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Daily Mail
9 hours ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE I shot Osama Bin Laden. I'm ready if Trump asks me to take out the Ayatollah... but there's a more sinister Iran threat that needs dealing with first
If asked to join an operation to kill Iran 's Supreme Leader, former US Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill says he would be ready. The decorated veteran - who shot Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in one of the most famous raids in US military history - exclusively told the Daily Mail that his 'boots still fit' when asked about a potential mission targeting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Scotsman
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Best TV shows 2025 so far: highest rated shows on RT now
The longest day of the year has come and gone and summer is finally upon us. It is hard to believe but we are already halfway through 2025 and Christmas will be here before you know it. As we approach the second part of the year, it might be the perfect time to take stock and reflect on the TV shows that have come and gone already. From streaming smash hits to some underseen gems, there are plenty you could still add to your watchlist. We've pulled together this list based on the overall 'Tomatometre' score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes - as well as my personal recommendations at the end, as a TV reporter and writer. Where possible we will try to include where it is possible to watch the shows as well in the UK. Have you got a story you want to share with our readers? You can now send it to us online via YourWorld at . It's free to use and, once checked, your story will appear on our website and, space allowing, in our newspapers. 1 . Cassandra - 100% Fresh A family moves into the oldest smart home in Germany, in this sci-fi thriller from Netflix. It was released back in February of this year and you might have missed it - but sounds like it is worth adding to your watch list. Cassandra has a 100% fresh rating based on six reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. | Netflix Photo: Netflix Photo Sales 2 . Code of Silence - 100% Fresh One of my personal favourites of the year so far, this ITV drama was thoroughly excellent - and many of our readers have written in demanding a second series. Starring Rose Ayling-Ellis it follows a deaf woman who is drafted in as an interpreter for the police and gets in over her head. It is really thrilling and the boxset is on ITVX now - and it has a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on nine reviews. | Mammoth Screen/ ITV Photo: Mammoth Screen/ ITV Photo Sales 3 . Dark Winds (season 3) - 100% Fresh Dark Winds might not be a crime show you are aware of - but all three of its seasons, including 2025's series three - are rated 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. The first season was even certified fresh. Set in 1971, it follows Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police as he is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. Dark Winds is on U&Alibi and Now TV in the UK. | AMC Photo: AMC Photo Sales 4 . American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden - 100% Fresh Netflix has released a documentary about one of the most notorious manhunts of the 21st century - the search for Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. It features rare footage and interviews and all three episodes are available to stream right now. The documentary series has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on eight reviews. | Netflix Photo: Netflix Photo Sales
Daily Mail
21-06-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Toff terrorist could be let out from prison: Parole board is considering release of ex-public schoolboy who plotted suicide bombing on shopping centre
One of Britain's most dangerous terrorists could soon be back on the streets, MailOnline can reveal. Former public schoolboy Andrew Michael, known as Isa Ibrahim after he converted to Islam, was jailed aged 20 when he was found to be plotting a suicide bomb attack on Bristol's Broadmead shopping centre. However, far from having a tough upbringing, the terrorist who idolised Osama Bin Laden was the toff son of Christian church-going parents and lived in a £1million gated mansion in Bristol. His father Dr Nassif Ibrahim was an Egyptian-born NHS consultant pathologist at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol and his elder brother Peter graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, and became a software engineer. But Ibrahim fell under the spell of Muslim radicals such as the 7/7 bombers, Abu Hamza and Omar Bakri Muhammad after watching recordings of their speeches on the internet and converted to Islam. He was unknown to police, and cops only arrested him in 2008 'a matter of hours or days' before he was about to blow himself up with a suicide vest created using internet instructions after a tip-off from the local Muslim community. On July 16, 2009, he was convicted at Winchester Crown Court of making an explosive with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury and preparation of terrorist acts. He was sentenced to an indeterminate prison sentence with a minimum term of ten years. Only three years ago in 2022, he was denied parole on the basis that he was still a danger to society. The now-36-year-old could soon taste freedom after the Secretary of State for Justice Shabana Mahmood referred Ibrahim's case to the Parole Board, which is considering whether to release him. A spokesperson for the Parole Board said: 'We can confirm the parole review of Isa Ibrahim has been referred to the Parole Board by the Secretary of State for Justice and is following standard processes. 'Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community. 'A panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as explore the harm done and impact the crime has had on the victims. 'Members read and digest hundreds of pages of evidence and reports in the lead up to an oral hearing. 'Evidence from witnesses such as probation officers, psychiatrists and psychologists, officials supervising the offender in prison as well as victim personal statements may be given at the hearing. 'It is standard for the prisoner and witnesses to be questioned at length during the hearing which often lasts a full day or more. Parole reviews are undertaken thoroughly and with extreme care. Protecting the public is our number one priority.' 'A decision on Ibrahim's case is expected over coming weeks.' Brought up in a luxury gated mansion in the leafy Bristol suburb of Frenchay, Ibrahim seemed set for a prosperous life. But his unruly behaviour and developing drug habit began to take their toll. By the time he was arrested, Ibrahim was a regular hard-drug user who was expelled from three different private schools and had first experimented with cannabis when he was just 12 years old. Ibrahim was first expelled from £19,065-a-year Colston's School before being thrown out of the £9,885-a-year Queen Elizabeth Hospital school in Bristol aged 12 for smoking cannabis. He moved to writer Auberon Waugh's former school, the £24,141-a-year strict Roman Catholic Downside School in Bath as a boarder, but was expelled for drinking alcohol in the dorm and going missing. He ended up at the £7,500-a-year Bristol Cathedral School, where he passed nine GCSEs with good grades. While a student at the City of Bristol College, he made explosives and a suicide vest in his flat and carried out extensive surveillance at Broadmead shopping centre in Bristol, where he planned to cause the maximum damage by using nails and ball bearings in his bomb. He bought the main components for the suicide bomb from high street shops, including branches of Boots. A bomb disposal expert stands by an area cordoned off for a controlled explosion outside Ibrahim's home in 2008 Thirty of Ibrahim's neighbours were evacuated and a controlled explosion was carried out following the raid at 2am on April 18, 2008 Ibrahim was only caught after members of the Al-Baseera mosque in Bristol saw injuries he suffered while testing the explosive and, concerned about his extreme views and what he may be planning, told police that a white Muslim convert was acting suspiciously. It is believed to have been the first time that the Muslim community had played a central role in bringing a potential terrorist bomber to justice. When police entered his flat in Comb Paddock, Bristol, police found between 125 and 245g of the unstable explosive Hexamethylene Triperoxide Diamine, also known as HMTD, the same substance used in the July 7, 2005 London bombings. He had stored it in a McVitie's Family Circle biscuit tin in Ibrahim's fridge. There was so much explosive powder in his flat that the kitchen floor crackled under their feet. Ibrahim had also made an electrical circuit capable of detonating the explosive at short range. Police also found a half-made suicide vest and films of Ibrahim testing the explosives on the floor of his flat. Ibrahim made the HMTD and his suicide vest entirely through instructions from the internet. Soldiers from the Royal Logistic Corps also had to carry out controlled explosions at his home. There was also a large amount of radical literature in the flat and when he was arrested the book Milestones by Sayyid Qutb was in his rucksack. The book advocates jihad and radical Islam. Detective Chief Inspector Matt Iddon said: 'It soon became very, very clear that his kitchen had become an explosive laboratory.' DCI Iddon said Ibrahim had planned to set his suicide vest off in a crowded area of the shopping centre. He said: 'He identified that the food court was a dense area. It's full of families – husband, wives, children, groups of young friends – relaxing and enjoying the day. 'He intended to blow himself up there.' He added: 'He was not on any security services radar. He was completely unknown.' When he was arrested, Ibrahim told officers: 'My mum's going to kill me. Am I going to be on the news?' His father Nassif, mother Victoria and brother Peter were in court every day for the trial 16 years ago. At Ibrahim's trial, where he denied the charges, he said he had trouble interacting and making friends, and admitted even as an adult he talked to teddy bears. Even as he was detained in Belmarsh prison, he thought it would 'give him status' to be in the same jail as the likes of hate cleric Abu Hamza. He claimed he had no intent to harm but just wanted to set the vest off and film. Trial judge Judge Mr Justice Butterfield told the terrorist: 'You were, in my judgment, a lonely and angry young person at the time of these events, with a craving for attention. 'You are a dangerous young man, well capable of acting on the views you held in the spring of 2008.' His mother fled the court in tears as the sentence was passed and since he was jailed his family have regularly visited him in prison.
Time of India
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Trump-Munir lunch: Shashi Tharoor reminds US of 'Osama', hopes America reminded Pak not to support terror
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday reminded the US of Pakistan's role in sheltering Osama bin Laden, saying he hoped Washington used the meeting between Donald Trump and Pakistan's Army General Asim Munir to tell Islamabad not to support Congress MP made the remark in response to a question from reporters here about Trump's lunch meeting with General said he hoped that during the interaction, the United States had reminded Pakistan of the importance of not supporting terrorism or providing safe havens to terrorists, and of not enabling, guiding, training, arming, financing, equipping or sending terrorists into said this message was conveyed to the Pakistani delegation by some of the American Senators and Congressmen and hoped that everyone in the US government would do the who recently led a delegation of Indian parliamentarians to the US and a few other countries to talk about India's response to terrorism in the wake of the April 22 attack in Pahalgam, said the US could not have forgotten the episode of Al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden so quickly."Osama Bin Laden killed over 2,000 people in the 9/11 attacks. He destroyed two iconic American buildings. So, in these circumstances, Pakistan's culpability in hiding this man, until he was finally found in a safe house near an army camp in a cantonment city, is something that cannot be easily forgotten by the Americans," the Congress leader being asked by reporters as to why the US President did not meet the Indian delegation, but met the Pakistani General, Tharoor said that the Indian delegates were received by Vice President J D Vance which was a "significant honour".Usually, Parliamentary delegates are met by senior officials, like Deputy Secretaries of State, he also pointed out that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met with Trump much earlier."We gave exactly the same message that the PM gave to the US President and our message was received without any demur, disagreement or argument by the Vice President and the Deputy Secretary of State," he the alleged mediation by the US to end the India-Pakistan conflict, Tharoor said that India never needed any persuading to stop as it had made it clear that if Pakistan stopped, so would it."If there was any pressure from President Trump, it would only have been on Pakistan. When Pakistan offered to stop, we stopped. So, there was no requirement for any mediation or any pressure on us," he also termed as "grave" the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict, saying both the nations were longtime friends of India which would ideally prefer there be peace between the two said that presently the matter was "not in our hands" and all that India can do is observe with "attention and concern" what is going on there."Our concerns remain, of course, for the well being of the people there as well as the safety and security of our own citizens," he Congress MP also said a number of Indian students have been evacuated from Iran to neighbouring countries and that he was sure the Indian government was closely following what was happening in West Asia.
Time of India
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
No one's forgotten Pakistan sheltered Osama: India after US' Pakistan praise
Representative image NEW DELHI: As American authorities laud Pakistan's counterterrorism efforts, India said Thursday that no one has forgotten that Pakistan gave shelter to Osama Bin laden and its role in the Mumbai attacks. Government also reminded the US that the man who helped locate Osama Bin Laden is still in a Pakistan jail. "The record of what Pakistan actually is, is very clear. We all know the Pahalagam attack is only the most recent example of cross-border terrorism. I would remind you that only recently the conspirator of 26/11 Tahawwur Rana was extradited from the US," said MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. Rana had helped key conspirator David Headley plot the Mumbai attacks (26/11) in 2008 and was recently extradited by the US to India. "Obviously, none of us have forgotten that Pakistan gave shelter to Osama Bin Laden. It is significant that the person - Dr Shakil Afridi - who helped locate Osama bin Laden is still imprisoned by the Pakistani military," he added. The official was responding to questions about US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander General Michael Kurilla remark that Pakistan was a "phenomenal partner in the world of counterterrorism". Kurilla also said the United States has to have a relationship with Pakistan and with India, and noted that it cannot be a "binary switch" where Washington cannot have ties with Islamabad if it has relations with New Delhi.
