Last month, the State Department announced it would pay up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of Omar Shafik Hammami, an American-born jihadist, amateur rapper and the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist accused of providing “material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization known as al-Shabab.” On Thursday, Wired published an interview it conducted with Hammami—or at least someone it […]
First Public Accounts of the Bin Laden Raid Posted via Twitter
Sohaib Athar, a 33-year old IT consultant in Abbottabad, unknowingly witnessed the United States’ seizure of Osama Bin Laden on Sunday. At around midnight in Pakistan, as the operation was taking place, Sohaib tweeted about how strange it was that a helicopter was hovering Abbottabad at that time of the night. The noise and rumbling […]
