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...Less than a year after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan following the chaotic US withdrawal in 2021, President Joe Biden vowed the country that once harboured Osama bin Laden would “never again ....
...That’s when, following the 9/11 attacks, they were ousted from power in a US invasion for harbouring people in al-Qaeda, including Osama bin Laden....
...Sam Tarry, a councillor and the manager of Corbyn’s campaign, tells the audience. “No longer do we want a party that is run by spivs and spinners in the corporate interest.”...
...“On the day when I was in the Situation Room, monitoring the raid that brought Osama bin Laden to justice, he was hosting the ‘Celebrity Apprentice’,” she said....
...For a deeper look at the policy differences between Trump and Clinton, read this story by my colleagues Sam Fleming and Barney Jopson....
...Akaash Maharaj CEO, Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) Laurence Cockcroft Co-founder, Transparency International Paul Polman CEO, Unilever Sam Eastwood Head of Business...
...US authorities believed Mr Aamer to have been an associate of Osama bin Laden and to have even led a unit of fighters in the battle of Tora Bora....
...The White House later confirmed the death of Wuhayshi, making him the most senior al-Qaeda leader killed by the US since Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by special forces in May 2011....
...Taliban militants are now active in more territory in Afghanistan than at any time since 2001, when the Northern Alliance and US bombing drove the Taliban regime from power after they refused to hand over Osama...
...The title is taken from one of the more lucid utterings of Osama bin Laden from Tora Bora in the late 1990s, a phrase that has echoed down the history of those who would murder in the name of Islam....
...In their mid-30s, both were of a generation for whom Osama bin Laden, rather than Isis, was the voice of global jihad....
...Since the death of Osama bin Laden, the group has struggled to maintain its authority over global jihadi groups. Al-Qaeda’s leadership under Ayman al-Zawahiri has been uninspiring and distant....
...US intelligence experts were worried that Osama bin Laden would be reincarnated in an “immortal” form: as a virtual avatar, controlled by a network of al-Qaeda jihadis in cyberspace....
...He hogs the caring/distressed/disturbed reaction shots until we want to say: “Hey, is this a lid-lifting essay on Uncle Sam or an ego-tripping Actors Studio exercise in how to project compassion?”...
...For now, al-Qaeda’s core presence in the area – and the world – remains in Pakistan, where Ayman al-Zawahiri, the successor to Osama bin Laden, is based. Its links in Pakistan run deep....
...And narrative variety and rubato, instead of “wham, bang, thank you, Uncle Sam,” is surely what we’ll get from Bigelow....
...Mohammeds and Osamas become Mo and Sam. Some hope people will mistake them for Puerto Rican....
...“Yes, Osama?” he replies. “Yeah, Osama and Obama,” the phone trader shoots a wry smile. “Together we’re going to change the world!”...
...Which we could even assign a quanty hellenophone like “negative Osama”, or something. For emerging market funds in general (with positive Osama) January wasn’t quite so bad....
...THE END OF FAITH: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris Free Press £12.99, 336 pages Sam Harris opens in rambunctious style by asking us to imagine a suicide bomber blowing up a bus....
...Texan politics had been framed by such Democratic Party titans as Lyndon Baines Johnson and Sam Rayburn. Jimmy Carter carried Texas in 1976....
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