Seventeen local health workers have been fired for their part in a scheme that the CIA orchestrated in an effort to confirm that al Qaida founder Osama bin Laden was hiding in a walled compound in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, a health official in that town said Wednesday. » read more

A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track Osama bin Laden before U.S. special forces killed the terrorist leader should be charged with treason, the official Pakistani inquiry into bin Laden's presence in the country recommended Thursday. » read more

In May, after the world learned that U.S. military Special Forces had found and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, workers at Bluegrass Station in Lexington celebrated. But now, three months later, hundreds of workers at Bluegrass Station, where Lockheed is doing work that is part of a 10-year, $5 billion contract awarded last year to modify a variety of equipment for Special Forces, have learned they might be let go at the end of September. » read more

The organizers of Raleigh, North Carolina's annual spy conference have scored an espionage coup: The keynote speaker will be Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the only person who has headed both the National Security Agency (1999 to 2005) and the Central Intelligence Agency (2006 to 2009). And his topic will be one of the hottest and most current in the world of spying: the operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. » read more

A Tacoma native who led U.S. Special Forces as they drew in to kill Osama bin Laden signaled the end of his 38-year military career this week, giving up his command on a day when Americans continued to mourn the loss of 22 Navy SEALs in a Taliban attack. » read more

The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders on Thursday strongly condemned the CIA's secret use of a vaccination program as cover for spying on Osama bin Laden's house in Pakistan, saying the ploy would damage public health efforts in poor countries. » read more