“Timeline: Messages from bin Laden”
Aljazeera.net posted a timeline of messages broadcast by bin Laden and his followers to the world since 2001.
Tag: war
“Endless war, a recipe for four-star arrogance”
Read “Endless war, a recipe for four-star arrogance,” a June 27, 2010, op-ed in The Washington Post by Andrew J. Bacevich. Bacevich is a Vietnam veteran, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, and a Catholic who often writes on issues of war and peace from a faith perspective. He is the author of the 2010 […]
“Media Guide–Afghanistan”
See a Council on Foreign Relations’ media guide to the conflict in Afghanistan, featuring a list of experts and other resources.
“Bin Laden, who denied burial to many, buried with respect to Islam”
President Obama stressed that bin Laden was “not a Muslim leader,” as USA Today‘s Faith & Reason blog notes in an article about bin Laden’s death and burial.
“Full Remarks: President Obama on the Death of Osama Bin Ladin”
Read the text of Obama’s initial remarks after the raid on Osama bin Ladin Pakistani compound, posted at Time.com.
“Osama bin Laden, the face of terror, killed in Pakistan”
Read CNN’s article and obituary on Osama bin Laden.
“Osama bin Laden killed: Leader of terrorist group al-Qaeda was 54”
Read The Washington Post’s obituary on Osama bin Laden.
“Osama bin Laden buried at sea after being killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan”
Read The Washington Post’s news story on bin Laden’s death.
Keith David Watenpaugh
Keith David Watenpaugh is a contemporary Middle Eastern historian and Islamic studies specialist at the University of California, Davis, who can discuss human rights in the Middle East, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Christian-Muslim relations. Watenpaugh is the author of Being Modern in the Middle East and editor of The Arab Intellectual and the Question of Modernity (2009).