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Bin Laden’s will revealed by the CIA on Feb.3


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A courtroom sketch shows Khalid Al-Fawwaz (C), a 52-year-old Saudi national described as a top Osama Bin Laden deputy, during his sentencing hearing at the New York Federal Court, on May 15, 2015, during which he was sentenced to life in prison in connection with the deadly 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (Reuters/Marilyn Church/Handout)


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This image obtained from the SITE Intelligence Group on March 12, 2015, shows a frame from a propaganda video by the Islamic State (IS) group showing a white car alongside an inset image of a young man who appears to be Melbourne teen Jake Bilardi sitting in a driver’s seat at an undisclosed location, allegedly […]


Opinion: Abu Who?

Opinion: Abu Who?

One can only be shocked and surprised by the way the Arab media has been reporting on terrorism and terrorists. Most recently we had the story of the Australian teenager Jake Bilardi, aged 18, who is believed to have carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq’s central...
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This undated file photo shows late Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden (L) sitting with his successor Ayman Al-Zawahiri in an unknown location. (Reuters)


Taking Tea with Terrorists

Taking Tea with Terrorists

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—”Would you like to take tea with the leaders of Tupamaros?” This was the question an acquaintance put to me in the 1970s during a visit to Uruguay for a meeting of the International Press Institute (IPI). Normally, every reporter...
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Security guard the federal courthouse in Manhattan during the sentencing of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and former Al-Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith on September 23, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / YANA PASKOVA)