Blog posts tagged "Osama bin Laden"

May 4, 2011 7:44 am 25 Comments

Is Pakistan's assertion that they had no knowledge of the bin Laden compound simply incompetence or are the already mounting conspiracies more than just theories?

May 2, 2011 11:24 am 35 Comments

Osama's death raises questions for Pakistan - and for the rest of the world still faced with the threat of fundamentalism fuelled by inequality, poverty and hypocrisy.

May 14, 2009 1:23 pm No Comments

Yesterday in Downing Street I asked Gordon Brown whether Saudi Arabia is still funding the Taliban. I was attending a news conference he was hosting with Pakistan’s President Zardari. Mr Brown did not address my specific question. Sidestepping the Saudi aspect, he described the MI6 financial units that are now hard at work tracking Taliban [...]