How did a photo of a boarding pass for Osama bin Laden end up in British ...
5 Ways to Kill Osama Bin Laden in 2 Hours or Less
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(April 23) -- A concerted push to downsize the nation's nuclear arsenal is making long-range conventional strike weapons a hot topic. These Prompt Global Strike weapons are "designed to carry out tasks like picking off Osama bin Laden in a cave, if the right one could be found; taking out a North Korean missile while it is being rolled to the launchpad; or destroying an Iranian nuclear site -- all without crossing the nuclear threshold," the New York Times reports today. The weapons are under development, though not yet deployed. They would provide "conventional alternatives on long-range ...
AG Eric Holder on 9/11 Terror Trial: I'll Do What's Best for the Case
By Graydon Gordian - Politics DailyAttorney General Eric Holder Wednesday defended himself against Republican criticism that the Justice Department is treating terrorism suspects as criminals rather than enemies of the state. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Holder said his department needs prosecutorial options to successfully execute its anti-terrorism duties as he answered Republican concerns about where 9/11 suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried and the granting of Miranda rights to terrorist suspects. He also reaffirmed the Obama administration's commitment to closing the Guantanamo Bay detention ...
CIA Chief Says U.S. Has al-Qaeda on the Run in Pakistan
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyStepped-up attacks against al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal regions have disrupted the terrorist network and forced its leaders to retreat to deeper hiding places, CIA Director Leon Panetta says. Panetta, in an interview with the Washington Post, said the coordinated attacks in cooperation with the Pakistani government constitute "the most aggressive operation that the CIA has been involved in it its history." The agency chief said one intercepted message revealed an al-Qaeda lieutenant pleading with Osama bin Laden to provide leadership. "It is pretty clear from all the intelligence we are ...
CIA Chief: Al-Qaida 'Scrambling'
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 17) -- CIA Director Leon Panetta believes the current U.S. strategy against the al-Qaida terrorist network is showing major signs of success. In an interview with The Washington Post, Panetta characterized his department's efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan as "the most aggressive operation that the CIA has been involved in in our history." As a result of the effort, Panetta said, the U.S. campaign is succeeding in impeding the group led by Osama bin Laden. Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images CIA Director Leon Panetta said the U.S. strategy against al-Qaida has been successful in ...
Attorney General: Bin Laden Won't Face Trial
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 16) -- Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive. In testy exchanges with House Republicans, the attorney general compared bin Laden to mass murderer Charles Manson and predicted that events would ensure "we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden" not to the al-Qaida leader as a captive. Holder sternly rejected criticism from GOP members of a House Appropriations subcommittee, who contend it is too dangerous to put terror suspects on ...
Terrorist as Eco-Crusader? Bin Laden Blames U.S. for Global Warming
By David Sessions - Politics DailyHas Osama bin Laden gone green? Probably not, but the al-Qaeda leader has called on the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other developed countries for global warming, the Associated Press reports. Bin Laden said drastic measures are needed to halt environmental catastrophe, and proposed "bringing the wheels of the American economy to a halt." "We should stop dealings with the dollar and get rid of it as soon as possible," he said in a tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera. "I know that this has great consequences and grave ramifications, but it is ...
Bin Laden Lashes Out at US on Climate Change
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(Jan. 29) -- Osama bin Laden has lashed out at the U.S. and all industrial nations for causing climate change, saying ending global dependence on the American dollar would be the way to solve the problem. In a brief audiotape aired on Al Jazeera television, bin Laden blamed the West for causing hunger and other disasters across the globe, and said the danger of climate change was "not an ideological luxury but a reality." "We should refrain from dealing in the U.S. dollar and should try to get rid of this currency as soon as possible," as well as boycott American goods, he added, saying ...
Bin Laden Claims Credit for Christmas Day Bomb Attempt, but Officials Doubt It
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyOsama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner, but an intelligence official and other terrorism analysts believe it was only an effort on his part to show he is still in command of worldwide al-Qaeda and not just a figurehead. In a minute-long tape "Osama to Obama" message carried on the Al-Jazeera Arabic news channel, bin Laden said, "The message delivered to you through the plane of the heroic warrior Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a confirmation of the previous messages sent by the heroes of the Sept. 11. America will never dream of ...
Bin Laden Threatens More Attacks on US
By not in system - AOL NewsCAIRO (Jan. 24) - Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the failed attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas in a new audio message released Sunday threatening more attacks on the United States. However, a senior U.S. intelligence official in Washington said there is "no evidence whatsoever" that the al-Qaida leader had any involvement in the plot or even knew about it in advance. So the message indicates bin Laden may want to appear in direct command of the terror group's affiliates around the world at a time when some analysts have suggested he is mostly a figurehead. The ...
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