New details have emerged that while Director of the CIA, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta divulged Top Secret details of the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, potentially jeopardizing the safety of the Navy SEALs who executed the raid, and

From a small room in a Pakistan house, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) was shaken to its core in 2011. Within the data seized from Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound was the al Qaeda plan to blow up oil tankers in U.S. waters to create an “

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did

President Obama can claim to have killed Osama bin Laden. He can reasonably take credit for helping to avert a second Great Depression. But Obama has yet to master his management of the federal government, as shown this month by the disturbing revela

NEW YORK -- A New York appeals court has ruled that a construction company started by Osama bin Laden's father cannot be held liable for...

The guy who says he shot Osama Bin Laden may be more known in the community for shooting off at the mouth. Last month Esquire published an in-depth look at the miserable life of the the supposed hero identified as "Shooter." Immediatel

As Sulaiman Abu Ghayth, son-in-lawof Osama bin Laden, was pleading not guilty to charges ofterrorist conspiracy in a federal court in New York, severalcongressional Republicans were accusing the Barack Obamaadministration of going easy on terrorism.

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, appeared before a US federal court in New York on Friday and pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to kill Americans. During a 15-minute arraignment hearing at the southern district court in lo

Osama bin Laden's recently captured son-in-law may have valuable intelligence from the decade he spent in Iranian prison, U.S. officials told NBC News. CIA agents seized Sulaiman Abu Ghaith in Jordan last week and took him to New York City, wher

Tel Aviv MarketWatch -- U.S. authorities arrested a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and flew him to New York to face trial, media reports on Thursday say. Sulaiman abu Ghaith, a former spokesman for al-Qaeda, had been living for some years in Iran, rep

A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and longtime suspected member of al Qaeda has been captured and brought to New York City by U.S. counterterrorism operatives.

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was seized by CIA agents and taken to the United States after Turkey deported him to Jordan this month, a Turkish newspaper reported on Thursday. Abu Ghaith, the former spokesman of the Al-Qaeda networ

The military hones its strategies with role-playing simulations. The technique can help your business, too--but you have to make it realistic.Before the SEALs raided Osama bin Laden’s hideout, they worked for months on their strategy, studying

Ever since the Osama bin Laden raid, America has gone bonkers for U.S. Navy SEALs and Military Special Operators in general. Skip to the units > The Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, is scheduled for spending and personnel increases while the

The doctor who helped the CIA identify Osama Bin Laden's Pakistani hideout was reportedly recruited by the spy service through a large NGO called Save the Children Federation. The organization vehemently denies any connection to the terrorist&ap

LOS ANGELES, Feb 24 (Reuters) - "Zero Dark Thirty," aboutthe decade-long U.S. hunt for Osama bin Laden, has received moreattention in the U.S. Congress than it did at the Oscars onSunday, amid political fallout over its depiction of torture andallege

Before the recent terrorist attack on a natural-gas facility in Algeria, internal BP reports in 2011 and 2012 cautioned the oil giant's staff that the killing of Osama bin Laden could give rise to new threats from al Qaeda offshoots.

Esquire fired back this morning at a report from Stars and Stripes, a military affairs newspaper in Washington, that claimed its story about the man who killed Osama bin Laden was riddled with factual errors. The Stars and Stripes piece, written

While everyone seems shocked to hear the Navy SEAL who shot Osama Bin Laden is going through hard times, there are some clarifications worth noting in terms of military benefits. Published by the Center For Investigative Reporting in conjunction

The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed (Esquire) G7 fires currency warning shot, Japan sanguine (Reuters) North Korea Confirms It Conducted 3rd Nuclear Test (NYT) Italian Police Arrest Finmeccanica CEO (WSJ) Legacy, political calendar fram

Esquire's interview with the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama bin Laden is under fire for a questionable segment surrounding the military service member's...

The Navy SEAL Team Six member who shot and killed Osama bin Laden has opened up about the hardships of life after the mission. In...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Pakistan plans tobuild a $30 million amusement park and outdoor activity centreon the edge of the northwestern town of Abbottabad, where U.S.special forces killed Osama bin Laden, an official said onMonday.

A private venture in Pakistan will build a $30 million amusement park at the location where Osama bin Laden was killed.

Pakistan is planning to build a $30 million amusement park with a zoo and adventure sports facilities in the town where Osama bin Laden was...

Abbottabad, Pakistan—the town best known as the place Osama bin Laden was tracked down and killed—hopes to boost tourism with a new amusement park. "This project has nothing to do with Osama bin Laden," provincial minister for tourism&nbs

You may need to do a double take to realize Jessica Chastain was in not one, but two of the weekend's highest-grossing films. Nominated for a Best Actress Oscar in Osama Bin Laden flick, "Zero Dark Thirty," Chastain also appeared nearly unrecognizabl

Washington wants answers about the film’s depiction of the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Mokhtar Belmokhtar lost an eyefighting in Afghanistan, swears allegiance to al Qaeda and namedhis son after Osama bin Laden.

Kathryn Bigelow's controversial Osama bin Laden film "Zero Dark Thirty" had no problem beating out the other newcomers this weekend, which was a bit of a surprise. Ryan Gosling's period piece "Gangster Squad" grossly underperformed at theaters. Howev

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Sony Pictures' "Zero Dark Thirty" is the No. 1 U.S. box-office attraction for this weekend, according to theatrical tracking site BoxOfficeMojo.com. The film about the hunt and killing of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden took

LOS ANGELES, Jan 13 (Reuters) - "Zero Dark Thirty,"Hollywood's re-telling of the decade-long manhunt for Osama binLaden, captured the No. 1 spot on movie box office charts overthe weekend with $24...

Jan 13 (Reuters) - "Zero Dark Thirty," Hollywood'sre-telling of the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden,captured the No. 1 spot on movie box office charts over theweekend with $24 million in...

For “Zero Dark Thirty,” about the U.S. government’s hunt for Osama bin Laden, Sony had to hunt for the right release date.

WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Twenty months after U.S.special forces killed Osama bin Laden, the United States told acourt on Thursday it is not ready to release images taken afterthe al Qaeda...

A conservative watchdog is asking a federal appeals court to shut down government claims that releasing postmortem pictures of Osama bin Laden would endanger national security. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will consider today Judici

On Wednesday military prosecutors in the case of former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning said they would introduce evidence that WikiLeaks materials Manning is accused of passing to Julian Assange were found at Osama bin Laden's safe house,

Prosecutors in Colorado will lay out the evidence against James Holmes, the suspect in the Aurora movie theater massacre. The federal government will press its case to keep photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse secret.

Bloody interrogations like those depicted in Hollywood's take on the hunt for Osama bin Laden "Zero Dark Thirty" never really happened, according to the former CIA official who ran such programs. "The truth is that no one was bloodied or beaten in th

WASHINGTON Jan 3 (Reuters) - Three U.S. senators, includingthe chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have stepped uptheir pressure on the CIA over its response to "Zero DarkThirty," a new film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

The new movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, 'Zero Dark Thirty' arrived in theaters last week and reviews have been mixed, but the acting head of the CIA is not impressed. Michael Morell, standing in after David Petraeus resigned, issued this st

On Wednesday, three Senate leaders condemned Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" for its "grossly inaccurate" portrayal of the events leading to the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Most critics Hollywood's version of the hunt for Osama bin Laden have honed in on its implication that 'enhanced interrogation techniques' (i.e. torture) indirectly led to the discovery of bin Laden's Abbottabad safe house when most experts say

"Zero Dark Thirty" has been slammed by several senators for its depiction of torture, but the issue only appears to have helped it at the box office. Director Kathryn Bigelow's dramatization of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden racked up an estimated $124

We checked 'Zero Dark Thirty' yesterday, and the story of the 11-year hunt for Osama bin Laden has its issues, but it also has some very cool details.   The filmmakers achieved considerable access to people with knowledge of the manhun

Zero Dark Thirty is military terminology for half past midnight, the time at which the pivotal raid to capture Osama bin Laden was scheduled by the CIA. There’s no more perfect title for a film this year, because it manages to suggest a witchin

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Several top U.S. senatorschided Sony Pictures on Wednesday, saying new film "Zero DarkThirty" is "grossly inaccurate and misleading" for suggestingtorture helped the United States capture Osama bin Laden.

President Barack Obama's approval rating in a new CBS poll has reached a sky-high 57 percent, the highest mark since the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011.  Obama's approval rating has consistently been 50 percent in the wake of his re-e

NEW YORK, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Jessica Chastain carries theweight of starring in one of the year's most anticipated films,"Zero Dark Thirty," about the decade-long hunt and eventualkilling of Osama bin Laden.

Joe Morgenstern reviews Kathryn Bigelow's film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.