The CIA plot to depict Saddam and bin Laden as pedophilesThe CIA created a fake video showing Osama bin Laden and his crew sitting around a campfire drinking and bragging about their “conquests with boys” — and had plans to “flood Iraq” with fake videos of Saddam Hussein having sex with a teenage boy, the Washington Post reveals.
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How Mossad would deal with bin Laden: Tarantino-style
If Mossad captured Osama bin Laden, it would go all Inglorious Basterds on his arse, writes Abe Novick, in a rather twisted revenge fantasy that culminates in the US being so grateful, it happily lets Israel attack Iran.
Bin Laden threatens to kill Americans. What’s news?
Osama bin Laden has threatened to kill any Americans captured by al-Qaeda if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is found guilty for 9/11. But as the Christian Science Monitor points out, it rings pretty hollow when they’ve already been killing captured Americans for years.
Future Afghan government will include Taliban
Nine years of bloodshed and death, and billions upon billions of dollars spent on the Afghanistan occupation, we are facing negotiations on significantly worse terms than before the war began.
Bin Laden goes green
Osama bin Laden has publicly condemned America’s climate change policy as too weak. But this is one high-profile supporter environmental activists don’t need on their side, says Anna Rose.
The trouble with looking like Osama bin Laden
When the FBI created a mockup version of what Osama bin Laden looks like with short hair and cropped beard they didn’t, as you might assume, use fancy high-tech digital profiling. Instead, they just used a photo of a Spanish politician. Seriously.
What do the world’s most evil men listen to on their iPods?
Even evil dictators like to get funky sometimes. Believe it or not, Osama bin Laden likes the B-52s and Whitney Houston, Kim Jong-il rocks out to Eric Clapton and Muammar Gaddafi prefers the smooth crooning of Lionel Ritchie.
Crikey Clarifier: All roads lead to Yemen
Yemen has been big new lately, since alleged Christmas Day bomber, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, admitted to terrorist training in the country and put it firmly back on the map. But what do we actually know about Yemen? Crikey gets a background briefing.
must read Tora Bora: How Osama got away
Eight years since Osama bin Laden slipped through America’s fingers in the Battle for Tora Bora, The New Republic has the “definitive account” of what it describes as one of “the greatest military blunders in recent U.S. history.”
The Osama bungle: time to pass the impassable
For a country who prides itself on dominance and power, why can’t the US just catch Osama Bin Laden? Eight years after Tora Bora, it’s time to head into Pakistan and stop this embarrassing stain on US military history, writes Maureen Dowd.
John Kerry: How Bush stuffed up our chance to get Bin Laden
Al Qaeda’s power is growing as of late, so it’s too bad President Bush missed the chance to capture Osama bin Laden back in 2001. The decision to let Afghanistan troops lead have cursed the US military ever since, writes John Kerry.
The US hasn’t had any good bin Laden intel in years
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has admitted the government hasn’t had any good intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden “in years”. So where the bloody hell is he?
How bin Laden slipped through America’s fingers
A new report from the US Senate claims that Osama bin Laden was “within [their] grasp” in 2001, but escaped because the task of capturing him was “outsourced” to a pair of minor Afghan warlords.
My father, Osama bin Laden
Read a chapter from the new book by Omar bin Laden, son of the world’s most infamous terrorist leader, Osama bin Laden, who he describes (amongst other things) as a mathematical genius who showed little affection and didn’t believe in refrigerators.
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Growing up Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden’s wife and son (well, in both cases, one of many) are set to reveal all about what life was like in the household of the world’s most wanted terrorist. The New York Post has some choice insights from the pair.
Osama in America
Has Osama bin Laden ever visited the United States? It’s a subject on which I have expended an unhealthy amount of energy, writes Steve Coll.
Osama bin Laden: Eight years and counting…
It’s been eight years since Osama bin Laden fled to the hills. Are we any closer to finding the guy?
The Gaza Strip: A Crikey Wrap
With negotiations for a ceasefire in Egypt underway, Hamas looks ready to strike even a bad deal with Israel to end the bombing of Gaza.
Ned O’Sama: the resonance of transgenerational anxiety
Remixing Ned Kelly for the age of terror rings bells, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Abdel Bari Atwan gets his visa
Late last night (our time), the Australian High Commission in London told British journalist and academic Abdel Bari Atwan that he had his visa.
Terror redefined: Osama Bin Laden quotes The Housemartins
We know that Osama Bin Laden has been wont to spice up his various broadcasts with references to Western writers, designed it seems to confuse a US public whose historical memory extends back as far as the Cola wars. But is the bearded one now getting into 80s pop? Guy Rundle investigates.
Week in words, week in numbers
We’ve taken the “most viewed” stories from The Age and The SMH websites from the last week and crunched them into this week’s tag cloud. It was all about Sydney, with a bit of the Andrew Johns drug scandal thrown in and to make up for all the inexplicable talk of church, lots of s-x.
Weekly World News: the end of an error
Publisher American Media Inc has announced it will stop printing the Weekly World News.
Tabloids sow the “Seeds of Terror”
If you use the Herald Sun’s logic, John Howard is directly linked to al-Qaeda, writes Irfan Yusuf.
