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Osama bin Laden is seen at a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

One in five of Gen Z has a positive view of Osama bin Laden

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

In this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004, Ayman al-Zawahri poses for a photograph in Khost, Afghanistan. Al-Zawahri, the top al-Qaida leader, was killed by the U.S. over the weekend in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak about the operation on Monday night, Aug. 1, 2022, from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

Al-Zawahri’s path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida

By Lee Keath - Associated Press

Robert O'Neill, the retired Navy SEAL who claims to have fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden, poses for a portrait in Washington on Nov. 14, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Robert O’Neill, Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden: ‘Military parade is third-world bulls—t’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 18, 2015 file photo, Pakistani villagers and family members mourn during the funeral of Pakistani lawyer Samiullah Khan Afridi, who was killed months after he announced that he will no longer be representing Dr. Shakil Afridi, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Shakil Afridi, who reportedly used a vaccination scam to identify Osama bin Laden’s home, has been languishing in jail since the al-Qaida leader was killed by U.S. Navy Seals in 2011 -- his case a metaphor for downward spiraling relations between his country and the U.S. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad, File)

Doctor who aided hunt for bin Laden languishes, forgotten

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004, Osama bin Laden is seen at a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

CIA releases files from Osama bin Laden raid

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

FILE - This photo posted online Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, by supporters of the Islamic State group on an anonymous photo sharing website, purports to show an IS fighter firing a weapon during clashes with Syrian government troops in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour. While the U.S.-led coalition and Russian-backed Syrian troops have been focused on driving Islamic State from the country’s east, an al-Qaida-linked insurgent coalition known as the Levant Liberation Committee has consolidated its control over Idlib, and may be looking to return to Osama bin Laden’s strategy of attacking the West. (Militant Photo via AP, File)

Al-Qaida set to gain as Islamic State disintegrates

By BASSEM MROUE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Staff Sgt. Ricardo Branch was punished for emailing his superiors about a possible leak.

Army to kick out sergeant who tried to keep secret info Barack Obama had revealed

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Pakistani Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said his country will have plenty of economic opportunity in coming years that could be at risk from violence in neighboring Afghanistan. (Associated Press/File)

Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s ambassador, awaits Trump’s Afghanistan policy

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden’

By Paul Davis

Smoke billows from the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York after airplanes crashed into both towers, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Gene Boyars) ** FILE **

Iowa State University professor assigns historical account of 9/11 from al Qaeda’s perspective

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Staff Sgt. Ricardo Branch was punished for emailing his superiors about a possible leak.

Ricardo Branch, Army sergeant, faces discharge for email to brass about classified data

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This undated file photo shows al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. (AP Photo, File)

Last of Osama bin Laden’s documents released by Obama White House

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 20, 2015 file photo, translated copy of an application to join Osama bin Laden's terrorist network are seen in Washington. The Obama administration is releasing the last of three installments of documents belonging to Osama bin Laden that were found in the terrorist’s secret compound in 2011. (AP Photo, File)

Osama bin Laden worried that Iran put tracking chip in sons

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

In this image made from video broadcast by the Qatari-based satellite television station Al-Jazeera Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001, a young boy, left, identified as Hamza bin Laden holds what the Taliban says is a piece of U.S. helicopter wreckage in Ghazni, Afghanistan on Monday, Nov. 5, 2001. The Obama administration has announced terrorism-related sanctions against a son of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. The State Department says Hamza bin Laden has been “determined to have committed, or pose a serious risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security.” (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera via APTN) ** TV OUT **

US imposes terrorism-related sanctions against bin Laden son

By VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press

Osama bin Laden is seen at a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan, in this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File) ** FILE **

Hamza bin Laden, son of infamous al Qaeda leader Osama, added to U.S. terror blacklist

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Fifteenth Anniversary Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ISIS, a new and deadlier enemy

By Sebastian Gorka and Katharine Gorka

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is seen here in a still image from a web posting by the terrorist group's media arm, as-Sahab, on July 27, 2011. (Associated Press)

Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda leader: 9/11 attack ‘blessed’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This undated file photo shows then-al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. (AP Photo, File)

Bin Laden-themed bar beckons athletes, coaches in Rio’s Olympic Village

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this undated file photo, Osama bin Laden is seen in Afghanistan. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

CIA criticized for recounting bin Laden raid in agency’s Twitter account

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. Please note: a classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Obama reflects on raid that killed Osama bin Laden five years ago

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times