Just 10 years into a new century, more than two-thirds of the country sees the past decade as a period of decline for the U.S., according to a new TIME/Aspen Ideas Festival poll that probed Americans on the decade since the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001
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Al-Qaeda’s New Boss: The U.S. Hunt for al-Zawahiri Begins
So what took al-Qaeda so long to replace Osama bin Laden?
Why Has Pakistan Targeted Informants Who Helped Track Bin Laden?
In the days following the raid that discovered and killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan’s top spymaster recalled that he had long made his feelings plain to his American allies.
Pakistan: The Killings of a Terrorist and a Journalist
A month after Osama bin Laden’s death, one of the men tipped to succeed him as leader of al-Qaeda is believed to have been eliminated by a CIA-operated drone strike on Friday. U.S
Al-Qaeda’s Line of Succession: the View from Iraq
The death of Osama bin Laden comes at a time when al-Qaeda in Iraq has been shifting strategies in an effort to recoup from years of setbacks.
SEO HED: U.S.-Pakistan Tensions: How the ISI Plays Both Sides
In the days after the U.S. raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad — when the whole world was wondering whether the Pakistanis had known all along that he was there — I found myself reviewing my correspondence with officers of the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate
‘Pakistan Wasn’t bin Laden’s Only Hideout,’ says Prime Minister Gilani
Osama bin Laden may have been found and killed in Pakistan, but that country’s leaders believe it wasn’t the only place where the al-Qaeda leader had traveled after fleeing Afghanistan in late 2001. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in an exclusive interview with TIME on Wednesday — one of the first he has given since the raid on Abbottabad — thinks bin Laden may have visited his ancestral homeland, Yemen, in search of a new bride
The Navy Says ‘I Do’ to Same-Sex Marriages
Last Monday, the Navy was the hero across America, for the exploits of its SEALs in bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. This Monday, the sea service was zero in certain quarters for saying it will permit same-sex marriages within its hallowed chapels
Bin Laden’s Great Mistake: Misjudging the American Spirit
When President Barack Obama announced on May 1 that U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, I was among those who headed to the White House.
A Long Time Going
Osama bin Laden long fancied himself something of a poet. His compositions tended to the morbid, and a poem written two years after 9/11 in which he contemplated the circumstances of his death was no exception.