Judge Frees Kuwaiti Detainee
New York Times - 34 minutes agoA Kuwaiti detainee held in the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for almost eight years was sent home after a federal judge ordered him freed, the Justice Department said.
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A Kuwaiti detainee held in the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for almost eight years was sent home after a federal judge ordered him freed, the Justice Department said.
Perhaps only a “handful” of U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan in July 2011, the date President Obama set to begin a withdrawal, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said.
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not really know where he is, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
WASHINGTON (AP) — National security adviser James Jones said Sunday that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan. Most recent U.S. estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan. But Jones, a retired general, said the best estimate is that bin Laden "is somewhere in North Waziristan, sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the Afghan side of ...
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
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Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. hasn’t ruled out negotiations with Taliban leaders in Afghanistan to persuade them to end the insurgency, senior Obama administration officials said today.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. hasn't had intelligence on Usama bin Laden in years, but National Security Adviser Jim Jones speculates he is in North Waziristan and freely crossing the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
Hope and change have given way more of sameTo the editor:Hope. Courage. Audacity. Change. These were the ideas that were thrown about in the last election and what the majority of Americans thought they elected to run our country for the next four years. Instead, we have just gotten more of the same old tired rhetoric that we heard from the previous administration. The wars in Iraq and ...
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The United States does not know where Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is and has lacked reliable information on his whereabouts for years, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told ABC News on Sunday.
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden in years.
The United States does not know where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is hiding and has not had any good intelligence on his whereabouts in years, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Saturday.
The Associated Press Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
The Pentagon says about 16,000 U.S. troops will go into Afghanistan in the first wave of the new surge approved by President Barack Obama.