Pakistan government teetering on the brink as leaders face court charges

telegraph 10-FEB-12

Somalia profile

bbc 10-FEB-12

Rise of the Osombie: bin Laden rises from the dead as a flesh-hungry zombie in new flick

dailymail 10-FEB-12

Qaeda leader says Somalia's Shabaab joins group-SITE

alertnet 09-FEB-12

Famous Spain judge convicted of misusing authority (AP)

news 09-FEB-12

UK's Cameron calls Jordan's king over extremist (AP)

news 09-FEB-12

Trial of accused Bali bomber to start next week (AP)

news 09-FEB-12

Man survives 48 hours buried under Pakistan factory rubble

telegraph 08-FEB-12

Minister visits Jordan over Qatada

icWales 08-FEB-12

Pakistan jumps to 5th in ICC Test ranking after England 3-0 whitewash

app 07-FEB-12

Special operations' Afghan role could be expanded (AP)

news 07-FEB-12

UK Judge Orders Radical Preacher Released on Bail

ABCnews 06-FEB-12

Pakistan PM to visit Qatar to talk Afghan peace (AP)

news 04-FEB-12

AP: Filipino troops still search for terrorist

AP 03-FEB-12

US plans to halt Afghan combat role early, Kabul surprised

alertnet 02-FEB-12

Sherry Rehman stresses need for transparent, predictable Pakistan-US ties

app 02-FEB-12

Philippines Says Raid Killed Senior Militants

IHT 02-FEB-12

NATO report says Pakistan backing Taliban

aljazeera 01-FEB-12

US report urges tougher stance against Iran

aljazeera 01-FEB-12

Firdous urges media to highlight Kashmir issue

app 01-FEB-12

US lawmakers take next step on new Iran sanctions

alertnet 31-JAN-12

Afghan police: Man kills wife for giving birth to daughter instead of son

cnn 31-JAN-12

Obama backs Pakistan drone raids

bbc 31-JAN-12

:Take a Fresh Look at Afghanistan

watchingamerica 30-JAN-12

US working hard to improve relations with Pakistan: Pentagon

app 29-JAN-12

Rehmarkable turnaround gives Pakistan series win

dawn 28-JAN-12

Pakistan knew where Bin Laden was all along, Leon Panetta admits as he reveals intelligence source for Osama raid

dailymail 28-JAN-12

Republican rivals clash over immigration

aljazeera 27-JAN-12

Iran's nuclear plants soon 'immune' to attack

montrealgazette 27-JAN-12

'I have great news for you': the moment Barack Obama told father of Somalia hostage she had been freed

telegraph 26-JAN-12

Shahbaz has challenged state over Mansoor’s security: Kaira

app 26-JAN-12

Obama hits the road

cnn 26-JAN-12

Panetta Outlines US Defense Budget Decisions

voanews 26-JAN-12

U.S. Army chief Gen Ray Odierno admits he's 'comfortable' with less troops as Pentagon readies cuts

dailymail 26-JAN-12

Obama calls for reform to US tax system

aljazeera 25-JAN-12

Somalia hostages freed in US raid

bbc 25-JAN-12

Fired spokesman alleges PMO intimidation of pipeline opponent

montrealgazette 25-JAN-12

Obama praises special ops forces in hostage rescue

washtimes 25-JAN-12

Gilani reverses earlier criticism of military

dawn 25-JAN-12

Officials: Drone strike kills four in Pakistan

cnn 23-JAN-12

Gingrich wins Republican poll in S Carolina

aljazeera 22-JAN-12

Ex-generals say Pakistan's Musharraf should be allowed home

cnn 22-JAN-12

Internet's Dr Evil sprang electronic locks in his 'Bond villain lair' and retreated to safe room as police swooped

dailymail 22-JAN-12

Nigerian city under curfew after bombings

cnn 21-JAN-12

Western aid workers kidnapped in Pakistan

aljazeera 20-JAN-12

Senior al Qaeda operative 'killed by US drone strike'

telegraph 20-JAN-12

Pakistan vs England: Day 3

dawn 19-JAN-12

Pakistan PM defends president at Supreme Court (AP)

news 19-JAN-12

VOA reporter killed in Pakistan

javno 18-JAN-12

Pakistani PM's lawyer: No harm in graft case (AP)

news 18-JAN-12

Rivals assail Romney before S Carolina vote

aljazeera 17-JAN-12

MFN status not yet accorded to India: Senate told

app 17-JAN-12

SC slaps Gilani with contempt

dawn 17-JAN-12

[ said]: We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian,

guardian 10-FEB-12

[ wrote]: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple: Because you attack us and continue to attack us,

ibtimes 17-JAN-12

[ ask]: critique by telling them to

IHT 16-DEC-11

[ ask]: >White House candidates of following a policy of appeasement on the foreign policy front, President Barack Obama on Thursday offered an icy riposte:

indiatimes 09-DEC-11

[ ask]: of America's foes by saying they should

rferl 09-DEC-11

[ ask]: foreign policy to

ynetnews 08-DEC-11

[-had said]: Do not let America's front and its troops seem hard and become great in your eyes, as we have struck them repeatedly and they were defeated frequently and they are the most cowardly at the time of encounter,

CBSnews 28-SEP-11

[added:]: he [the Seal] would almost certainly have been killed had they blown themselves up but he would have absorbed some of the blast and potentially saved the two Seals behind him.

sundaymail 03-AUG-11

[adding:]: I think now is the moment...I do believe that if we continue this effort, we can really cripple al-Qaida as a threat to (the US).

indiatimes 10-JUL-11

[-wrote]: >al-Qaeda had been unable to effectively replace senior terrorists that had been killed and that al-Qaeda has failed in its effort to portray America as a nation at war with Islam, thereby draining more widespread support.

telegraph 24-JUN-11

[-wrote]: jihad,

AP 24-JUN-11

[-expressed]: Mr Obama said on Wednesday in his speech to the nation on withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.

telegraph 24-JUN-11

[-expressed]: enormous strain.

news 23-JUN-11

[-said]: It is a simple and clear equation,

newschannel5 19-JUN-11

[ would repeat]: informants who gave information to the CIA before the raid that left Osama bin Laden dead, officials said today. US

phantis 15-JUN-11

[-said]: With their strength and determination as our guide, we achieved a great victory three weeks ago.

mailonsunday 29-MAY-11

[-says]: A delay may cause the opportunity to be lost, and carrying it out before the right time will increase the number of casualties,

arabtimes 20-MAY-11

[-said]: The youth need to make necessary preparations and not act without consulting the experience of the honest ones and those who are far from half solutions and compromises with the oppressors.

irrawaddy 20-MAY-11

[-said]: The sun of revolution shined from the west and lit up the revolution in Tunis,

irrawaddy 20-MAY-11

[-said]: The winds of change will spread through the entire Islamic world, God willing,

irrawaddy 20-MAY-11

[-said]: My Muslim nation, we are monitoring with you this great historic event, and we join you with your joy and delight,

washtimes 20-MAY-11

[said that:]: arbitrary killing is not a solution to political problems

CBC 11-MAY-11

[said:]: Find me a wife

guardian 11-MAY-11

[-said]: Despite the difficulty of publicly disagreeing with our father, he never hesitated to condemn any violent attacks made by anyone, and expressed sorrow for the victims of any and all attacks.

guardian 11-MAY-11

[ confirming]: conclusive evidence

aljazeera 11-MAY-11

[ saying]: justice,

montrealgazette 11-MAY-11

[-reported]: I was injured ... and a lot of people were killed,

news 11-MAY-11

[ says]: undone

ibtimes 11-MAY-11

[saying:]: what is coming is greater and worse

trust 11-MAY-11

[said:]: Contrary to what Bush says and claims - that we hate your freedom. If that were true, then let him explain why did we not attack Sweden.

smh 08-MAY-11

[-reported]: So the message we wanted to convey through the plane of our hero, the fighter Umar Farouk, may God be with him, confirms a previous message which had been sent to you by our heroes of September 11,

haaretz 08-MAY-11

[adding that:]: the situation was comprehensively reviewed in the perspective of Pakistan's national security and foreign policy

sabanews 08-MAY-11

[said:]: America will not be able to dream of security until we live in security in Palestine. It is unfair that you live in peace while our brothers in Gaza live in insecurity.

telegraph 08-MAY-11

[-said]: For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples,

cnn 06-MAY-11

[-said]: We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy,

news 06-MAY-11

[-said]: bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt,

csmonitor 06-MAY-11

[believed:]: his network was strong enough [that] he'd get a heads-up

smh 06-MAY-11

[ confirms]: >Al-Qaeda

haveeru 06-MAY-11

[-comments]: misguided

antiguanews 05-MAY-11

[believed that:]: his network was strong enough to give him a heads-up

indiatimes 05-MAY-11

[said:]: The chief of army staff made it very clear that any similar action, violating the sovereignty of Pakistan, will warrant a review on the level of military/intelligence co-operation with the United States

ft 05-MAY-11

[ adding that]: kill-or-capture mission[*]made no attempt to surrender

timesofmalta 05-MAY-11

[believed:]: his network was strong enough he’d get a heads-up

examiner 05-MAY-11

[-stated]: Jihad will continue even if I am not there,

watchingamerica 04-MAY-11

[-also reported]: He would always stop and try to buy one if he saw one he liked along the side of the road. He loved honey too, claiming it could cure most ailments.

jpost 04-MAY-11

[ adding that]: overestimate the power of him and his followers

chinadaily 04-MAY-11

[believed:]: his network was strong enough he'd get a heads-up

telegraph 04-MAY-11

[was declared:]: public enemy number one.

japantimes 04-MAY-11

[-also writes that]: He didn't want them to inherit what he built simply because they were his sons. He wanted them to work from the bottom up.

dailymail 04-MAY-11

[-alleged]: As for you my children: Forgive me for not giving you except but a minimum amount of my time since I have begun my call for jihad,

dailymail 04-MAY-11

[ suggests that]: engaged in firefight

guardian 04-MAY-11

[-said]: When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like a strong horse,

wsj 03-MAY-11

[-later told]: I was enraged and went there at once,

wsj 03-MAY-11

[-said]: I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived,

guardian 03-MAY-11

[-said]: The jihad is continuing with strength, for Allah be all the credit, despite all the barbarity, the repressive steps taken by the American army and its agents, to the extent that there is no longer any mentionable difference between this criminality and the criminality of Saddam.

guardian 03-MAY-11

[-said]: A UN resolution passed more than half a century ago gave Muslim Kashmir the liberty of choosing independence from India. (US President) George Bush, the leader of the crusaders' campaign, announced a few days ago that he will order his converted agent (Pakistani President General Pervez) Musharraf to shut down the Kashmir mujahideen camps, thus affirming that it is a Zionist-Hindu war against Muslims ,

economictimes 03-MAY-11

Saeed [ said]: Yes once I had met Osama Bin Laden but that is an old story I met him probably in 1982 in Saudi Arabia and in that meeting we just waived at each other,

dawn 07-FEB-12

Rohrabacher [-said]: My bill would grant him US citizenship and send a direct and powerful message to those in the Pakistani government and military who protected the mastermind of 9/11 for all those years and who are now seeking retribution on those who helped to execute Osama bin Laden,

asiatimes 07-FEB-12

Rohrabacher [-said]: My bill would grant him US citizenship and send a direct and powerful message to those in the Pakistani government and military who protected the mastermind of 9/11 for all those years and who are now seeking retribution on those who helped to execute Bin Laden,

dailytimesPK 04-FEB-12

Biden [-said]: But the best way to sum up the job the president has done --- if you need a real shorthand -- Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive,

channelnewsasia 01-FEB-12

Biden [-said]: But the best way to sum up the job the president has done - if you need a real shorthand - Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive,

news24 01-FEB-12

Panetta [-said]: And because of that -- because for 10 years we had run into dead ends trying to track bin Laden down -- I thought for that reason alone, we had a responsibility to act,

globalsecurity 31-JAN-12

Clapper [-said]: With Osama bin Laden's death, the global jihadist movement lost its most iconic and inspirational leader,

npr 31-JAN-12

Obama [-said]: For the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq. For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country,

thetimes 25-JAN-12

Obama [-said]: One of my proudest possessions is the flag that the SEAL Team took with them on the mission to get bin Laden,

AP 25-JAN-12

Gingrich [-said]: He [bin Laden] was not a Chinese dissident,

ibtimes 17-JAN-12

Ijaz [argued that:]: the ISI’s watchful eye on bin Laden also would have had the advantage of creating plausible deniability with both the military and civilian wings of government, as we are now seeing…Put more bluntly, Pakistan intelligence service chiefs should once and for all wake up to the reality that every time they try to con the world into thinking they are a bunch of good guys protecting their country, they just get caught with their pants down –each time eroding further the nation’s credibility.

dailytimesPK 12-JAN-12

Ijaz [-argued that]: It seems implausible that Inter-Services Intelligence, the premier Pakistani spy agency, knew nothing about where bin Laden was. Indeed, it seems much more likely that elements within the agency knew exactly where he was and kept bin Laden within that compound on just the terms it wanted. In all of this, Pakistan has almost certainly acted as a knowing babysitter, watching over the terror master so he would do no further harm –as long as the babysitting fees were sufficient and recurring.

dailytimesPK 12-JAN-12

Rehman Malik [said yesterday:]: We will hit it like an enemy fort. But first we must erase everything related to Bin Laden from our country.

thesun 10-JAN-12

Rehman Malik [said:]: We will hit it like an enemy fort. But first we must erase everything related to bin Laden from our country.

deccanherald 10-JAN-12

Musharraf [-told]: I am very sure about my answer. Especially so because when they say bin Laden was there for five years, that means two years under my watch. Well, one cannot be sure of others, but one can be sure of oneself. And I am 100 per cent sure of myself that I did not know he was there,

nation 09-JAN-12

Musharraf [ said]: I believe Pakistan needs to justify and clarify the issue of Osama bin Laden having been found in Pakistan,

timesofoman 09-JAN-12

Gilani [-asked]: We are being asked by the judicial [Abbottabad] commission about issuance of visas (to Americans). But I want to ask how Osama bin Laden lived here for the past six years? On what type of visa was he living here,

tribune 23-DEC-11

McCain [-said]: I can only express satisfaction that the 'Dear Leader' is joining the likes of Gaddafi, bin Laden, Hitler and Stalin in a warm corner of hell,

indiatimes 20-DEC-11

McCain [ said]: I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Gadhafi, bin Laden, Hitler and Stalin in a warm corner of hell,

news 19-DEC-11

Stengel [-said]: Admiral McRaven captured bin Laden and [Middleton] captured our hearts. They represent people who affected us in one way or another who swayed the conversation - captured our imagination,

smh 15-DEC-11

Mansoor Ijaz [ said]: In many places he (ISI chief), in fact, explained that there was a lot of stress in the system because people could not understand who the blame should be pinned on for the fact that (Osama) bin Laden was on their soil,

irishsun 15-DEC-11

Stengel [-said]: Admiral McRaven captured bin Laden and (Middleton) captured our hearts. They represent people who affected us in one way or another who swayed the conversation—captured our imagination,

japantoday 15-DEC-11

Stengel [-said]: Admiral McCraven captured bin Laden and [Middleton] captured our hearts. They represent people who affected us in one way or another who swayed the conversation — captured our imagination,

examiner 15-DEC-11

Stengel [-said]: Admiral McCraven captured bin Laden and (Middleton) captured our hearts. They represent people who affected us in one way or another who swayed the conversation - captured our imagination,

montrealgazette 14-DEC-11

Stengel [-said]: Admiral McCraven captured bin Laden and (Middleton) captured our hearts. They represent people who affected us in one way or another who swayed the conversation — captured our imagination,

dawn 14-DEC-11

Stengel [-said]: Admiral McRaven captured Bin Laden and (Middleton) captured our hearts. They represent people who affected us in one way or another who swayed the conversation - captured our imagination,

gulfnews 14-DEC-11

Stengel [-said]: Admiral McCraven captured bin Laden and [Middleton] captured our hearts. They represent people who affected us in one way or another who swayed the conversation -- captured our imagination,

nowlebanon 14-DEC-11

Stengel [-said]: Admiral McCraven captured bin Laden and (Middleton) captured our hearts. They represent people who affected us in one way or another who swayed the conversation -- captured our imagination,

france24 14-DEC-11

Gingrich [-argued]: Their major military university is one mile from his compound. Now, do I think bin Laden was sitting a mile away from national military university and nobody noticed it in their intelligence service? It's inconceivable,

indiatimes 08-DEC-11

Huntsman [-said]: I think we need an honest conversation about what we have achieved. We have dismantled the Taliban, we’ve had free elections, we’ve killed Osama bin Laden, we have achieved some very important goals,

ABCnews 23-NOV-11

Kelly [-said]: He talked about changing his name to Osama Hussein, to celebrate his heroes, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein,

focus 21-NOV-11

Sharif [-said that]: Abbottabad Commission had failed to deliver seven months after the May 2 raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

tribune 19-NOV-11

Musharraf [-said that]: They are very well dispersed and they are in very strong positions and also guarded. So I don't think it's as simple as the Osama bin Laden action or one point action, which is a soft target. These are very hard targets. And (they are kept) in places which are not accessible...

memri_home 18-NOV-11

Gingrich [-said]: The fact (is) that the Pakistanis, and think about this, hid (Osama) bin Laden for at least six years in a military city within a mile of their national defence university. And then they got mad at the people who turned him over to us. And we think those are the acts of allies? I think that's a pretty good idea to start at zero, and sometimes stay there,

indiatimes 14-NOV-11

Obama [-said]: This is the last time that Osama bin Laden was on the face of the Earth. And so there's a lot of history on this ship,

abs 13-NOV-11

Paul [-said]: I voted for the authority to go after bin Laden,

CBSnews 13-NOV-11

Malik [-said]: There were (US) intelligence agencies tracking Laden. We did not know of that. If we were sheltering him, we would know of this as well,

indiatimes 10-NOV-11

Hekmatyar [-said]: Bin Laden’s martyrdom was a huge loss. But today al Qaeda has become such a strong organisation that it cannot be weakened,

globalsecurity 04-NOV-11

Clinton [ said]: Osama bin Ladin and many of his top lieutenants are dead,

voanews 27-OCT-11

Obama [-said]: After a decade of war, we're turning the page and moving forward, with strength and confidence. The drawdown in Iraq allowed us to refocus on Afghanistan and achieve major victories against al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden . As we remove the last of our troops from Iraq, we're beginning to bring our troops home from Afghanistan.

upi 22-OCT-11

Obama [-said]: The drawdown in Iraq allowed us to refocus our fight against al-Qaida and achieve major victories against its leadership, including Osama bin Laden,

montrealgazette 21-OCT-11

Elliott Abrams [ says]: No doubt the killing of bin Laden will win some centrist votes,

usaToday 21-OCT-11

Musharraf [-said]: Perhaps a hit-and-run action with helicopters like they did with Osama bin Laden, but then how many such actions can they do?

AP 21-OCT-11

Miller [ said]: There was a reckoning with Osama bin Laden,

globalsecurity 21-OCT-11

Abdulmutallab [-said today]: s outburst came as jury selection got under way for his federal terror trial in Detroit , where the 24-year-old is acting as his own attorney and has previously told reporters they should stop reporting that Osama bin Laden was dead. 'Anwar is alive,

dailymail 04-OCT-11

Ronald Noble [ said]: It's a huge problem. They also have access to resources that allow them to hide from capture. But just to remind you; it took 10 years to track down Osama bin Laden,

allafrica 04-OCT-11

King [ said]: I’ve been briefed regularly over the past several years about operations against him. This is a 24/7 operation — he was the most-wanted person in the world, after bin Laden,

asiantribune 01-OCT-11

Obama [-said]: Bilaterally, the fallout of the raid resulting in the death of Osama bin Laden continued to complicate the United States-Pakistan relationship, further strained by a series of media reports based on alleged leaks from both the United States and Pakistan,

deccanherald 01-OCT-11

Bruce Hoffman [ said]: Osama bin Laden thought big and acted big,

usaToday 30-SEP-11

Toobin [-said]: No judge has ever evaluated it, and because of the weird legal setting, it's not clear that a court ever will. When you think about Osama bin Laden, Awlaki, they don't really have the opportunity to go to an American courtroom,

cnn 30-SEP-11

Peter King [ said]: For the past several years, Awlaki has been more dangerous even than Osama bin Laden had been,

telegraph 30-SEP-11

Hoffman [-observe]: First bin Laden and now al-Awlaki on a completely different continent,

npr 30-SEP-11

Rabbani [-also recalled]: Later on, some of the young Arabs decided to join the jihad. They formed a group under bin Laden's command. He was very quiet. He wouldn't talk much. You never got the feeling that he was a fighter, or that he even liked fighting.

rferl 24-SEP-11

Dumas [-said]: If they find him they'll kill him. Like Bin Laden,

rt 19-SEP-11

Petraeus [-said]: We thus assess that he will have more difficulty than did Osama bin Laden in maintaining the group’s cohesion and its collective motivation in the face of continued pressure,

guardiannewsngr 14-SEP-11

Paul [said:]: This whole idea, that the whole Muslim world is responsible for this and they're attacking us because we're free and prosperous, that is just not true. Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda have been explicit ... they have been explicit and they wrote and said that we attacked, we attacked America because you had bases on our holy land in Saudi Arabia, you do not give Palestinians fair treatment.

telegraph 13-SEP-11

Petraeus [-said]: We thus assess that he will have more difficulty than did Osama bin Laden in maintaining the group's cohesion and its collective motivation in the face of continued pressure,

trust 13-SEP-11

Ranstorp [-said]: Even (Osama) bin Laden said in early 2003, 2004, that if every country was like Sweden, there would be no terrorism,

cnn 11-SEP-11

Brennan [-said]: This is something that we have seen before as far as al-Qaida's intent. We know that we acquired material from the bin Laden compound in Pakistan that he was looking at the 9/11 anniversary as a possible time to carry out an attack,

msnbc 11-SEP-11

Card [-says]: And, believe it or not, I thought about UBL, Osama bin Laden. I did. I remembered the attack during the Clinton administration on the World Trade Center tower, so that's what I thought about.

CBSnews 10-SEP-11

Obama [-said]: and thanks to the remarkable courage and precision of our forces, we finally delivered justice to Osama bin Laden,

kuna 10-SEP-11

Chomsky [ says]: That Washington seemed bent on fulfilling bin Laden’s wishes was evident immediately after the 9/11 attacks,

dawn 09-SEP-11

Jerzy Buzek [stated:]: The attacks of 11 September 2001 shook the world order murdering almost 3 000 people from over 70 nations. The attacks opened an era which symbolically ended on 2 May 2011 with the death of Osama bin Laden in the compound of Abbottabad Pakistan. Terrorism was not born on 9/11 and it is not over with the death of Osama, but the world has changed in the last decade, and for the better. We have learnt the weaknesses of our enemy, its mentality, its techniques and its murderous credo. We have also grown stronge

europarl 09-SEP-11