Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan: Joe Biden

October 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said the United States may be aware about Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's present location. Interacting with media persons in Washington, Qureshi said the US troops, engaged in a gruesome battle in Afghanistan, are equipped with sophisticated, state of art technology and weapons hence they may be aware about Laden's whereabouts.

October 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has said that the US and Pakistan both lost track of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden five years ago, The Dawn reports. Musharraf, who is on a lecture tour of the US currently, told students and delegates at a college in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that both Pakistani and US intelligence have failed to collect any details regarding Laden's whereabouts, and now they are even unable to ascertain whether he was dead or alive.

September 20th, 2009 Obama: focused war plan key to getting bin LadenWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says a tightly focused war strategy in Afghanistan will help with the hunt for the elusive Osama bin Laden. Obama says that when he took office, the U.S.

September 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A purported new message from Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has appeared on an Islamist website which has been used for such messages in the past, according to the US Intel-Centre which monitors such websites. It said the audio message, lasting 11 minutes and 20 seconds, was addressed to the American people and was accompanied by a still picture of bin Laden.

September 13th, 2009 Brother of Bin Laden dies in Saudi ArabiaRIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The family of Osama bin Laden has announced the death of one of the terror mastermind's brothers. In a full-page notice on Sunday in Al-Riyadh newspaper, the family said Thabet bin Laden passed away and the funeral is scheduled that afternoon in the holy city of Mecca.

July 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The son of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed by a US missile attack in Pakistan, US National Public Radio has reported. Saad bin Laden was believed killed in a missile strike from a US drone earlier this year, intelligence officials told the broadcaster Wednesday.

July 23rd, 2009 AP sources: Bin Laden son may have been killedWASHINGTON — Saad bin Laden, a son of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, may have been killed in a U.S. airstrike, U.S.

July 23rd, 2009 US thinks Bin Laden son was killed, not certainWASHINGTON — A U.S. counterterrorism official said Thursday that Saad bin Laden, a son of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, may have been killed, but that intelligence agencies are not certain of his fate.

June 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta said Thursday that Osama bin Laden, head of Al Qaeda terrorist network, is still in Pakistan and his capture remains the CIA's priority. "I guess one of our hopes is that as Pakistani military moves in, combined with our operations, we may have a better chance to get at him," said Panetta at the Capitol Hill.

June 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Leon Panetta has said that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, and expressed hope that the ongoing offensive of the Pakistan Army would help the CIA to locate and nab bin Laden. When enquired that whether he has specific information about bin Laden's whereabouts and that he is hiding inside Pakistan's territory, Panetta said: "The last information we had, that's still the case." "I guess one of our hopes is that as Pakistani military moves in, combined with our operations, we may have a better chance to get at him," said Panetta on the sidelines of a function in Capitol Hill.

May 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir Bhutto's government back in 1989. In fact, as premier Bhutto had 'warned America about Osama bin Laden in 1989 with a call to then US president George H.

April 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - There are no reports that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is alive or dead but the US is making all efforts to trace him, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said. The official made the remark while replying to reporters regarding a statement by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari who said citing intelligence that bin Laden might be dead but had no evidence.

April 17th, 2009 MUMBAI - In a glaring slip of tongue, Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani Friday uttered the name 'Obama bin Laden' instead of the infamous Osama bin Laden but quickly corrected himself.

April 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States has claimed that Osama Bin Laden along with other top Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders are hiding in Pakistan's ungoverned tribal areas along the Afghan border. "In the FATA, the western part of Pakistan in the mountains on the Afghan border, that is a war on terror.

January 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US president-elect Barack Obama vowed Wednesday to go after Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and prevent the terrorist organization from using safe havens along the Afghan-Pakistani border to carry out attacks. 'Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are our number one threat when it comes to American security,' Obama said.