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Bin Laden raid will help defeat al-Qaida, Obama says
The death of Osama bin Laden and the unprecedented collection of intelligence material from the raid that killed the terrorist leader will help the U.S. deal a serious blow to al-Qaida, President Barack Obama said May 8 in a recent television interview. President Obama discussed the operation that killed bin Laden in Pakistan and the [...]
Technology in US helicopter not so secret: expert
Pakistan or other countries may not have much to learn from the wreckage of a “stealth” US helicopter used in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, a defense analyst said Monday. The helicopter went down in a hard landing during last week’s raid that killed bin Laden, and US Navy commandos destroyed the chopper [...]
India begins wargames along Pakistan border
India kicked off war games involving thousands of troops Monday along its border with arch-rival Pakistan, which is still smarting from the US operation that killed Osama bin Laden. A military spokesman told reporters the six-day exercise, codenamed Vijayee Bhava (Be Victorious) was being held in the Thar desert region in the Indian state of [...]
TCG Multi-Link Ground Support System to Pakistan Air Force
Tactical Communications Group (TCG) has received its fourth consecutive order from the US Air Forces’ Electronic Systems Center (ESC) for a Ground Support System (GSS) for use by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF). TCG’s GSS solution for the (PAF) will provide their pilots a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) capability to support Link 16 simulation training and operations [...]
China urges world to back Pakistan in terror fight
China reaffirmed its support on Thursday for efforts by its ally Pakistan to combat terrorism after the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US forces, and urged the world to help Islamabad. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu stopped short of directly criticising the daring raid by US special forces on Pakistani soil that [...]
Obama refuses to release bin Laden photos
President Barack Obama decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, citing national security risks and saying the United States should not brandish “trophies” of its victory. Obama’s war cabinet had been debating whether to publish gruesome post-mortem photos of the Al-Qaeda terror chief, who was gunned down by US special forces in [...]
US Revises Description of bin Laden Killing
U.S. officials on Tuesday revised their description of the circumstances surrounding the killing of al-Qaida terror leader Osama bin Laden, as more details became available. As The new narrative says bin Laden resisted U.S. forces and was unarmed. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney gave reporters a revised narrative of Sunday’s events, supplied by the [...]
US and Pakistan Issue Joint Statement After DCG Meeting
The 20th meeting of the U.S.-Pakistan Defense Consultative Group (DCG) was held in Washington, DC on 2-3 May 2011. The two nations’ delegations were respectively led by Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Syed Athar Ali, Pakistan’s Secretary of Defense, and Ms. Michèle Flournoy, the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. The DCG is the primary forum [...]
Navy SEALs shine in risky bin Laden strike
US Navy SEALs, legendarily tough, secretive specialists, led the bold commando operation in Pakistan that took down the world’s most wanted man: 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, US officials said. After an embarrassing failure at rescuing hostages from the US embassy in Tehran in 1980, US authorities sought to bring hard-learned lessons into play seven [...]


