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LiveLeak was a British video sharing website headquartered in London. The site was founded on 31 October 2006, in part by the team behind the Ogrish.com shock site which closed on the same day. [ 2 ]
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was executed on 30 December 2006. [1] Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the Dujail massacre—the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail—in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him.
[87] [101] Bin Laden was unarmed, "wearing the local loose-fitting tunic and pants known as a kurta paijama," which were later found to have €500 and two phone numbers sewn into the fabric. [57] [88] [94] [102] Bin Laden peered through his bedroom door at the Americans advancing up the stairs, and the lead SEAL fired at him.
Bin Laden tried to convince the Saudi ulama to issue a fatwa condemning the American military deployment but senior clerics refused out of fear of repression. [115] Bin Laden's continued criticism of the Saudi monarchy led them to put him under house arrest, under which he remained until he was ultimately forced to leave the country in 1991. [116]
Osama bin Laden was killed after being shot in the head and chest, [15] [16] [17] during Operation Neptune Spear, [18] with Geronimo as the code word for bin Laden's capture or death. [19] The operation was a 40-minute raid by members of the United States special operations forces and Navy SEALs on his safe house [ 20 ] in Bilal Town ...
"The capture of Saddam will not save the U.S. from the world's condemnation for supporting the greater enemy, Israeli P.M. Ariel Sharon", said Selim Al-Hoss, ex-Lebanese Prime Minister. Palestine : Palestinian President Yasser Arafat 's government had no comment; however Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi , a senior Hamas leader, said the U.S. would "pay a ...
The Osama bin Laden video released on December 13, 2001. On November 10, 2001, U.S. military forces in Jalalabad found a video tape of bin Laden. [3]On December 13, 2001, the United States State Department released a video tape apparently showing bin Laden speaking with Khaled al-Harbi and other associates, somewhere in Afghanistan, before the U.S. invasion had driven the Taliban regime from ...
According to the sworn testimony of al-Qaeda member Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali in 2001, Osama bin Laden delivered a lecture in Pakistan in 1988. During this lecture he spoke against Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath party by warning his listeners about Saddam's expansionist ambitions in the Middle East.