Osama bin Laden

The CIA women who spent years searching for Osama bin Laden and aided in his death are the subject of a new HBO documentary entitled "Manhunt." The film tells "the real story" of the 20-year hunt for bin Laden, which includes a team of women who worked to find him, according to director Greg Barker.

"Zero Dark Thirty" focused on the story of "Maya," a CIA operative whose work played a major role in bin Laden's death. While the role of "Maya" was allegedly based on just one woman's work, Barker's documentary notes that there was no one woman responsible for bin Laden's capture. Instead, it was a team of women known as the "Sisterhood."

"Manhunt" includes interviews with several retired CIA agents including Nada Bakos, Cindy Storer, and Barbara Sude. Their search for bin Laden began long before the 9/11 attacks, which put an international spotlight on the leader of al-Qaida. more >>

Kathryn Bigelow, director of the controversial "Zero Dark Thirty," has written a new essay in which she defends her depiction of torture in the movie but also denounces torture in her personal life. "Zero Dark Thirty" tells the story of how American officials tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden, using torture to do so.

"Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement," Bigelow wrote in an op-ed for The Los Angeles Times. "I do wonder if some of the sentiments alternately expressed about the film might be more appropriately directed at those who instituted and ordered these U.S. policies, as opposed to a motion picture that brings the story to the screen."

Senators Dianne Feinstein and John McCain have requested to see the documents shown to Bigelow by the CIA, and lawyers are looking to see whether CIA officials provided false information about the techniques used to interrogate inmates. more >>

Taliban-linked militants have killed 103 people in Pakistan on Thursday in three major bombings, marking one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in recent months.

Officials said that the heaviest attack occurred in the city of Quetta, where 69 people were killed while another 69 were injured at a blast at a billiard hall, The Associated Press reported.

Another bomb blast at a Sunni Islam mosque in the Northern city of Mingora killed 22 people while injuring 70, and yet another blast in a commercial area in Quetta targeting paramilitary soldiers killed 12 people and wounded 40 others. more >>

Prince Harry has been dubbed a "jackal" by an Afghan insurgent warlord on Wednesday.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar continued to describe the British royal as a shameless drunk who was out to kill innocent Afghans during an interview with The Daily Telegraph.

"It seems that some British authorities still dream about the times of the 18th and 19th century and they want their ambassador to be treated like a viceroy and their prince to go out in uniform to hint for human beings and play the Satanic role that they used to play in the past," said the insurgent in translated comments, according to Reuters. more >>

A treasure hunter has put forth the claim that he knows where the body of Osama Bin Laden is and is currently trying to raise funds for the expedition.

Bill Warren, 67, a treasure hunter from California, stated that he still holds his doubts that the United States killed Bin Laden and buried him at sea. The government has not released any photographs as proof, which has only fueled skeptics.

Warren explained that the Bin Laden's body "is two hundred miles west of the Indian city of Surat." Warren stated that he was able to determine the location of the body by using satellite photographs recently released by the Navy. more >>

The Pakistani contractor who bulldozed the three-story Abbottabad hideout of Osama bin Laden is selling the remnants of the al-Qaida terrorist's last home.

"These bricks can be used by people to build new houses," Shakeel Ahmed, a well-known contractor in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad told Reuters.

The former home of the terrorist has become somewhat of a tourist attraction with some visitors looking to take home a souvenirs from the world's most wanted terrorist's last hide out, Ahmed told the news agency. more >>