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2:00 PM ET, May 2, 2011

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Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com:
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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New York Times:
Bin Laden Is Dead, Obama Says  —  WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Obama announced.
New York Times:
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 …
Dean Schabner / ABCNEWS:
Osama bin Laden Killed by U.S. Strike  —  Osama bin Laden, hunted as the mastermind behind the worst-ever terrorist attack on U.S. soil, has been killed, sources told ABC News.  —  His death brings to an end a tumultuous life that saw bin Laden go from being the carefree son of a Saudi billionaire …
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Joe Scarborough: Obama's Base Didn't Want Him To Catch Bin Laden  —  With the announcement of Osama Bin Laden's death last night, President Obama secured a decade-long goal in eliminating a mass murderer and global terrorist.  While his leadership behind the accomplishment has spurred …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Yes, Bin Laden's Death Will Help Obama, but for How Long?  —  Osama bin Laden is dead.  —  I got the news on Twitter while in a taxi back from J.F.K. Airport.  I told my cabbie, who was in disbelief at first, to turn the radio on.  We took in the story together.  I'm as patriotic as the next guy: it was a nice moment.
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
40 Minutes That Changed the World: Inside the Operation That Brought Bin Laden Down  —  Exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is shown in Afghanistan, in this April 1998 file photo.  A person familiar with developments on Sunday, May 1, 2011 says bin Laden is dead and the U.S. has the body.
The Atlantic Online:
Osama Bin Laden's Compound Already Mapped on Google  —  Less than an hour ago, President Obama addressed the nation in a special press conference held to announce the death of Osama Bin Laden.  The September 11 mastermind was hiding out in a mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan, about 80 miles north of Islamabad.
The Note:
Osama Bin Laden Body Headed for Burial at Sea, Officials Say  —  ABC News' Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) reports: Now that bin Laden has been killed and his body has been positively identified, what is to be done with his remains?  —  U.S. officials tell me the last thing they want is for his burial place to become a terrorist shrine.
Ryan Brenizer:
Osama is Dead; Photos from a historic party at Ground Zero  —  On a gorgeous September day almost ten years ago, I had just started my morning as the editor-in-chief of an upstate newspaper when one of my reporters told me a plane had hit the World Trade Center.
Discussion: Left Coast Rebel
Matt Negrin / The Politico:
Corpse handled in ‘Islamic practice’  —  The United States is treating Osama bin Laden's body in “accordance with Islamic practice,” a White House official says.  —  President Obama announced Sunday night that American forces killed bin Laden in Pakistan and that they took his body afterward.
NationalJournal.com:
TEXT: President George W. Bush's Statement on Osama Bin Laden's Death  —  Earlier this evening, President Obama called to inform me that American forces killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al Qaeda network that attacked America on September 11, 2001.  —  I congratulated him and the men …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Pakistanis Stunned and Angered at News of Osama's Death  —  People buy newspapers reporting the killing of Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, at local newspaper printing press in Karachi, Pakistan Monday, May 2, 2011.  (VOA)  —  Pakistanis are stunned by the news of Osama Bin Laden's death.
Discussion: Voice of America
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Here's the guy who unwittingly live-tweeted the raid on Bin Laden  —  Yesterday Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual on Twitter) was just a “an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains”, specifically Abbottabad, northern Pakistan.  —  The IT contractor and graduate …
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
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.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Killing of bin Laden: What are the consequences?
Michelle Malkin:
All About Obama: Who's politicizing bin Laden kill?
David Sirota / Salon:
“USA! USA!” is the wrong response
Discussion: National Review
Reuters:
U.S. team's mission was to kill bin Laden, not capture
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:   The Death of Bin Laden and the Morality of Targeted Killings
Tim Lister / CNN:
Abbottabad — The military town where bin Laden hid in plain sight
Discussion: Guardian
Steve Coll / News Desk:   Notes on the Death of Osama bin Laden
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Graham questions decision to dispose of bin Laden's body
Alyssa Rosenberg / Yglesias:
Kathryn Bigelow's bin Laden Movie-And Everyone Else's
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Nidal al-Mughrabi / Reuters:
Abbas government welcomes bin Laden death, Hamas deplores
Aamer Madhani / NationalJournal.com:
Step by Step: How the U.S. Killed bin Laden
Elliott Abrams / Pressure Points:
Bin Laden, Obama, and the Arab Spring
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
What Osama bin Laden's Death Means
The White House:
Remarks by the President on Osama Bin Laden East Room
Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. / The Jawa Report:
New York Islamists: Congratulations to Sheikh Osama bin Laden on His Martyrdom!
Discussion: Moonbattery
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
Safe Haven Myth Should Die With Bin Laden
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Former CIA official: US will likely release photos of bin Laden to prove he's dead
Discussion: Wonkette and Runnin' Scared
Associated Press:   Islamic scholars question bin Laden's sea burial
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:   Osama Bin Laden's Death Could Be a Great Time To Declare Victory In The “War On Terror”
Dexter Filkins / News Desk:
What Pakistan Knew About bin Laden
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Cheney, Rumsfeld laud Obama
Discussion: The Caucus
The Atlantic Online:   What Bin Laden's Death Means: Seven Observations
Glen Johnson / Boston Globe:
Brown heading for Afghanistan  —  UPDATED  —  Senator Scott Brown issued a statement this morning saying he has requested to conduct his annual National Guard training in Afghanistan. … Brown has been in the Guard since 1979, but he has never been deployed to a war zone.
Discussion: CNN, The Note and Washington Post
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Scott Brown to train in Afghanistan
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Giuliani praises Obama's ‘courage’  —  Rudy Giuliani praised President Obama's “courage” for the risky method he chose to take down Osama bin Laden, adding his death is a “significant step” in the war on terror - but saying the tones of jubilation feel strange to him.
Discussion: Cubachi and Runnin' Scared
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE 2008 DEBATE, REVISITED.... In July 2008, CNN's Larry King interviewed then-presidential candidate John McCain.  The host asked the Republican senator, “If you were president and knew that bin Laden was in Pakistan, you know where, would you have U.S. forces go in after him?”  —  McCain said he would not.
 
 
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