It didn't figure. US Intelligence released footage of a grey-bearded, dishevelled figure wrapped in a shawl and wearing a woollen hat, and then it said that this same old man had been calling the shots on al Qaeda's plots around the globe.
Plethora of suspicions have arisen around the killing of Osama bin Laden in the wake of the much hailed raid on the al-Qaida mastermind, brewing conspiracy theories that it was just a fiction.
Obama pivots from bin Laden's death to economy
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday she has "no idea" what she and the rest of President Barack Obama's national security team were watching at the precise moment that a photographer snapped what has become an iconic image of the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
The US military assault that killed Osama bin Laden at his hideaway in Pakistan will inevitably alter Washington's approach to Islamabad -- and India may stand to gain.
When Osama bin Laden's men flew airliners into New York's World Trade Center 10 years ago, they sparked an outpouring of solidarity from Europe, captured by a French newspaper under the headline "We are all Americans now".
India may nervously wonder if Osama bin Laden's death will hasten a triumphalist U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and leave New Delhi exposed to an unfriendly, Pakistan-dominated neighbourhood and unfettered militancy in its backyard.
The killing of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden means that the world's biggest terrorist has vanished, but the international community still has a long way to go in its fight against terrorism.
The killing of Osama bin Laden will dent the Islamist insurgency in Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus, a regional leader said on Tuesday.
The United States will aim to destroy al Qaeda's central organization now that its leader Osama bin Laden has been killed and its capabilities degraded by U.S. operations, a top White House adviser said on Tuesday.
Pakistani media on Tuesday said the killing of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in a US commando raid would heap embarrassment on authorities hard pressed to explain how he had been able to live in the country undetected for years.
As a candidate, Barack Obama pledged "we will kill bin Laden" by striking in Pakistan, if necessary, without that country's consent.
A decade after the September 11 attacks, US President Barack Obama was able to declare on Sunday: "Justice has been done" after Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces operating deep inside Pakistan and was confirmed dead.
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