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Osama bin Laden was plotting to kill US President Barack Obama as part of a plan to disrupt the 2012 American presidential elections, according to some intelligence data found in the former al-Qaeda chief’s Pakistani compound.

U.S. officials have spoken to Osama bin Laden’s widows in Pakistan, the White House has confirmed.

U.S. drone missiles fired upon Pakistan’s lawless tribal region of North Waziristan have reportedly killed at least seven militants, local officials told Agence France Presse (AFP).

Police in Ireland has arrested a converted Muslim man in Dublin on suspicions that he has threatened to kill Barack Obama when the U.S. presidents visits the Republic later this month.

Pakistan’s top intelligence official has admitted his organization’s failure with respect to the presence of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the country, according to Geo News of Pakistan.

Less than a month after the killing of Al-Qaeda Chief Osama Bin Laden, the jihadist movement in Somalia threatened the life of Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of US President Obama.

Less than a fortnight after bin Laden's death, there was indeed a revenge attack on a para-military academy near Peshawar in Pakistan where more than 83 people, majority of them newly trained cadets, were killed.

Pakistani Taliban on Friday carried out its first major strike to avenge the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. security forces in Pakistan earlier this month.

“You've got to focus on the US and the West,” Osama wrote in the journal seized during the U.S. raid at Abbottabad mansion. It reveals that the slain Al-Qaeda leader was preoccupied with attacking the United States over all other targets.

Two suicide bombings on Friday morning killed at least 70 people outside a paramilitary force academy in Shabqadar, Charsadda district in northwest Pakistan, police said.

Jokes on dreaded (and deceased) terrorist Osama bin Laden have flooded the Internet ever since U.S. President Barack Obama announced that U.S. special ops forces stormed his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed him. Of the several hundreds of jokes on the Al Qaeda leader, these 20 jokes take the cake.

The Secretary General of Iran’s Supreme Council for Human Rights, Mohammad Javad Larijani, said the Al-Qaeda chieftain deserved to have a fair trial rather than face a “unilateral execution” by American commandos.

Sen. John McCain, R-AZ on Wednesday called water boarding torture and said the information that lead to Osama bin Laden did not come from detainees subjected to the interrogation technique.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the US Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan will receive an upgrade in security over concerns that the commandos and their families may be subject to threats by terrorists.

Al Shabaab, a Somali-based al-Qaeda organization has threatened to kill Obama’s 88-year-old Kenyan grandmother, Sarah Onyango Obama.

On his first visit to Afghanistan since the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, India’s Prime Minister vowed his steadfast support for the fledgling new government in Kabul.

Osama bin Laden's journal found by U.S. sources who raided his northern Pakistan mansion last week reveals the deceased al-Qaeda leader urged followers make a single attack that would kill thousands of Americans, look beyond New York to other U.S. cities, and strike on significant days, according to a report.

Amidst growing questions over the legality of the killing of Osama bin Laden, US Attorney General Eric Holder defended the commando raid that resulted in the death of the former al-Qaeda terror chief.

Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasoul, in his first visit to China since he took office in January, said in Beijing on Wednesday that the elimination of Osama bin Laden was ‘positive’ and will make Afghanistan's transition process easier.

The U.S. said on Thursday the killing of Osama Bin Laden was not an assassination and that the U.S. Navy SEALs who stormed his hideout and killed him were on a 'kill or capture' mission.

The head of al-Qaida's Yemen-based wing has vowed to fight on after the killing of Osama bin Laden, saying: What is coming is greater and worse in a statement posted on the internet on Wednesday.