The code name Geronimo controversy came about after media reports that the U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden used the code name "Geronimo" to refer to either the overall operation, to fugitive bin Laden himself or to the act of killing or capturing bin Laden.. Press reports claimed that "Geronimo" was used in the raid to refer to bin Laden himself, but this was later …

Seymour Myron „Sy“ Hersh (* 8.April 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) ist ein US-amerikanischer investigativer Journalist; er war bis 2015 regelmäßiger Mitarbeiter beim Wochenmagazin The New Yorker.. Seymour Hersh wurde 1969 weltbekannt, als er während des Vietnamkriegs die Kriegsverbrechen der US-Armee im Massaker von My Lai aufdeckte. 2004 publizierte er zum …

Saʻd bin ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin (Arabic: سعد بن أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن; 1979 – 2009), better known as Saad bin Laden, was one of Osama bin Laden's sons. He continued in his father's footsteps by being active in Al Qaeda, and was being groomed to be his heir apparent. He was killed in an American drone strike in 2009.

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden (2012) is a military memoir by a former member of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) who participated in the mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.The book was written by Matt Bissonnette under the pen name Mark Owen. It details …

The Bojinka plot (Arabic: بوجينكا; Tagalog: Oplan Bojinka) was a large-scale, three-phase terrorist attack planned by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for January 1995. They planned to assassinate Pope John Paul II; blow up 11 airliners in flight from Asia to the United States with the goal of killing approximately 4,000 passengers and shutting down air travel around the …

Beckner's pilot script, written in March 2001, posited a re-invented CIA tasked with a "War on Terror" after Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist organization plots a lethal attack on the West. The pilot was to premiere at CIA headquarters on September 18, 2001, and set to air on CBS September 21, 2001; however, the actual 9/11 attacks ...

Mohammed Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani (Arabic: محمد ماني احمد القحطاني) (sometimes transliterated as al-Kahtani) (born November 19, 1975) is a Saudi citizen who was detained as an al-Qaeda operative for 20 years in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba.Qahtani allegedly tried to enter the United States to take part in the September 11 attacks as the 20th ...

Abbottabad (/ ˈ æ b ə t ə b ɑː d /; Urdu and Hindko: ایبٹ آباد, romanized: aibṭabād, pronounced [ɛːbʈəˈbaːd̪]) is the capital city of Abbottabad District in the Hazara region of eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.It is the 40th largest city in Pakistan and fourth largest in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population. It is about 120 km (75 mi) north of Islamabad ...

These people include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, believed to be the No. 3 Al-Qaeda leader before he was captured in Pakistan in 2003; Ramzi bin al-Shibh, an alleged would-be 9/11 hijacker; and Abu Zubaydah, who was believed to be a link between Osama bin Laden and many Al-Qaeda cells, who were captured in Pakistan in March 2002.

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, abbreviated as Ghost Wars, is a book written by Steve Coll, published in 2004 by Penguin Press. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Summary. The book provides an in-depth account of ...

Ayman al-Zawahiri (Arabisch: ايمن الظواهري) (Caïro, 19 juni 1951 – Kabul, 31 juli 2022) was de ideoloog van het terroristische netwerk Al Qaida en sinds mei 2011 de opvolger van Osama bin Laden. Washington houdt hem medeverantwoordelijk voor de aanslagen van 11 september 2001 in de Verenigde Staten en zette een beloning van 25 miljoen dollar op zijn hoofd.