Topic: George W. Bush

A decade on, U.S. terrorism tribunals are bogged down

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The beige-carpeted room where an al Qaeda chief appeared last week charged with blowing a hole in the side of an American warship looks like any modern U.S. court, with pop-up computer screens at ...

A decade on, terrorism tribunals are bogged down

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The beige-carpeted room where an al Qaeda chief appeared last week charged with blowing a hole in the side of an American warship looks like any modern court, with pop-up computer screens at lawyers' ...

Remembering 9/11

Sobering anniversary brings memories, reminders of what's importantThere is no forgetting the horror that visited the country a decade ago — a coordinated group of terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and turned them into weapons. The images of the twin towers of ...

Bush tells Obama on bin Laden: "Good call"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President George W. Bush, who spent years searching for Osama bin Laden, had two words for President Barack Obama when Obama told him of the al Qaeda leader's death: "Good call."Bush, who has shied away from the public ...

The Impact of Bin Laden's Death

Obama’s political stock will rise, but for how long?Obama’s political stock will rise, but for how long?The death of Osama bin Laden won’t cripple al Qaeda and probably won’t make the United States or the world any safer from terrorists.But it will ...
As President Barack Obama reaped credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden, Republicans insisted Tuesday that their policies had laid the groundwork for the Al-Qaeda leader's demise in Pakistan.Republicans said harsh but much-criticized interrogation policies used on detainees during then-president George ...

Condoleezza Rice praises Bin Laden take down

Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday lavished praise on President Barack Obama for the US military raid that tracked down and killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan."This clearly shows that the president and his team did a ...

Factbox: Three U.S. presidents hunted bin Laden

(Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot and killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan on Monday.Former U.S. President George W. Bush, who was in office at the time of the September 11 attacks and famously said he wanted bin ...

U.S. charges Saudi national for trying to build bomb

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities have arrested a 20-year-old Saudi national on charges he tried to use a weapon of mass destruction and potentially targeted former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department said on Thursday.Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, who was admitted into the ...
American al-Qaida's life term for Bush plot appealed in Va. court; claims harsher than othersA U.S. man who became an al-Qaida terrorist and plotted to assassinate then-President George W. Bush has asked a federal appeals court in Virginia to throw out his ...
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