Bin Laden’s No. 2, Zawahri, is Al Qaeda’s new leader

More than six weeks after Osama bin Laden was killed in an American commando raid, Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda’s No. 2, is assuming the leadership of the international terrorist organization, according to a statement posted online Thursday. (more…)

Al-Qaida in Iraq supports al-Zawahiri , vows revenge

Al-Qaida in Iraq on Monday pledged support for al-Qaida’s No. Two leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and vowed to revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. forces in Pakistan. (more…)

US Debating release of Bin Laden’s Corpse photos

The Obama administration has photographs of Osama bin Laden’s dead body and officials are debating what to do with them and whether they should be released to the public, officials tell ABC News. (more…)

New Details Emerge About Killing Of Bin Laden

The U.S. was prepared to take Osama bin Laden alive during a raid on a compound north of Islamabad, a top administration official said Monday as President Obama declared it “a good day for America.” (more…)

Burying bin Laden at sea an elegant solution

As I watched news reports of the death of Osama bin Laden late Sunday night and into the morning, I worried about one thing: What would be done with his body?

Bin Laden urged an end to reliance on the U.S. dollar

Osama bin Laden urged an end to reliance on the U.S. dollar as one solution to the global financial crisis and blamed developed countries for climate change, in an audiotape said to be of the al Qaeda leader.

The authenticity of the tape, aired on Friday and the second by bin Laden to air on Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera this week, could not be immediately confirmed.

“It is necessary for us to avoid doing business in the dollar, and to finish with it in the fastest possible time,” bin Laden said on the brief tape ,  without recommending any other currency as the replacement for the Dollar.

Bin Laden also blamed Western countries for climate change.

“Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality,” he said. “All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.” Reuters

Saudi FM urges Iran to allow Bin Laden’s daughter to leave

Saudi Arabia urged Iran on Saturday to allow a daughter of Osama Bin Laden , who fled house arrest and sought refuge in the Saudi embassy in Tehran, to leave the country if she wishes.
Iman bin Laden and five siblings had been held in Tehran since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported last month. Iman, 17, escaped during a rare trip outside in November and made her way to the embassy, the paper said.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told a news conference in Riyadh that Iman should be allowed to leave Iran.
“We consider this to be a purely humanitarian issue and we are in talks with the Iranian government to treat it as such and leave the choice of leaving to the girl,” he said. Reuters

Iran confirmed that Bin Laden’s daughter at Saudi embassy

Iran is confirming a daughter of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is at the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, but says it doesn’t know how she entered the country.
A Saudi newspaper reported Wednesday that the 17-year-old, Eman, went to the embassy seeking refuge after eluding guards who have held her, her sister and four brothers under house arrest for eight years.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on a TV talk show Thursday that Iran had no idea she was in the country until it heard from the embassy. USA Today

Bin Laden’s family under house arrest in Iran

Iman Bin Laden, the daughter of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, has sought refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Iran after succeeding in escaping Iranian guards watching over her. Iman disclosed in a telephone call to her brother Abdullah who lives in Syria that she and five of her brothers and sisters have been detained by the Iranian authorities since the US invasion of Afghanistan at the end of 2001. They are: Saad who is now 30 years old, Othman 25, Fatima 22, Hamzah 20, Iman 17, and Bakr 15.”
The 29 year old Omar Bin Laden who lives in Qatar told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Bin Laden family of his first wife Najwa, a Syrian living in Damascus, did not know that her daughter Iman and her other brothers and sisters had been alive all these past years until she contacted her family one month ago. He added : There are five in Saudi Arabia and three in Syria. Source: Asharq Al-Awsat