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Little Muslim support for Bin Laden's group, says poll

Muslim majorities in an arc of five countries from Egypt to Pakistan have little good to say about al-Qaeda one year after American commandos killed the Muslim terror group's leader, a poll shows.

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Drone strikes are legal and ethical: US

The White House has categorically dismissed Pakistan's concerns on the drone strikes, as a top Obama aid describing it as a both 'legal' and 'ethical' tool to get dreaded terrorists.

"As a matter of

Residents for statue of peace at the site of Osama's compound

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Residents of Bilal town in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad where Osama Bin Laden was killed last year have asked the government to build a ‘statue of peace’ or a beautiful monument at the si

Al Qaeda determined to make 'new history': Report

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A dead Osama bin Laden is as dangerous as a living one, senior Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir has written a year after the killing of the Al-Qaeda chief.

The article in Geo News on Monday, just days

Osama planned major attacks in Pak before being killed: Report

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Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had planned to mount indiscriminate attacks on the Pakistani soil before his killing in a covert US raid in Abbottabad, the documents seized by the Americans from the

Pakistan PM Gilani faces contempt verdict

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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani arrived at Pakistan's highest court on Thursday to hear the verdict in a contempt of court case that could see him thrown out of office and jailed.

The Supreme Court

NYC trial: Osama bin Laden wanted 9/11 follow-up

A British man who trained to be a shoe bomber a decade ago says Osama bin Laden told him shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks that he believed a follow-up terrorist attack could doom the Amer

'Bali bomber' was explosives expert: FBI agent

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An FBI agent testifying in the trial of the suspected Bali bomb-maker said on Thursday the accused had been identified as an explosives expert by other Islamic militants and had planned to kill US tro

'US drone strike' kills 5 Qaeda militants in Yemen

A suspected US drone strike in Yemen's southeastern Shabwa province has killed five Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants, a local government official said on Tuesday.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the

Pakistan to deport bin Laden family to Saudi Arabia

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Pakistan will deport slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's three widows and children to Saudi Arabia next week after the end of their jail term.

Their lawyer Mohammed Amir Khalil told the media tha

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