'To give him space': Biden reveals why he told Obama to wait on Bin Laden raid
President-elect in new CNN film tells of agonized discussions but says he subsequently advised Obama to follow his instinctJoe Biden has revealed why he advised Barack Obama to wait to order the raid...
View ArticleThe day before 9/11: what was life like before the world changed?
The age of Big Brother and famous football victories seems like another time. But did the terrorists’ planes, as it seemed, really come out of nowhere?There is always an eeriness in the archives of...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden review – how the son of a brickie became...
Peter Bergen’s thoroughly researched biography of the notorious Islamist reveals his strikingly mundane, human sideJust over 10 years ago, US special forces killed Osama bin Laden in the house in...
View ArticleAl-Qaida: the terror group that learned the secret of longevity
Twenty years after 9/11, 33 years after it was first conceived, and against all the odds, the terrorist group survivesIn the summer of 1988, a dozen or so men gathered in the sweltering Pakistani...
View ArticleLives lost, poverty, an arms race, rights destroyed … the continuing cost of...
The US has now spent $8 trillion over 20 years in its response to the attacks. But the true price has been more than financialSuccessive US administrations since 2001 have spent $8tn – that’s to say...
View ArticleTV tonight: Martin Clunes in a true-crime drama about a case that haunted the...
A tense ITV drama serial follows the desperate, seemingly endless hunt for the so-called Night Stalker. Plus, David Beckham’s rise to stardom. Here’s what to watch this eveningContinue reading...
View ArticleFrom a Thatcher nutcracker to a Trump toilet brush: my curious collection of...
As a foreign correspondent I used to report on dictators and democrats. Now I collect them‘Emmanuel Macron? No, we have nothing at all. People were happy for a day or two after he was elected, but now...
View ArticlePrince Charles accepted £1m from family of Osama bin Laden, report claims
Future king allegedly accepted donation for his charity in 2013 but Clarence House disputes the claimsThe Prince of Wales received a £1m donation for his charity from relatives of Osama bin Laden,...
View Article'Justice has been delivered': al-Qaida leader killed in US drone strike,...
US President Joe Biden has announced the top al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan. The US president described the death of al-Zawahiri, who was...
View ArticleWho was Ayman al-Zawahiri? The al-Qaida leader who helped plot its deadliest...
A lifelong jihadist who became Osama bin Laden’s successor, Zawahiri waged a long war of terror against the US and its alliesReport: Ayman al-Zawahiri: al-Qaida leader killed in US drone...
View ArticleAyman al-Zawahiri obituary
Founder of al-Qaida with Osama bin Laden who went on to succeed him as its leaderAfter nearly two decades in hiding, the Egyptian terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri, successor to Osama bin Laden as head of...
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