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Why Is TikTok Sharing A Now-Deleted Osama Bin Laden Letter Published By The Guardian In 2002?

A 2002 letter written by Osama bin Laden is going viral on TikTok, with popular accounts saying they are "going through an "existential crisis" after reading, and are urging their followers to "just go read it".

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Bihar politicians take pot-shots at PM, CM in Dussehra video war

JD(U) MLC Neeraj Kumar posted a video depicting PM Modi as Ravan, CM Nitish Kumar as a time-bomb, in response to BJP State President's video of CM as Kumbhakaran. BJP accused JD(U) of having Al-Qaeda mentality, while Neeraj Kumar said BJP follows RSS.

The Hindu

The Situation Room got a makeover. Here's what it looks like now

It's a group of secure rooms where the president and his advisers make some of the most difficult national security decisions. After a year-long $50-million overhaul, it has reopened for operations.

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Former Navy SEAL who claims he killed Osama bin Laden arrested: report

Robert O’Neill, 47, was booked into jail in Frisco, Texas, and released on a $3,500 bond

The Independent UK

Two years after Taliban takeover: why Afghanistan still poses a threat to the region and beyond

The dramatic and rapid Taliban offensive in the spring of 2021 culminated in its takeover of Kabul on August 15. The chaos of the western withdrawal that surrounded the return of the Taliban represented a sad endpoint of two decades of failed US-led attempts to impose a liberal democratic system…

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Teenager jailed for life over ISIS plot to murder police officers or soldiers

A teenager from Essex who plotted an Islamist terror attack on police officers or UK soldiers and boasted about his murderous plans on SnapChat has been jailed for life.

Evening Standard

Essex teenager planned murder of soldiers or police in Snapchat terror plot

The teenager posted an image of four police officers outside a courthouse to Snapchat with the chilling caption: ‘Target Acquired’

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From Tampongate to Bin Laden: A history of King Charles in scandals

CHARLES Mountbatten-Windsor has waited seven long decades to be crowned as King...

The National (Scotland)

Chilling reason Osama Bin Laden's body was chucked into sea after being killed

Osama Bin Laden was 54-years-old when he gunned down as he left a room on the third floor of his hideaway compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he'd been living with his family

Daily Mirror

Capitol Lens | Twelve years ago - Roll Call

In this May 1, 2011, archive photo, a crowd cheers in front of the White House after President Barack Obama announced Osama bin Laden’s death.

Roll Call

Chilling last words of terrorist Osama Bin Laden before he was shot dead

Osama Bin Laden's fourth and youngest wife has recalled the moments leading up to the death of her husband in his Pakistan compound

Daily Mirror

Newly released photos capture drama at White House during operation to kill Osama bin Laden

More than 900 pictures taken by White House photographers on 1 May 2011 were released through an FOIA request

The Independent UK

Previously unseen photos show Obama White House at time of Bin Laden raid

Images show president plus Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and advisers focused on Afghanistan operation that killed al-Qaida leader

The Guardian - US

War, what is it good for? Very little

There simply is nothing great about them, except their power to destroy not just the enemy, but themselves as well

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This Just In: Conspiracy Theorists Not Quite as Kooky as Previously Reported

Greetings from the second International Conspiracy Theory Symposium, where one of the most cited findings in the field has been debunked.

Daily Mirror

Pilot recalls moment he rescued 23 Iraqis set for beheading from torture chamber

Alan Mack, who also hunted for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, describes the stroke of luck that led him and his team to rescue 23 innocent people from a torture house in Iraq

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: The 20th anniversary of Iraq invasion also marks a colossal failure of the mainstream media

Twenty years ago, President George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, toppling the despot Saddam Hussein and fomenting a kind of hell that Iraq is still grappling with today.

The Conversation

Christopher Hitchens was a model of the public intellectual as celebrity. Could he really be the saviour of the Left?

Future generations are very unlikely to credit Christopher Hitchens with saving the Left. Nor is he likely to be remembered as a great essayist like his long-time hero George Orwell, or even H.L. Mencken, after whom he named his 20-year column for The Nation magazine.

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The Guardian - UK

‘I warned the FBI about this guy Osama bin Laden’: the people who predicted disasters, from the 2008 crash to Covid

Whether it’s a terrorist attack or Donald Trump becoming US president: how do you live with being the person who foresaw a cataclysmic event?

Reuters

Al Qaeda's new leader Adel has $10 million bounty on his head

Seif al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces officer who is a high-ranking member of al Qaeda with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, is now the "uncontested" leader of the militant group, according to a new U.N. report on the organisation.

Daily Mirror

Inside eerie abandoned Osama Bin Laden's $7.5million family mansion in Florida

An eerily abandoned mansion on Johns Lake in Oakland, Florida, US was home to Osama Bin Laden's family, who was the world's most wanted man since the 9/11 terror attacks

Evening Standard

Protest as Taliban bar Afghan women from university

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Tuesday banned female students from attending universities effective immediately in the latest edict cracking down on women's rights and freedoms.Despite initially promising a more moderate rule respecting rights for women and minorities, the Taliban have widely implemented their strict interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia.They have…

France 24

No, this video doesn’t show football fans converting to Islam at Qatar’s World Cup

Rumours have been circulating online that four football fans that came to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup converted to Islam after watching a presentation by controversial Indian televangelist Zakir Naik, who had publically supported former Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Since November 20, 2022, they’ve been sharing a…

The Guardian - UK

Best podcasts of the week: How Osama bin Laden went from billionaire’s son to public enemy number one

In this week’s newsletter: What pushed the al-Qaeda founder to extremism, and to perpetrate the 9/11 attacks? A new show tells his whole story. Plus: five podcasts for nature lovers

The Independent UK

US releases Guantanamo Bay’s oldest prisoner after holding him two decades without charge

The Pakistani national was never charged with any crimes but had been considered too dangerous to be released

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