Tag: Osama Bin Laden

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 18:19 UTC

  US drone strike kills Osama bin Laden's successor as Al-Qaeda chief

  

  An Al-Qaeda leader who was believed to have been involved in the so-called 9/11 attacks has been killed in a drone attack by US forces. Upon announcing the outcome of the mission, President Joseph Biden said about Ayman al-Zawahiri, that “this terrorist leader is no more.”

• Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 05:14 UTC

  Islamic State's ultimate goal: Saudi Arabia's oil wells

  

  For the terrorist group known as the Islamic State, Syria and Iraq were a good place to start their campaign, but in order to survive and prosper it knew from the outset that it had no choice but to set its sights on the ultimate prize: the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 00:49 UTC

  World safer than in aftermath of 9/11, say EU and NATO officials

  

  The world is safer today than in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United States, with global terror groups weaker than 10 years ago, senior EU and NATO officials said Monday.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 - 01:52 UTC

  Vatican says killing of Bin Laden calls for reflection before God and not rejoicing

  

  The Vatican said the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, a man who sowed division and hatred and who caused “innumerable” deaths, should prompt serious reflection about one's responsibility before God, not rejoicing.

• Monday, May 2nd 2011 - 06:53 UTC

  Two wars and 15 years to catch the most hated and feared men in the world

  

  Osama Bin Laden came to the world's attention on 11 September 2001, when the attacks on the United States left more than 3,000 people dead and hundreds more injured. In a matter of three years, the Saudi-born dissident had emerged from obscurity to become one of the most hated and feared men in the world.

• Monday, May 2nd 2011 - 06:46 UTC

  “Justice has been done”, said Obama announcing the killing of Bin Laden

  

  Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on United States soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a fire-fight with US forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Obama announced.