Osama bin Laden’s son killed by US attack in Pakistan: Report

October 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - US may know the whereabouts of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Wednesday. Talking to newspersons in Washington, Qureshi said US troops equipped with state of the art technology and weapons were present in the region.

October 6th, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has said that he has no idea where the Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is hiding. Musharraf, who is currently on a lecture tour of the US, replying to a question that whether he believed Laden was hiding in the rough terrains of Pakistan's lawless tribal region, said: "Your guess is as good or as bad as mine.

October 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The United States has reiterated that top Taliban leaders including Mullah Omar are hiding in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan and carrying out their nefarious activities from there. Interacting with media persons here, Deputy Chief of the Mission, US Embassy, Gerald Feierstein said Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was alive and has taken refuge in Pakistan.

September 28th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Five people were killed Monday in car bomb attack near a police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, a TV report said. The attacker rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the car of former Taliban commander Maulana Abdul Hakim in the Bannu area in North West Frontier Province, Express TV channel reported.

September 26th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least four people were killed in a suicide attack on a police station in restive north-west Pakistan, television station GEO TV reported Saturday. The attackers used a pickup truck to carry out the attack in Bannu in North-West Frontier Province.

September 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Osama Bin Laden's close aide and a top leader of al Qaeda, Nazimuddin alias Yahyo, was killed in a drone attack in South Waziristan on September 14, intelligence sources have said. Yahyo, who was under surveillance for quite some time, was involved in some deadliest attacks on troops of Pakistan army's elite forces.

September 10th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said he believes that Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is dead. In an interview with the BBC, Zardari said: "It seems as if Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Ladin is no longer alive." Zardari reiterated that democracy was working well in Pakistan, and the government is determined to fight extremism and root out militancy from the country's soil.

July 28th, 2009 NEW YORK - Rahimullah Yousafzai, the only reporter to interview Osama bin Laden still believes the head of the Al Qaeda terror network is alive, even though many, including Pakistan's late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto have or had pronounced him dead in separate interviews post 9/11. According to CBS, Al Qaeda has issued more than 60 messages since 9/11.

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.

July 23rd, 2009 SLAMABAD - Al-Qaeda chief Osama-bin-Laden's son Saad-bin-Laden has reportedly been killed in a drone attack in Pakistan's insurgency hit Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). According to a US radio report, Saad, Laden's third son, was killed in a missile hit early this year.

July 12th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan has said that Osama bin Laden and other senior Al Qaeda leaders were not in the country and hence the US missile attacks in the country were futile, a media report said Sunday. "If Osama was in Pakistan we would know, with all the thousands of troops we have sent into the tribal areas in recent months," Pakistan interior minister Rehman Malik told The Sunday Times.

July 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden's son, Omar, has described his father as an evil man in his new memoir. According to the New York Daily News, Omar says that he first realized the depth of his father's evil when his beloved dogs were taken away and gassed in a chemical warfare experiment.

June 13th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan has rejected the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief, Leon Panetta's claims that Osama Bin Laden is hiding in the country. Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's spokesman Farhatullah Babar rebuffed Panetta's claims, saying reports about Bin Laden's presence in Pakistan do not have an iota of truth in them.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's latest audio tape, in which he has threatened the United States for supporting the Pakistan military's Swat offensive against the Taliban, suggests that both Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are closely associated. The tape, which went on-air almost simultaneously with Barack Obama's arrival in Saudi Arabia, accused the United States of sowing 'new seeds of hatred against America' for supporting Pakistan's fight against the Taliban.