Capturing al Qaeda’s leader could have yielded useful intelligence—but would have led to a political and legal circus, and embarrassed the U.S. The political reality is that the president had no ...

The last time the world heard from Osama bin Laden, there was reason to believe his end was near. In a videotape released in December, bin Laden looked sallow; his speech was slow, and his left arm ...

Osama bin Laden was unarmed when Navy SEALs burst into his room and shot him to death, the White House said Tuesday, a change in the official account that raised questions about whether the U.S. ever ...

Original post from this thread - moved here to avoid yet another tangent. Originally posted by angrysand: all the while, bin Laden is on the lose. Is he? This is nothing more than a gut feeling, but I ...

Osama bin Laden, if he's alive, celebrated his 50th birthday on Saturday, and his friends in the Taliban prayed for his long life. The al-Qaeda leader's long silence has fuelled speculation that the ...

A Pakistani child looks at a book written about Osama bin Laden and the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center at book store in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday. Pakistani intelligence officials ...

WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was alive as of late December, which means he survived a U.S. assault on caves in Tora Bora in Afghanistan, Time magazine reported in its editions out ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Osama bin Laden, by referring to recent events in his latest taped message, showed he was alive in the not-too-distant past, U.S. officials said Monday. It was the strongest evidence ...