by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 6, 2011 | Features, Interviews
London, Asharq Al-Awsat – Al Qaeda was dealt a severe blow with the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden, and the question now is: who will replace Bin Laden as the leader of this terrorist network? Many analysts believe that Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Al Qaeda No....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 5, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
Islamabad, Asharq Al-Awsat –The surviving members of Bin Laden’s family have revealed, during interrogation with the Pakistani authorities, that the US forces that stormed the Abbottabad compound where the Al Qaeda chief was hiding captured him alive, and later...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 4, 2011 | Features, Interviews
London, Asharq Al-Awsat – Noman Bin Osman, a former leader in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group [Al-Jamaal al-Islamiya al-Muqatilah bi Libya – LIFG], who is now a senior analyst of the London-based Quilliam Foundation think-tank, told Asharq Al-Awsat that Abu Ahmed...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 3, 2011 | Features, Interviews
Cairo / London, Asharq Al-Awsat – Where is Osama Bin Laden hiding? That was the major question being pursued by intelligence agencies across the world following the terrible events of 9/11; is he hiding in the tribal areas along the Pakistan – Afghanistan border? In...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 3, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
Islamabad, Asharq Al-Awsat – US Special Forces finally killed the most wanted man in the world, Osama Bin Laden, in the village of Abbottabad, in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, on 1 May 2011. One of Bin Laden’s sons was also reportedly killed in...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 2, 2011 | Interviews, Middle East
WASHINGTON, (AP) – Helicopters descended out of darkness on the most important counterterrorism mission in U.S. history. It was an operation so secret, only a select few U.S. officials knew what was about to happen. The location was a fortified compound in an affluent...
