WASHINGTON: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had planned to hijack US planes travelling across Southeast Asia and crash them into US military facilities in the region in coordination with 9/11 attacks,according to a secret interrogation report of one of his bodyguards released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks. Osamas bodyguard Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab,a Yemen national,was arrested by Pakistani forces on December 15,2001. Another detainee also said,Osama planned to use Yemenis and Saudis for the Asian plot because they could easily travel to Malaysia,Thailand,Singapore,Hong Kong,the Philippines,and South Korea. Osamas son lived in Karachi safe house KARACHI: The worlds most wanted terrorist Osama bin Ladens son Saed lived in a safe house in Karachi with his wife and child just three months after the 9/11 attacks,according to an interrogation report of a Guantanamo Bay detainee. The report,released by Wikileaks,said Pakistani authorities in 2002 discovered over 20 passports belonging to the wives and children of Osama during a raid at an al-Qaeda safe house. US storm toll at 291,rescue efforts on Alabama: After storms that killed hundreds across the South and spawned tornadoes,people from Texas to Virginia to Georgia searched through rubble for survivors. At least 291 people across six states died in the storms,with more than half - 204 people in Alabama. President Obama toured storm-wracked neighbourhoods of Tuscaloosa. He said he has never seen devastation like this. Obamas dad forced to leave Harvard BOSTON: New documents about US President Barack Obamas father have emerged claiming that Obama senior was forced to leave Harvard university amid concerns about his playboy ways. Obama senior,a PhD candidate at Harvard,was forced to leave since administrators were alarmed at the number of women in his life and his financial difficulties,documents obtained by newspaper The Arizona Independent from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) said. US to slap sanctions against Syria officials WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is hitting three top Syrian officials,Syrias intelligence agency and Irans Revolutionary Guard with sanctions over their brutal crackdown on pro-reform demonstrators. The penalties to be announced late Friday will freeze any assets that the officials,Syrias General Intelligence Directorate and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps may have in US jurisdictions. Meanwhile,Syrian forces shot dead at least 24 civilians in attacks on several pro-democracy demonstrations Friday.
