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Official: Forces arrest bin Laden associate in Afghanistan

A former associate of Osama bin Laden, described by authorities as a “Pakistan-based attack planner,” has been arrested in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the NATO-led coalition said Thursday.


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Official: Forces arrest bin Laden associate in Afghanistan

A former associate of Osama bin Laden, described by authorities as a “Pakistan-based attack planner,” has been arrested in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the NATO-led coalition said Thursday.


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Bin Laden thought about seeking deal with Pakistan, US official says

Osama bin Laden considered seeking a deal with Pakistan under which al Qaeda leaders in the country would be protected and, in return, al Qaeda would refrain from attacking Pakistan, a U.S. official told CNN Friday.


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WSJ: Spy, Military Ties Aided bin Laden Raid

WSJ: Spy, Military Ties Aided bin Laden Raid
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US ‘would repeat Bin Laden raid’

The US would carry out a similar operation to that which killed Osama Bin Laden if yet another al-Qaeda leader was discovered in Pakistan, President Obama tells the BBC.
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Obama thanks intelligence workers for bin Laden mission

President Barack Obama visited the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on Friday to thank operatives at the CIA and elsewhere for their work in tracking down Osama bin Laden.


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WSJ: Gates: Pakistan Unaware of bin Laden

WSJ: Gates: Pakistan Unaware of bin Laden
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Websites air audio purportedly recorded by Osama bin Laden

Radical Islamic websites Wednesday posted an Arab Spring audio message purportedly recorded by Osama bin Laden shortly before he was killed.


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Obama warns terror fight continues after bin Laden death

President Barack Obama reiterated his administration’s warning Wednesday that Osama bin Laden’s death does not mean an end to the U.S. war against al Qaeda and other extremist organizations, telling a group of graduating U.S. Coast Guard cadets that “the hard work of protecting our country … goes on.”


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OPINION: Why bin Laden was radicalized

I spent three days with Osama bin Laden in 1996 when I traveled to the remote, mountainous Tora Bora area of Afghanistan to interview him. I found him gently spoken, humble — even shy — and extremely polite. It is difficult to reconcile these personal memories of the man with the fact that he presided over so much terror and destruction.


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