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11:05 AM ET, May 3, 2011

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
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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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
White House modifies Osama bin Laden account  —  The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces.
New York Times:
Behind the Hunt for Bin Laden  —  President Obama and members of his national security team receiving an update on Sunday.  A classified document in front of Hillary Rodham Clinton was blurred before this photo was released.  More Photos »  —  WASHINGTON — For years …
CBS News:
Bin Laden skull blown apart, official says  —  Infamous al Qaeda leader shot above left eye in U.S. raid, blowing away part of his skull  —  WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden was shot above his left eye and the bullet blew away part of his skull, a U.S. official says.  He was also shot in the chest.
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Osama bin Laden dead: Yes, SEALs were in on the raid, but aides hail Obama's office bravery  —  According to another one of those White House briefings of reporters designed to suck up all available credit for good news, President Obama's homeland security advisor reveals that it was a really tense …
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Source: White House Discussing Release of OBL Photograph Today  —  A top source tells ABC News that President Obama and White House officials are discussing the possibility of releasing a photograph of Osama bin Laden's corpse today.  —  The photograph, according to sources who have seen it …
Mona Eltahawy / Guardian:
No dignity at Ground Zero  —  As a US Muslim I abhor the frat boy reaction.  We should be celebrating the Arab spring, not this  —  I could hear the cheers as I got out of the taxi, two blocks away.  I could hear them from right in front of Park 51, the site of a planned Islamic community centre …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Corrente
Washington Post:
Obama's victory lap  —  The White House advance team put the presidential podium at an odd angle in the East Room, so that an oil painting showing George Washington would be in the shot behind President Obama.  This made it appear from a certain view that Washington was patting Obama on the back.
Asif Ali Zardari / Washington Post:
Pakistan did its part  —  Pakistan, perhaps the world's greatest victim of terrorism, joins the other targets of al-Qaeda — the people of the United States, Britain, Spain, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Yemen, Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Algeria — in our satisfaction …
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
Everything Is a Reason To Invest More Money In Wasteful Homeland Security Endeavors  —  My hope is that the death of Osama bin Laden will be an opportunity to declare victory in the war on terror and return to trying to keep terrorism risk in perspective.  The tawdry reality …
Yahoo! News Canada:
No proof Pakistanis knew bin Laden location: U.S.  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is no evidence Pakistani officials knew Osama bin Laden was living at a compound deep inside the country, but the United States is not ruling out the possibility, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser said on Tuesday.
Maggie Fox / NationalJournal.com:
Did DNA Finger bin Laden?
David Morgan / Reuters:
U.S. believes it can now destroy al Qaeda
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Meet The Deathers: Andrew Brietbart Website Pushing Conspiracy Theory That Osama Might Not Be Dead
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Source: US Government Believes Pakistan Compound was Built Specifically for Bin Laden
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Dead, But Costly War on Terror Goes On
Discussion: The Politico and Left Coast Rebel
John T. Bennett / The Hill:
Pakistan questioned on hideout
Emptywheel:
The Osama bin Laden Trail Shows Waterboarding Didn't Work
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Breitbart On How the Left is Politicizing the Bin Laden Story
Paul Joseph Watson / Alex Jones' Infowars:
Inside Sources: Bin Laden's Corpse Has Been On Ice For Nearly a Decade
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Dick Cheney Says ‘Obama Deserves Credit’ for Osama Bin Laden's Death
Washington Post:   Bin Laden's death may give Obama new authority on Afghan war
Tim Ross / Telegraph:
WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden killed after tip-offs from Guantanamo
Patrick Brethour / Globe and Mail:
Tories sweep to majority, NDP to Opposition in historic election  —  Canadian voters have radically redrawn the country's political landscape, handing the Conservative Party its long-sought majority in an election that decimated the Bloc Québécois and humbled the Liberals.
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CBC News:
Harper: Majority win turns page on uncertainties  —  Layton seizes Opposition; Duceppe, Ignatieff defeated in ridings as parties decimated  —  Beginning of Story Content  —  Canadians can now “turn the page on the uncertainties and repeat elections of the past seven years,” …
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Conservatives in Canada Expand Party's Hold
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
2012 Republican race gets wake-up call  —  Donald Trump and birtherism won't disappear.  There will still be talk about the creeping threat of Sharia law.  —  But the dramatic killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden by American commandos will immediately reorder a Republican presidential contest …
CNBC:
US Debt Rating Should Be ‘C’: Independent Agency  —  There have been increasing concerns about the fate of United States' prized triple-A sovereign debt rating.  While Standard and Poor's recently downgraded its U.S. debt outlook to negative from stable, implying that a ratings cut could happen in two years …
Discussion: Don Surber
Steven Nelson / The Daily Caller:
Kucinich may seek re-election from Washington State, not Ohio  —  Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich may be considering a move.  The eight-term Cleveland congressman is rumored to be interested in moving out of Ohio altogether to seek re-election to Congress from Washington State's 10th district.
David Firestone / New York Times:
What Happens in Brooklyn When You Try to Cut Medicare  —  Only one Republican represents New York City in Congress, and even in his 13th Congressional District, which includes Staten Island and a small southwest corner of Brooklyn, it's a high-wire act.  You can talk all you want about the need …
 
 
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