Osama bin Laden

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Osama Bin Laden Had 'Extensive' Porn Collection: L.A.'s Adult Video Industry Was Aiding a Terrorist?

Vice BooksSasha Grey: All-American.​Ah yes. Like the conservative, Christian Republican who turns out to have an oversize appetite for gay sex, you knew we'd find the other side of Osama Bin Laden. Yeah, the who thought we were the devil because of our decadent, Hollywood-loving, consumerist ... More >>

Bin Laden Name-Checks L.A. as Terror Target: LAX Gets New Bomb-Sniffing Dog Team

LAX.​Who let the dogs out? The LAPD and LAX police did -- in order to detect possible terrorists with bombs moving through the airport. The announcement of the new, specialized canines -- the first team of dogs in the nation to focus on possible bomb-carriers walking through an airport -- cam ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Photos Might Be Released After All -- If U.S. News Media Has Its Way

This guy. But the dead version.​You might get to see those grisly photos of Osama Bin Laden's dead mug after all. Associated Press has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to see photographs and video taken by U.S. personnel during the May Day raid on Bin Laden's Pakistani compound. Th ... More >>

Osama's Marijuana Garden Found at Pakistani Compound? Bin Laden Been Blazin'?

Osama Bin Blazin.'​This could maybe explain Osama Bin Laden's pipe dreams of taking down the might United States: Turns out there was a marijuana garden growing next to his compound in Pakistan. CNN's Nic Robertson (via Huffington Post) came across it while touring the residential grounds wi ... More >>

Los Angeles Ex-Soldier Mike Bruggink Split From U.S. Army, Posed as Boar Hunter to Stalk Osama Bin Laden (and $25 Million) With AK-47

Mike BrugginkBruggink left no Afghani cave unturned.​Patriotic nutjob Gary Faulker wasn't the only Angeleno to strike out alone on a mission to find Osama bin Laden before last weekend's big Navy SEAL takedown. Marina del Rey resident Mike Bruggink was hot on his trail -- the $25 million prize ... More >>

UCLA Undergrads Were 80 Percent Sure Where Osama Bin Laden Was Hiding in 2009

MIT International ReviewBoink! Bin Laden.​Updated after the jump: Professor Gillespie tells us more about his prediction system, which can be used on everyone from a Mexican drug lord to the rare Yangtze River dolphin. Sweet. No joke: A class of undergraduate students at UCLA predicted way ba ... More >>

Bin Laden Assassinated, Claims L.A. Radio Commentator Michael Josephson

Michael Josephson.​The media has tiptoed around the issue because, frankly, no one seems to care of Osama Bin Laden was willfully gunned down instead of being given the chance to seek justice. But at least one commentator, KNX 1070 Newsradio ethics guru Michael Josepson -- you know, the guy w ... More >>

Bin Laden Had Los Angeles On His Short List of U.S. Cities to Attack, Report Claims

LAX has been targeted before.​Los Angeles was on a short list of cities targeted for terrorist attacks, according to data mined by troops that raided Osama Bin Laden's Pakistani compound this week. CBS News states that L.A. was listed in the intel along with New York, Chicago and Washington, ... More >>

Beg Bug Lawsuit Targeting $62-a-Night Glendale Motel Settled (Good Deal)

Welcome to the other side of the mattress.​Wow, what a deal. Go to a roach motel, complain about the bedbugs you know would be there, and get paid. Well, to be fair, the Rodeway Inn-Regalodge Motel isn't exactly a place that charges by the hour. But still, it's a $62-a-night spot in a count ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden: Los Angeles Police Vigilant Despite Death of World's Most Reviled Terrorist

Gone.​Updated after the jump with a pat on the back from the LAFD. The LAPD is keeping its guard up despite President Obama's world-shaking announcement that terrorist Osama Bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan. Assistant Commanding Officer Blake Chow, the department's counterterrorism comm ... More >>

Lara Logan Reveals Rape Details, Moves On to Report Osama Bin Laden's Death in Same Night

CBS NewsLara Logan, back in action​"I don't want this to define me," CBS News correspondent Lara Logan told the New York Times on Thursday, previewing a solemn Sunday-night interview on "60 Minutes" in which she meticulously recounted her own February 11 gang rape in Egypt. A couple hours la ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Downfall Has Deep Southern California Connections: SEALS Train Here

U.S. NavySEALS in their natural environment.​The demise of Osama Bin Laden had strong Southern California connections, including his take down by Navy SEALS, who receive their basic training in Southern California. Bin Laden was reportedly shot in the head as his forces resisted a charge by a ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Demise Gets Taiwanese Animation Treatment, Complete With Gang Rape by Pigs [NSFW Video]

NMA TV / YouTubeHow it really happened.​Our friends at Next Media Animation, the Tawainese cartoon-video producers known for their famous takes on Tiger Woods' late-night fender bender and Chris Brown's Good Morning America freak-out, work fast. Very fast. Yeah, they already have a fantastic ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Death Could Inspire New Terrorism in America, Says Author Chris Hedges in L.A.

FBIWill Obama's demise lead to more terrorism on U.S. soil?​While most Americans today are walking on cloud 9, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, ex- New York Times reporter who has covered the Middle East for seven years says we should be afraid. Very afraid. Chris Hedges told a group gathered in L.A ... More >>

Women Surprised to Find Bed Bugs at $62 Glendale Motel, Sue

At $62 motels, they call this 'concierge.'​A trio of women who stayed at a Glendale motel are suing for medical bills and mental anguish after claiming they were attacked by blood-engorged bed bugs. Here's the thing, ladies: When you stay at a place called the Rodeway Inn-Regalodge Motel (ave ... More >>

Terrorists Discover AutoTune, Make Kanye-Style Jams Praising Bin Laden

Gawker has been trolling the terrorist bulletin boards and websites and they've turned up comedy musical gold. Apparently international terrorism brand Al-Qaeda has been successful in expanding their fanbase to flawless English-speaking youngsters with a love of hip-hop and AutoTune. Gawker reposte ... More >>

Neil Hanburger? I hate that guy!

Spurlock's Search: Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?

The Super Size Me guy goes gunning for Public Enemy No. 1

Fuck Bill Clinton and his critics and his supporters

I don't know about you but I've been so nauseated all this last week listening, first, to Bill Clinton talk about how, when he was President, he tried to kill Osama Bin Laden and how he came the closest of anybody to killing him and how badly he wanted to kill him, kill kill kill!, which brought up ... More >>

The Wild Goat Farmer

Should anyone take Adam Gadahn’s terrorist threat seriously?

What the Knitter Said

The Napoleon of Terror

The Ticking Stopwatch

LAPD's new terrorism czar ponders al Qaeda

Prophet, Speak

Divine intervention on the streets of Karachi

To Protect and to Spin

The ex–LAPD cop who became a 9/11 conspiracy king

The Terror Watch

A chronology of events leading up to 9/11

Barnstorming

Michael Moore touches down

The Reading List

Who’s Bin Smokin’ What?

Their blowback . . . and ours

Osama in Pakistan

What an all-out search could mean for my country

A Small Universe of People

The Back Story

A week 9 reading list

Home Grown?

If anthrax is domestic, likely suspects abound

That Twilight Season

Pushing the Envelopes

Enduring Insults

the painful examination of foreign-policy mistakes

Unsteady War-Footing

Reexamining the U.S. failure to prepare for the battle against terror

Paranoia Runs Deep

Sesame Osama

Uneasy Justice

Why a trial makes more sense than war

Feel the Draft

We need a universal military call-up to start the real debate on this war

Bin Laden’s Basement Tape

War and Power

Is Osama bin Laden a terrorist or soldier, and does it matter?

Media Fundamentalism

Overnight Sage

Last week, Mir Tamim Ansary sent out an e-mail. Now he’s a sought-after expert

What Kind of War?

It’s the Oil

For all of punditry’s hot air, the root cause remains the same

War Without Borders