Peshawar, Sept 10 : After miserably failing to catch international fugitive and Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden for nearly seven years, after 9/11 2001, both American and Pakistani officials have reportedly started reviewing their policy and are now shifting their tactics to intensify the use of the unmanned but lethal Predator drone spy planes in the mountains of western Pakistan.

Washington - The United States is intensifying its use of unmanned Predator drones in the hunt for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the mountains of western Pakistan, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing US and Pakistani officials.

The strategic shift reflected the US failure to develop meaningful human intelligence in the remote region despite placing a 25-million-dollar reward for information that leads to the death or capture of the terrorist network's leader, the newspaper reported.

London, Sep 6: A British Muslim lawyer, who was suspended from work by the Crown Prosecution Service after joking she was treated like a friend of Osama bin Laden, has been awarded a record 600,000 pound payout for racial discrimination.

An employment tribunal found that there was “not a shred of evidence” to support the treatment of Halima Aziz by the CPS and ordered it to reinstate her and issue a full and unequivocal apology, The Telegraph reported.

Washington, Sept 5: Republican presidential candidate John McCain has said that as a former Navy fighter pilot and a prisoner of war in Vietnam, he had enough experience and knowhow to catch Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, as opposed to his rival Democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama.

He said this while responding to Obama’s last week accusation that McCain’s focus on the Iraq war, rather than pursuing Al Qaeda, had allowed bin Laden to escape in Afghanistan.

Washington, Aug. 8 : Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden''s former driver, who was jailed for five and a half years yesterday for supporting terrorism, could be freed in five months, reports The Scotsman.

Salim Hamdan was sentenced after he was found guilty of supporting terrorism following a ten-day trial at the US navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Because he has already served more than five years, Hamdan could be eligible for release in five months.

London, July 23 : A woman has launched a global hunt to track down 500 Osamas, and has already turned up with 44.

Doctor Farrah Jarral is travelling the world searching for men who share their first name with terror chief Osama Bin Laden, but do not have his devilish designs.

She’s asking each of them to write down something they love on a piece of cardboard.

According to The Sun, pictures of her Osamas are being posted on the web and her search is being filmed for a Channel 4 documentary.