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The Secret Team That Killed bin Laden — From Ghazi Air Base in Pakistan, the modified MH-60 helicopters made their way to the garrison suburb of Abbottabad, about 30 miles from the center of Islamabad. Aboard were Navy SEALs, flown across the border from Afghanistan, along with tactical signals …
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White House: Osama Bin Laden Used Woman As Human Shield — The President and his national security team spent Sunday afternoon and evening huddling in the West Wing of the White House filled with anxiety while they followed in real time the covert operations of an elite team …
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Officials: CIA interrogators at secret prisons developed first strands that led to bin Laden — WASHINGTON - Officials say CIA interrogators in secret overseas prisons developed the first strands of information that ultimately led to the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden ‘protected’ by Pakistani security — Pakistani security forces allegedly helped Osama bin Laden evade American troops for almost 10 years, according to secret US government files. — American diplomats were told that one of the key reasons why they had failed …

Teacher who vowed not to shave until bin Laden was caught or killed finally shaves — EAST WENATCHEE, Wash. - A teacher who vowed nearly 10 years ago not to cut his beard until Osama bin Laden was captured or proven dead said he cried Sunday night upon hearing of the terrorist's death.
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Killing of bin Laden: What are the consequences? — (updated below) — The killing of Osama bin Laden is one of those events which, especially in the immediate aftermath, is not susceptible to reasoned discussion. It's already a Litmus Test event: all Decent People — by definition …


Meet The Deathers: Andrew Brietbart Website Pushing Conspiracy Theory That Osama Might Not Be Dead — Mere hours after President Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden, supported by incontrovertible DNA evidence, the conspiracy theorists are hard at work.
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Notes on the Death of Osama bin Laden — No doubt there will be time to reflect more deeply about the news announced by President Obama last night. For now, I thought it might be useful to annotate some of the initial headlines. — On where he was found:
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Detective Work on Courier Led to Breakthrough on Bin Laden — WASHINGTON — After years of dead ends and promising leads gone cold, the big break came last August. — A trusted courier of Osama bin Laden's whom American spies had been hunting for years was finally located in a compound 35 miles north …
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He Won — In The Looming Tower, the Pulitzer-winning history of al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11, author Lawrence Wright lays out how Osama bin Laden's motivation for the attacks that he planned in the 1990s, and then the September 11 attacks, was to draw the U.S. and the West into a prolonged war …
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Limbaugh: ‘We Need To Open The Program Today By Congratulating President Obama’ — Amidst all the revelry on Twitter last night, tons of people were voicing their concerns that the death of Osama bin Laden would inevitably be twisted for political gain, that some person would force …
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White House Officials Debate Releasing Photographs of Bin Laden's Corpse — The Obama administration has photographs of Osama bin Laden's dead body and officials are debating what to do with them and whether they should be released to the public, officials tell ABC News.


KEITH URBAHN'S TWEET HEARD AROUND THE WORLD — 'I don't credit myself with the story. I credit Twitter,' Keith Urbahn said. POLITICO Screengrab — Keith Urbahn, chief of staff for former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is being credited with first reporting, via Twitter Sunday night …
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Osama bin Laden raid yields trove of computer data — The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, yielding what a U.S. official called “the mother lode of intelligence.”
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Inside Sources: Bin Laden's Corpse Has Been On Ice For Nearly a Decade — A multitude of different inside sources both publicly and privately, including one individual who personally worked with Bin Laden at one time, told us directly that Osama's dead corpse has been on ice for nearly a decade and that his …
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What Obama does next will help define the legacy of Osama Bin Laden.
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Santorum's Response To Bin Laden's Death Is To Accuse Obama Of Not Defending American Freedom
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Limbaugh commends Obama, sort of
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Rush Limbaugh: ‘Thank God for President Obama’
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Arabs Riot in Jerusalem Over Bin Laden's Demise, Hamas Angry
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JOSHUAPUNDIT and Weasel Zippers

Can We Stop Questioning Obama's Legitimacy Now?
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Right-Wing Media Accuse Obama Of Making Bin Laden Death All About Himself
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Islamic leader condemns bin Laden sea burial
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How the U.S. found and finished Bin Laden
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White House: ‘Inconceivable’ bin Laden had no Pakistani support
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“USA! USA!” is the wrong response
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Dick Cheney Says ‘Obama Deserves Credit’ for Osama Bin Laden's Death
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Sea burial of Osama bin Laden breaks sharia law, say Muslim scholars
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Reaction to Obama's Bin Laden Speech
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Bin Laden's wife used as human shield
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Indian Media Reports on Osama bin Laden's Killing: ‘Osama was Killed in an ISI Safehouse’; …
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Muslim world reaction mixed
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Graham questions decision to dispose of bin Laden's body
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Complications after a night of jubilation
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Joy Behar and Barbara Walters Politicize Bin Laden Death: Just Cancel 2012 Election Now
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Meet The ‘Seal Team 6’, The Bad-Asses Who Killed Osama Bin Laden
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Egypt Muslim Brotherhood condemns Bin Laden death
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Osama bin Laden dead: Yes, SEALs were in on the raid, but aides hail Obama's office bravery
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Rick Santorum: This one event won't change our enemies' feelings
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Limbaugh Claims Obama Took Credit For “Single-Handed[ly] ... Securing The Death Of Osama Bin Laden” …
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Osama bin Laden Largely Discredited Among Muslim Publics in Recent Years
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World | Other World Stories — Compound in Pakistan was once a safe house
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Osama bin Laden's death will haunt Pakistan | Simon Tisdall
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Claim: Krugman is top prognosticator; Cal Thomas is the worst — Romenesko Misc. — A Hamilton College class and their public policy professor analyzed the predicts of 26 pundits — including Sunday morning TV talkers — and used a scale of 1 to 5 to rate their accuracy.

Sen. Ensign apologizes in final floor speech — Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) gave a farewell speech on the Senate floor Monday in which he apologized to his colleagues for having an affair with a campaign aide and warned other senators to guard against the strain of self-importance that led him to stray from his beliefs.
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