Osama Bin Laden
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
Umpire banned for wearing bin Laden costume; AFL probes crowd abuse
Umpire Leigh Haussen wore the costume at a function the day after the AFL grand final; as the league investigates crowd abuse of an AFLW player.
- by Marc McGowan and Hannah Kennelly
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Opinion
Dictators
Losing sleep over Trump? It’s time to wake up to the real tyrants
Donald Trump is dangerous because he takes too much of our attention. So much so, people become blind to much larger threats.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Middle East tensions
People may rant in our liberal democracy, even when they’re wrong
Amid so much noise on social media, we must not import the systems that many new Australians were fleeing.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Exclusive
Terror charges
Hambali lawyer seeks AFP reports ahead of Bali bombings trial
Indonesian-born Hambali has been held by the United States, at CIA black sites and then its military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, for almost 20 years.
- by Chris Barrett
The CIA has built a museum but don’t expect them to let you in
The museum features gadgets such as a polygraph machine in a briefcase, a communication device disguised as a tobacco pipe, and pigeon-carried cameras
- by Gillian Brockell
Prince Charles ‘accepted millions’ from family of Osama bin Laden
The Prince of Wales’ Charitable Fund received the donation in 2013 from the half brothers of Osama bin Laden, founder of al-Qaeda and architect of 9/11.
- by Stephen Castle
Analysis
Australian cricket
My brush with Bin Laden, and why Pakistan doesn’t deserve the Khyber Pass
The Pakistani people have sorely missed the sight of their heroes on the local turf, and Pat Cummins has an opportunity to prove his captaincy is not limited to home pitches and friendly environments.
- by Geoff Lawson
Analysis
The Morning Edition podcast
Twenty years on from the terrorist attack that changed the world
Today on Please Explain, North America correspondent Matthew Knott joins Nathanael Cooper to look at what has occurred in the past two decades since the September 11 attacks.
- by Nathanael Cooper
What happened to America?
When the planes hit the towers they sliced through more than steel. The September 11 attacks shattered the myth of American innocence and invulnerability.
- by Matthew Knott
The Taliban has retaken Afghanistan. Here’s what it wants
After two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, the Taliban has seized power again for the first time since 2001. But what does the fundamentalist force want?
- by Derek Hawkins
Opinion
Fall of Kabul
Mission demolished: Afghanistan’s ‘Hollywood democracy’ crumbles
There are seven conclusions we can draw from the disastrous, costly and misguided allied occupation of Afghanistan. All of them point to significant security and geopolitical problems ahead as the emboldened Taliban regain control.
- by Peter Hartcher
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