What to know about September 11, 2001
The September 11 attacks in 2001 changed not just America, but the world at large. “Never forget” quickly became something American’s said to each other, everywhere. American flags appeared in…
The CIA created demonic Bin Laden action figures in Operation ‘Devil Eyes’
Directly from the file of “so crazy it has to be true” comes a left-field plot from the CIA itself: they partnered with an American toymaker — not to create…
What happened aboard the Carl Vinson during Bin Laden’s burial at sea
The dreaded announcement came through the 1MC: River City. If being deployed in the middle of the ocean isn’t bad enough, try being deployed in the middle of the ocean with no comms.
The unfamiliar sound of a V-22 Osprey overpowered the soun…
The Untold Story of the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden
It has been 10 years since May 2, 2011, the night a top-secret SEAL raid took out notorious terrorist and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden at his hideout in Abbottabad,…
Today in military history: Osama bin Laden is killed
On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden, mastermind of 9/11 attacks, was killed by SEAL Team Six. After nearly a decade of hunting the world’s most wanted man, the CIA…
The 6 wildest conspiracy theories about Osama Bin Laden’s death
In a daring, well-documented nighttime raid, 23 Navy SEALs landed in an al-Qaida compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. They were there to kill or capture the world’s most wanted man. The entire operation lasted only 40 minutes and ended with the death …
Meet the pilots who fly SEALs and Delta Force to their most dangerous operations
The Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Airborne, (SOAR-A), has earned the nickname “The Night Stalkers.”
Operating under the cover of night or the shadows of dawn, these elite pilots are responsible for getting special opera…
Why this schoolteacher grew a beard for a decade
On May 2, 2011, a Seattle-based school teacher shaved his face for the first time in a decade. It was one of those beard-growing events you hear about athletes doing or when people grow facial hair for a good cause. But the only thing special about …
A US civilian tried to get revenge in Afghanistan with a sword
Gary Brooks Faulkner, a construction worker from Colorado, was detained by police with a pistol and a sword. Except for the sword, this would not be unusual in Colorado. But he wasn’t in Colorado. He was in Pakistan, and he was there to avenge the …
Bin Laden’s mother says the terror leader was ‘brainwashed’
The mother of the late Al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, has said in her first interview with Western media that her infamous son was “brainwashed” into a life of extremism.
Alia Ghanem said in the interview published by The Guardian newspap…