WASHINGTON– United States lawmakers are now questioning whether the Pakistani military knew that Osama Bin Laden was living amongst them. If Pakistan knew of his whereabouts, many predict that U.S. relations with Pakistan will ultimately become worse.
After the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of U.S. soldiers, it got us thinking of who are the worst terrorists of all-time. Below is a list we came up with. Let us know if you think we forgot anybody on it. 10. The death toll was 800,000 in what many call Suharto’s […]
In September 11, 2001, I was in the Language Resource Center of my alma mater during work study when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were impaled by 767 jets. We watched in horror, as terror unfolded that day.
NewsOne’s Bakari Kitwana interviews Vijay Prashad about the implications of the recent killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Ladan. Kitwana and Prashad discuss the American public’s euphoria surrounding this news and what this death means for the war in Afghanistan, and the future of America’s enemies—from Al Qaeda to the Taliban. They also talk […]
Infidel. It’s what the Christian Right and the Tea Partiers accuse Obama of being: Secret Muslim. Foreigner. Traitor. It’s also what some in the Muslim world may have branded Obama for failing to adopt the faith of his fathers. And now that Obama has martyred the Muslim world’s foremost zealot — exasperating his enemies at home […]
Minutes after President Obama announced the news that Bin Laden has been killed, many of our BlackPlanet community members began to react to the news that has brought some measure of peace to the families who had victims of his various terrorist attacks. Below are some of the comments by some Black Planet members: By […]
Many people are criticizing President Obama today for burying Osama Bin Laden at sea directly after his death at the hands of NAVY SEALs. While the majority of the country is content with bin Laden dead, many feel he didn’t deserve a proper burial for his thousands of murders. Below is a description of what […]
The mission was to get Osama Bin Laden for ten years and the efforts were redoubled when President Obama instructed NAVY SEALs he wanted Osama delivered dead. But many people don’t know what NAVY SEALs are or what they do. U.S. attack helicopters crossed from Afghanistan into Pakistan on Sunday and inserted an elite Navy […]
WASHINGTON — Still-secret photos of the dead Osama bin Laden show a precision kill shot above his left eye, a U.S. official said, as fresh details emerged of an audacious American raid that netted potentially crucial al-Qaida records as well as the body of the global terrorist leader. President Barack Obama is going to ground […]
