EMM News Explorer: Osama bin Laden

Blair [-said]: We assess that at least until Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are dead or captured, al-Qaida will retain its resolute intent to strike the homeland,

NPRnews 02-FEB-10

Gaddafi [-told]: These people are heretics. They are followers of (Osama) Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri. They killed a number of civilians and police,

thestar 28-JAN-10

Omar [ wrote]: Bin Laden could not afford to get into a battle with the Taliban. He would lose, and he knew it,

dailytimesPK 27-JAN-10

Brennan [-said]: We're going to continue to relentlessly pursue Osama Bin Laden and Zawahiri and all the others at the senior leadership ranks,

CBSnews 27-JAN-10

Barack Obama [-told]: Bin Laden sending out a tape trying to take credit for a Nigerian student who engaged in a failed bombing attempt is an indication of how weakened he is because this is not something necessarily directed by him,

HindustanTimes 26-JAN-10

Omar [ wrote]: He (Osama bin Laden) could not afford to get into a battle with the Taliban. He would lose, and he knew it,

thestar 26-JAN-10

Rohan Gunaratna [ said]: The training and the definition of the attack was by the local leaders of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, so in many ways you can say bin Laden is exploiting for his benefit this particular attack,

NPRnews 24-JAN-10

Gunaratna [-said]: Today the operational relationship has somewhat suffered, but the ideological relationship is very strong and that is why bin Laden claimed this attack,

AP 24-JAN-10

David Ignatius [ said]: One thing that's obvious is that we're so hungry for information about the location of Osama bin Laden and his number one deputy, it's clear we would just leap at any opportunity we saw to get a fix on where they were,

CBSnews 06-JAN-10

Mottaki [-said]: We do not know how the individual they referred to as Bin Laden's daughter entered the Saudi Embassy and Iran in the first place,

globalsecurity 26-DEC-09

Mottaki [-said]: We were informed by the Saudi Arabian embassy ... some time ago that one of bin Laden's daughters is in the Saudi embassy in Tehran,

trendnews 25-DEC-09

Mottaki [-said]: Some time ago, the Embassy of Saudi Arabia informed us that one of the daughters of Bin Laden is in the embassy,

HindustanTimes 25-DEC-09

Mottaki [-told]: We have been informed by the Saudi embassy in Tehran that the daughter of bin Laden was in the embassy and intended to leave the country,

earthtimes 24-DEC-09

Omar [-writes]: For the first time, I realized that some of the men surrounding my father might be dangerous, even to the sons of Osama bin Laden,

asiatimes 23-DEC-09

Friedman [-asks]: How many fatwas -- religious edicts -- have been issued by the leading bodies of Islam against Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda?

middle 21-DEC-09

Petraeus [ said]: There has always been a significant focus of resources to get Bin Laden, and while he has not been caught, the effort has been successful in the overall fight against terrorism,

dailytimesPK 17-DEC-09

Petraeus [ said]: There has always been a significant focus of resources to get Bin Laden, and while he hasn't been caught, the effort has been successful in the overall fight against terrorism,

news 16-DEC-09

Emine Bozkurt [ said]: People suspected of terrorism or of links with Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida or the Taliban can end up on a UN ’black list of terrorists’ without knowing it.

irish 16-DEC-09

Gates [answered:]: Well,we don't know for a fact where Osama bin Laden is.If we did,we'd go get him.

EgyptianGazette 07-DEC-09

Gates [-said]: Well, we don’t know for a fact where Osama bin Laden is, if we did, we’d go get him,

Infopak 07-DEC-09

Gates [-said]: We don't know for a fact where Osama bin Laden is. If we did, we'd go and get him,

msnbc 06-DEC-09

Gates [answered:]: Well, we don't know for a fact where Osama bin Laden is. If we did, we'd go get him.

smh 06-DEC-09

Gates [-told]: Well, we don't know for a fact where Osama bin Laden is. If we did, we'd go get him,

HindustanTimes 06-DEC-09

Gates [-said]: We don’t know for a fact where Osama bin Laden is. If we did, we’d go and get him,

HindustanTimes 06-DEC-09

Gates [said:]: Well, we don't know for a fact where Osama Bin Laden is. If we did, we'd go get him.

rferl 06-DEC-09

Obama [-said]: only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama Bin Laden.

rferl 06-DEC-09

Rashid [-says]: He has not been seen either in Pakistan or in Afghanistan. But the conclusion about bin Laden is that he is on the Pakistan side of the border simply because it is safer to be [in Pakistan] in the sense that Afghanistan is very much a free field of fire for U.S. forces,

globalsecurity 05-DEC-09

Gilani [said:]: I doubt the information which you are giving is correct because I don’t think Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan.

TheScotsman 04-DEC-09

Brown [-announce]: I don't think Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan.

sundaymail 04-DEC-09

Riedel [-said]: The entire western intelligence community have been looking for bin Laden for the last seven years and haven’t come upon a source of information like this,

timesofindia 04-DEC-09

Gilani [-said]: I doubt the information, which you are giving is correct because I don't think Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan,

EgyptianGazette 04-DEC-09

Gilani [-said]: I doubt the information which you are giving is correct because I don't think Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan,

thestar 03-DEC-09

Gilani [-said]: I doubt the information which you are giving is correct because I don’t think Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan

apakistannews 03-DEC-09

Brown [-said]: Osama Bin Laden has never been near to being caught.

globalsecurity 03-DEC-09

Yusuf Raza Gilani [ said]: I don’t think Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan,

euronews 03-DEC-09

Yusuf Raza Gilani [-said]: I don't think Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan,

globalsecurity 03-DEC-09

Gordon Brown [said:]: People are going to ask why, eight years after 2001, Osama bin Laden has never been near to being caught.

focusnews 02-DEC-09

Franks [-wrote]: We don’t know to this day whether bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001,

ISN 01-DEC-09

Rashid [-said]: It will be much more difficult to capture bin Laden now because this entire tribal border belt is in the hands of the Pakistani Taliban,

thestar 30-NOV-09

Brown [said yesterday:]: People are going to ask, eight years after 2001, why has Osama bin Laden never been near to being caught? We believe he is in Pakistan. Why is [Ayman al-] Zawahiri, who is the number two in control, never been caught? And what can the Pakistan authorities do that is far more effective to help us make sure that the al-Qa'ida threat is dealt with in Pakistan itself? We will want to see more evidence of Pakistan action not just troops in South Waziristan but the whole of the government machine taking action.

independent 30-NOV-09

Meyer [-said]: What he was trying to do was to draw the lessons of 9/11 and apply them to the situation in Iraq which led -- I think not inadvertently but deliberately -- to a conflation of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein,

news 26-NOV-09

Utiashvili [-said]: [bin Laden] was trying to convey a message to other countries that some countries have been abandoned and they might be abandoned too, which of course is not true,

geotimes 12-OCT-09

Rashid [-said]: Osama Bin Laden completely ingratiates himself with the Taliban,

CBSnews 07-OCT-09

Kadyrov [-noted that]: The Caucasus is Russia's strategic frontier. If they take away the Caucasus from Russia it's like taking away half of Russia. In their time, the Americans created Bin Laden, taught him the art of terrorism. Now they are blanketing us with groups of foreigners. These are not ‘freedom fighters' - these are brilliantly trained terrorists. We are fighting in the mountains with the American and English special services. They are fighting not against Kadyrov, not against traditional Islam; they are fighting aga

jamestown 01-OCT-09

Musharraf [-said]: Even on Pakistan Television these days, talk shows are going on saying that he has met Osama Bin Laden five times – five times before 9/11 – and he has been financed by Osama,

dailytimesPK 25-SEP-09

Rashid [ said]: The top leadership is too ideological, too committed to bin Laden and to global Jihad, too anti-American,

alertnet 24-SEP-09

Haqqani [-told]: Musharraf wasn’t fully playing ball with the US in the hunt for bin Laden,

dailytimesPK 13-SEP-09

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