Osama bin Laden closely followed Kashmir situation, Headley trial: CIA files
Osama bin Laden closely followed Kashmir situation, Headley trial: CIA files
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) On Wednesday Released 470,000 Additional Files Seized In May 2011 When US Navy SEALs Burst Into The Abbottabad Compound And Shot Dead Laden. PTI | Updated on: 02 Nov 2017, 01:08:43 PM
Washington:
Osama bin Laden closely followed developments in Kashmir and the trial of Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley in the 2008 Mumbai attack case, according to documents seized from a Pakistani compound where the al-Qaeda founder was killed in a US raid in 2011.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Wednesday released 470,000 additional files seized in May 2011 when US Navy SEALs burst into the Abbottabad compound and shot dead Laden.
The death of Bin Laden, the world s most wanted man ten years on
In the early hours of May 2, 2011, Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces during a raid at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Bin Laden, the Saudi-born architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 had been hunted by the US and its allies for a decade. The then US President George W. Bush had declared in 2001 that he was Wanted: Dead or Alive .
Ten years later US intelligence received a tip-off that Bid Laden was at a walled compound in the Pakistan city of Abbottabad, close to a major military training academy.
Los Angeles-area newspapers headline the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. (Nick Ut/AP)
Ten years ago this weekend, U.S. Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, the group that carried out the 9/11 attacks.
A decade after his death, we consider bin Laden’s legacy and the current state of the terrorist group he led.
Colin Clarke, director of policy and research at The Soufan Group, joins host Callum Borchers to discuss.
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US Black Hawk military helicopters fly over the Afghan capital (AP)
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