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Osama's gone: Now the real challenge
Osama’s death raises questions for Pakistan – and for the rest of the world still faced with the threat of fundamentalism fuelled by inequality, poverty and hypocrisy.
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Jon Snow
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Osama bin Laden: the hunt ends ten years on
As Osama bin Laden is killed by US special forces, defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones – who was part of the original team hunting the al-Qaeda leader – assesses the implications.
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LIVE BLOG: Osama bin Laden killed in Pakistan
Osama bin Laden has been killed by US troops in Pakistan, ending a decade-long hunt for the man accused of orchestrating 9/11. Add your voice to the Channel 4 News live blog.
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Osama bin Laden killed by US forces in Pakistan
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is killed following a firefight with US troops in Pakistan. But International Editor Lindsey Hilsum questions how significant his death will be for the war on terror.
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The man who tweeted Osama bin Laden raid – without knowing
The man who live-tweeted the US raid on Osama bin Laden – without realising – becomes a Twitter sensation. He moved to Abbottabad in Pakistan for a quiet life, but took with him the social media age.
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‘They have to admit they bombed the hospital’, says Hamas spokesman
Earlier we spoke to Osama Hamdan, he is a spokesman based in Beirut for Hamas. We asked him for his reaction to the Israeli assertion that Hamas, not Israel, is to blame for the strike on the hospital.
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‘Palestinians were being killed for 70 years by the Israelis,’ says Hamas spokesman
We spoke to Osama Hamdan, he is a spokesman based in Beirut for Hamas, which is a designated terrorist organisation according to the UK government.
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Bin Laden ally and al-Qaeda terrorist leader killed by US drone strike
He was Osama Bin Laden’s right hand man and following his death became the leader of al-Qaeda. Last night President Biden announced that Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed by a US drone strike in the heart of downtown Kabul. The FBI’s most wanted terrorist he played a pivotal role in the planning of the September…
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Taliban is ‘not the same Taliban as the past’, says author Abdullah Anas
We spoke to Abdullah Anas. He’s a former mujahideen, who fought alongside Osama bin Laden against the Russians, but split with him when bin Laden formed Al-Qaeda.
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Is Iran really ‘the world’s leading state sponsor of terror’?
President Trump has claimed that Iran is the world’s “leading state sponsor of terror”. But is that fair? Before he became president, Trump said the “world’s biggest funder of terrorism” was Saudi Arabia – not Iran. So is his latest claim is just political rhetoric?
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FactCheck Q&A: Is Saudi Arabia funding ISIS?
The Wikileaks files suggest there have been western efforts to “bring pressure” on Saudi Arabia to end its support for ISIS.
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FactCheck: has Donald Trump been rewriting history again?
Donald Trump is taking fire from US fact-checkers over dubious claims that he was against the US-led invasion of Iraq from the outset.
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Saudis form Islamic alliance to combat terrorism
Saudi Arabia is leading an alliance of Muslim countries to combat Islamic State and other terrorist organisations.
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FactCheck: Donald Trump’s most outrageous claims
Donald Trump may be the most FactChecked presidential candidate in US history. These are his five biggest howlers.
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ISIS ‘LoneWolfe’ inciting terror found in Ohio
An ISIS supporter encouraging terror online has been arrested; Channel 4 News investigates his path into radicalisation on the blogging site Tumblr.
