A group of former U.S. military and intelligence officers, including retired Navy SEALs, appear in a 22-minute documentary that was released on Wednesday asserting that the Obama administration has leaked considerable classified intelligence about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden for political gain.
There is no credible information that terrorists are plotting an attack to coincide with the Fourth of July holiday, federal law enforcement officials said.
"Manhunt" author Peter Bergen on what we can expect when documents from the Osama Bin Laden raid are made public today.
At a campaign event Monday in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney asserted that he too would have made the decision to send a U.S. Navy SEAL team to kill Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, telling reporters, "Of course, even Jimmy Carter would have given that order."
One year ago, the enemy that had haunted America for nearly a decade met his end in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Most Muslims in several key Middle Eastern and Asian countries hold negative views of the terrorist network al Qaeda a year after U.S. forces killed its leader, Osama bin Laden, according to a recent survey.
For the first time, the general public will be able to see a number of the 6,000-plus documents seized in last year's raid on Osama bin Laden's compound.
CNN's Matthew Chance takes a look at the cult of bin Laden, and how al Qaeda is faring a year since his killing
[Updated 2:30 p.m. Monday, April 30] This is a view of Abbottabad, the town in northwest Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed one year ago this week.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta says there is no question that the United States is safer with Osama bin Laden, the architect of al Qaeda, dead, but contends there is no "silver bullet" to destroy the terror network.
Pakistan says it is liaising with the governments of Yemen and Saudi Arabia before it decides when to deport several of Osama bin Laden's family members of back to their homelands.
A Pakistani judge sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters on Monday to 45 days of house detention for living illegally in Pakistan, the widows' lawyer said.
Pakistan sentences bin Laden widows. Ralitsa Vassileva reports they pleaded guilty to living in Pakistan illegally.
Pakistan has fired a doctor who helped the CIA to hunt Osama bin Laden, a senior government official told CNN.
Terrorism analyst Peter Bergen says Osama bin Laden was "focused" on President Obama and worried about al Qaeda's image.
Osama bin Laden spent years on the run in Pakistan after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, moving from one safe house to another and fathering four children, at least one of whom was born in a government hospital, his youngest widow has told Pakistani investigators.
Tapping away at his computer in the study of the suburban compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that he called home for the last years of his life, Osama bin Laden wrote memos urging his followers to continue to try to attack the United States, suggesting, for instance, they mount assassination attempts against President Obama and Gen. David Petraeus.
Sohaib Athar was a 33-year-old IT consultant living in Abbottabad, Pakistan, last year when he settled in around midnight to get some work done.
Sohaib Athar, the IT consultant who tweeted the Osama bin Laden raid, is a guest at the CNN Grill at South by Southwest.
Osama bin Laden's hideout is being demolished, bringing an end to a symbol of American resolve and Pakistani frustration over how the operation was conducted.
Nine rockets were fired at the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul Friday about 500 meters from the infamous compound of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Syed Imtiaz, Hussain Shah a senior police official said.
A senior al Qaeda operations planner was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan last week, according to a U.S. official.
Pakistan's government, embroiled in tensions between civilian and military leaders, has declined a visit from a U.S. envoy, a senior Pakistani government official told CNN.
Pakistan's prime minister asked his country's ambassador to the United States to resign amid a probe into a secret offer to Washington by Pakistan's president to cut down the powers of the country's military leadership.
Pakistan's ambassador to the United States has arrived in Islamabad in the wake of alleged links to a secret offer to Washington by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to cut down the powers of the country's military leadership, two sources within the government in Islamabad told CNN.
Pakistan's ambassador to the United States has offered to resign amid alleged links to a secret offer to Washington by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to cut down the powers of the country's military leadership.
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has apparently released a new message to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, in which he praises the Arab Spring as a "devastating blow" to the United States.
Pakistan has been an unreliable ally of the United States in the war against al Qaeda and other extremist organizations, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told CNN in an interview set to air in full Monday night.
Umar Patek, one of Southeast Asia's most wanted men for his alleged involvement in a series of deadly bombings, was repatriated to Indonesia Thursday, Indonesian authorities said.
Pakistan and the United States have had a wild ride over the years -- three marriages and two divorces. Events since the start of the year suggest that we may be headed for a third divorce.
Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the head of Pakistan's intelligence agency, left for Washington on Wednesday for a day of talks, two senior Pakistani security officials said.
A Pakistani doctor was arrested for allegedly trying to obtain bin Laden DNA through a vaccination drive in Abbottabad.
Since 2006, Vice has closely followed and chronicled the growing political turmoil in Pakistan, when founder Suroosh Alvi visited the infamous gun market of Darra Adamkhel.
How is life in Pakistan after bin Laden? VICE's Suroosh Alvi takes us on a tour around Osama's compound for a look.
Pakistan's defense minister called Wednesday for the United States to leave the airbase used to launch drone attacks against Taliban and al Qaeda targets on the border with Afghanistan, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
A member of a Pakistani-based militant group is denying a New York Times report that a cellphone found during the raid of Osama bin Laden's compound contains information that links his group to bin Laden.
Most Pakistanis told pollsters they disapproved of the U.S. military operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the direction their country was headed, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.
Pakistan detained a senior Army officer for suspected connections to a militant organization, a military spokesman said Tuesday.
The U.S.-Pakistan relationship faces new challenges, but recent media characterization of a breakdown in relations is clearly exaggerated.
Pakistan was aware of increased U.S. intelligence activity in the country weeks before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May, an Arab diplomat with direct knowledge of the events and a senior Pakistani official told CNN Saturday.
Pakistan's intelligence agency has detained several people who gave information to the United States before the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden, officials in Pakistan said Wednesday.
CNN's Brian Todd reports on Pakistan's arrest of informants who helped the CIA track Osama bin Laden.
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.
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.
U.S. President Barack Obama is showing "arrogance" in the aftermath of a mission that killed terror leader Osama bin Laden, said former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in an interview that aired on CNN Thursday night.
A CIA team of forensics specialists has been granted permission by the Pakistani government to visit the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, to search for possibly hidden or buried documents, a U.S. official confirms to CNN.
Given the chance, the United States would go after high-value terrorism targets in Pakistan or elsewhere in the same way it took out Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama made clear in an interview with the BBC broadcast Sunday.
The ability of the United States to enter Pakistan, kill Osama bin Laden and leave without detection was a humiliation to Pakistanis, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Wednesday.
Visits by outsiders to the Osama bin Laden compound were "few and far between," a U.S. official said.
Six people died in Pakistan on Saturday when a blast tore through a passenger bus, a government official said.
Suspected members of al Qaeda's Yemen wing ambushed an army vehicle on Friday and killed at least five soldiers, a government official told CNN.
Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee, as well as those in the equivalent House committees, will be allowed to view the photographs taken of Osama bin Laden after he was killed, a U.S. official told CNN Tuesday.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh looks at who else was in the compound when Osama bin Laden died.
As I flick through television channels, looking at the video images of Osama bin Laden, I do not only see what the United States government wants me to see: a vain, graying, diminished man obsessed with perceptions of his image (after all, I learn from news reports, he appears to have dyed his beard).
News outlets in Pakistan have made public the name of an American they identified as the CIA station chief, but a senior Pakistani intelligence official said Monday the person named is not the station chief.
Children in the Abbottabad neighborhood where Osama bin Laden lived said they noticed oddities at bin Laden's massive compound but were oblivious that the world's most wanted terror leader was hiding in the quiet city.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports on the children who played outside the compound in Abbottabad, where Osama bin Laden hid.
CNN's Candy Crowley interviews National Security Adviser Tom Donilon
The Taliban, one of Osama bin Laden's closest allies, confirmed late Friday that the al Qaeda founder had been killed by U.S. commandos during a raid in Pakistan.
Does the Taliban or al Qaeda pose a greater threat in a post-bin Laden world? CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports.
President Barack Obama met Friday afternoon with members of the military team responsible for conducting the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, and promised a war-weary nation victory over al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda warnings against the United States emerged Friday as the materials taken from Osama bin Laden's compound continued to yield a trove of intelligence, including details about a possible attack on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
CNN's Kiran Chetry speaks with former deputy asst. secy. of defense about information seized from Bin Laden's compound.
The one major problem for the Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden was the crash of one of their helicopters.
CNN's "American Morning" discusses the Navy SEALs' new stealth helicopter used in the bin Laden mission.
clo·sure: 2. a bringing to an end; conclusion.
Al Qaeda released a statement on jihadist forums Friday confirming the death of its leader, Osama bin Laden, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamist websites.
President Obama announced this week that Osama bin Laden was dead, killed in a U.S.-led raid on a mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Osama bin Laden's wife claims she didn't leave her husband's walled compound for 5 years, the Pakistani military says.
Osama bin Laden's wife has told interrogators she didn't venture outside the walled compound where the al Qaeda leader was killed for five years, a Pakistani military spokesman said Thursday.
CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports on an unclassified notice warning of an al Qaeda attack on the 9/11 anniversary.
First, the good news. Osama bin Laden is dead. As the result of tireless efforts on the part of thousands of dedicated men and women over a period of many years, one of the world's great monsters has met the fate he so richly deserved. Justice has been done.
As special-operations military troops prepared for a firefight about 7,000 miles away, President Barack Obama entered a room in the Washington area early in the afternoon on Sunday to follow along.
Osama bin Laden was not armed but did put up resistance when U.S. forces stormed a compound outside Islamabad and killed him, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday.
An IT consultant who became an unlikely global internet star after tweeting details of the raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed says he is bemused by the attention he has attracted.
Life tends to be simpler, slower, safer in Abbottabad than in many Pakistani cities.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports from Abbotabad, the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was shot dead.
It took mere hours to confirm that the person killed in a compound near Pakistan's capital was Osama bin Laden.
CNN's Chris Lawrence takes you step by step through the raid at a compound that ultimately killed Osama bin Laden.
As U.S. forces in Pakistan swooped in on Osama bin Laden on Sunday, at least one Twitter user was unknowingly reporting details of the raid.
While Americans took to the streets to celebrate the killing of Osama bin Laden with flag-waving, cheering and chants of "U.S.A., U.S.A", the reaction in Europe Monday was more muted.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks about the UN's role in the global fight against terrorism.
"A terrorist responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men" is dead, says the President
The operation that led to the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden took shape after detainees identified a trusted bin Laden courier as someone who may have been living with and protecting the militant leader, senior administration officials said.
The compound where Osama bin Laden was killed had a privacy wall and tight security. CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports.
As news of Osama bin Laden's death made its way across the globe Sunday night, Internet traffic exploded.
One week ago, the chief of Pakistan's Army Staff, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, told graduating cadets in the city of Abbottabad that the "back of terrorism" in Pakistan had been broken, thanks to the sacrifices of Pakistan's soldiers.
Although there has not been much cause for celebration for our global village over the past decade, the world was able to breathe a sigh of relief at the announcement by President Barack Obama of the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. special operations forces at a mansion on the outskirts of Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The State Department issued a travel alert Monday, warning Americans traveling or living abroad to be cautious about anti-American violence in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death.
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