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Osama is Time 's (Dead) Man of Year

Rob Quinn — Tue, 03 May 2011 02:20:31 CDT

In death, Osama bin Laden will be joining Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Time magazine is putting out a special issue Thursday with a red 'X" over the terror kingpin's face on the cover, making him only the fourth such cover star, reports the Huffington Post...

Prez Pushes Osama's Link to Insurgency

Peter Fearon — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:13:41 CDT

President Bush insisted again yesterday that a Sunni insurgent group in Iraq is an integral part of Osama bin Laden's worldwide al-Qaeda network—-rebuffing several experts' claims to the contrary. Recent reports have suggested that Sunnis fighting under the "al-Qaeda in Iraq" banner are local insurgents with a weak connection...

Bush Details Bin Laden Plot

Dustin Lushing — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:23:37 CDT

Osama bin Laden attempted to launch a terrorist cell in Iraq through which Al-Qaeda could attack the US, President Bush said today. The newly declassified information fleshed out a 2005 Homeland Security alert that Bin Laden directed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, then his top man in Iraq, to organize the unit...

Tribes Claim Al-Qaeda Head Killed by Rivals

Sam Gale Rosen — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:40:50 CDT

The head of al-Qaeda in Iraq is dead, according to the Iraqi government. Abu Ayyub al-Masri was killed in a skirmish between rival groups of militants, officials said today, suggesting the possibility of exploitable rifts in the Sunni insurgency. The U.S. military has not verified the claim because a...