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Ep. 582 - Leon Panetta. When Leon Panetta was growing up in Monterey, California, his Italian immigrant parents often invited soldiers training at nearby Fort Ord to holiday dinners before they ...
Dive into the intriguing life of Osama Bin Laden, from his privileged upbringing in Saudi Arabia to his pivotal role in shaping global terrorism. This video explores the historical context ...
Several hundred Arab and Afghan fighters sent by bin Laden assisted the Taliban in the Mazar-e-Sharif slaughter in 1998. From 1996 to 2001, the organisation of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri had become a virtual state within the Taliban state.
At least by one group of analysts who begin to pay attention to something new: a group called Al-Qaeda and its charismatic leader - Osama bin Laden. Liza Mundy: There’s a group of women analysts, who, you know, in some ways started out at the Agency in kind of low level positions where they were very well trained to do analytic work.
The CIA ran a fake vaccination clinic in an attempt to locate Osama bin Laden. This was revealed after bin Laden's death and may have negatively affected the campaign against Polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The leader of the United Arab Emirates has met with an official in the Taliban government still wanted by the United States on an up-to $10 million bounty over his involvement in an attack that...
In a speech given on July 29, 2005, Rice asserted that "[s]ecuring America from terrorist attack is more than a matter of law enforcement. We must also confront the ideology of hatred in foreign societies by supporting the universal hope of liberty and the inherent appeal of democracy."
