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An Afghan fighter watches as US warplanes bomb positions held by al-Qaida in the Tora Bora mountains in 2001. Photograph: Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images


‘The Exile’ Book: Bin Laden’s Escape to Iran

‘The Exile’ Book: Bin Laden’s Escape to Iran

London– At the time when September 11 attacks on New York and Washington occurred, Osama bin Laden was hiding in an Afghan cave, unable to get a decent TV satellite signal and was forced to follow up the developments on the radio. Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy...
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Anti-Taliban Afghan fighters watch several explosions from US bombings in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan December 16, 2001. REUTERS/Erik de Castro


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Newspaper headlines and clippings are posted on a wall inside a staff office at the White House in Washington May 2, 2011, the morning after US President Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden. Photo: Reuters


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Osama bin Laden, Reuters


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AV-8B Harrier II from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit launches from the USS Boxer (LHD 4) during its first day of striking ISIS held positions in Iraq from the Arabia Gulf


Opinion: Extremism Before and After 9/11

Opinion: Extremism Before and After 9/11

Most of what is written and said about “extremist Islamists” today is very different from what was written about them in the recent past. Most western commentators and the majority of Arab intellectuals used to classify extremist groups like Al-Qaeda as movements that...