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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Pakistan’s Prime Minister has delivered a trenchant attack on the US for breaching its sovereignty during the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, and called accusations of Pakistani complicity “absurd”.
US President Barack Obama has said he suspects al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had support within Pakistan, but the nature of that support is not yet known.
Lindsey Hilsum writes from Abbottabad’s “Bin Laden Town” on the impact of the killing of Osama bin Laden on US/Pakistani relations.
Mugs, t-shirts, yoga mats and coffee cups a-plenty on every New York street corner all emblazened with a reinvigorated belief in the once “No-drama Obama” who is fast becoming the heroic image many americans had never believed possible.
Russian security forces have killed al-Qaeda’s envoy to Chechnya four days after Osama bin Laden was shot dead in Pakistan. Channel 4 News understands he had visited Pakistan in the past few months.
Lindsey Hilsum describes the doubts and growing distrust in Pakistan in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death.
As much of America celebrates the death of Osama bin Laden, questions surface over the use of torture in locating his whereabouts, writes Washington correspondent Sarah Smith.
A previously unseen “stealth helicopter” was used in the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, aviation experts tell Channel 4 News.
Despite acknowledging the death of bin Laden as an “important milestone against terrorism”, Pakistan expresses “deep concerns” at the manner of the US operation that killed the al-Qaeda leader.
Photos of Osama bin Laden’s dead body will not be published, says President Obama, as senior Taliban commanders tell Channel 4 News the al-Qaeda leader died of kidney disease months ago.
Bin Laden’s death is a moment of special symbolism for the men of the 6th Communication Battalion Marines, writes Online Editor Ed Fraser. They lost three of their number to the 9/11 attack.
The chain of events leading to the killing of Osama bin Laden is starting to become clear, but the first person to interview him tells Channel 4 News that Abbottabad should have been noticed long ago.
The Americans chose the code name of a Native American warrior chief in the operation to kill Osama bin Laden. But, as Samira Ahmed writes, Geronimo did more than evade capture – he became a hero.
Our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, asks how much difference the death of Osama bin Laden will make to Al-Qaeda.
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.