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Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
President Barack Obama did not notify Congress before the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and the administration framed the strike as lawful under the 2001 AUMF and principles of self‑defen...
Counting discrete “US military operations” that Barack Obama initiated or authorized between 2009 and 2017 is not straightforward: public reporting and scholarship identify direct U.S. lethal force in...
The January 2026 operation that U.S. officials say captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro shares tactical echoes with the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden — both relied on elite special‑ope...
Major mainstream and investigative sources repeatedly report that the 9/11 attacks were planned and executed by al‑Qaeda operatives and that prominent “inside job” claims rely on circumstantial anomal...
President Barack Obama authorized and ordered the U.S. operation—Operation Neptune Spear—that sent Navy SEALs into Abbottabad, Pakistan, and that operation killed Osama bin Laden on May 1–2, 2011 . Wh...
Legal authorities the Obama administration cited to authorize airstrikes without a new congressional declaration were principally the President’s Article II commander-in-chief powers and existing Auth...
The three documents provided for analysis contain about the Osama bin Laden raid or any congressional notification tied to it, so they cannot establish a timeline or corroborate claims about those eve...
Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy combined notable diplomatic —most prominently the Iran nuclear agreement and reopening relations with Cuba—with significant over crisis management in Syria and the...
The immediate post‑9/11 video widely circulated on October 7, 2001 in which Osama bin Laden praises the attacks but does not explicitly say the words “I did it” was released under bin Laden’s name and...
President Obama did not seek prior, full congressional approval for the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, but key congressional intelligence leaders were briefed about the intelligence and the po...
U.S. intelligence collected multiple warnings throughout 2000–2001 indicating al‑Qaeda intended to strike the United States, including a Presidential Daily Brief on August 6, 2001 titled “Bin Ladin De...
The Obama administration carried out at the White House compared with earlier structural overhauls; the most frequently cited change was the 2009 conversion of the North Lawn tennis court into a multi...
A recurrent theme in modern politics is the rhetorical casting of opponents as the Antichrist — a label applied across the ideological spectrum to figures from presidents to foreign leaders — yet hist...
The two episodes are legally and politically distinct: the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden was framed by the Obama administration as a narrowly tailored counterterrorism operation undertaken und...
Osama bin Laden was killed during a U.S. special operations raid—Operation Neptune Spear—carried out by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs from SEAL Team Six (DEVGRU) on the night of 1–2 May 2011 in Abbottabad...
Barack Obama’s two-term presidency is widely viewed by nonpartisan scholars as a study in policy craftsmanship paired with political fragility: major legislative and diplomatic achievements are credit...
President Barack Obama authorized the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden and had, shortly after taking office, made bin Laden’s “killing or capture” a top CIA priority—language indicating the a...
The 9/11 Commission concluded that the U.S. government did not cause the attacks but was plagued by systematic failures—failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management—that left it unabl...
On September 11, 2001, 19 al‑Qaeda militants hijacked four U.S. airliners, flying two into the World Trade Center towers in New York, one into the Pentagon, and one that crashed in Pennsylvania after ...
President Obama personally authorized Operation Neptune Spear, the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, but he did not obtain a separate, specific prior roll‑call authorization from Congress for...