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3:05 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:
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
David Sirota / Salon:
“USA!  USA!” is the wrong response  —  There is ample reason to feel relief that Osama bin Laden is no longer a threat to the world, and I say that not just because I was among the many congressional staffers told to flee the U.S. Capitol on 9/11.  I say that because he was clearly …
Discussion: National Review
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.
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 “an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains”, specifically Abbottabad, northern Pakistan.  —  The IT contractor and graduate …
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.
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.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Killing of bin Laden: What are the consequences?  —  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 — express unadulterated ecstacy …
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
Tim Ross / Telegraph:   WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden ‘protected’ by Pakistani security
The Atlantic Online:   What Bin Laden's Death Means: Seven Observations
Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Limbaugh: ‘We Need To Open The Program Today By Congratulating President Obama’
Reuters:
U.S. team's mission was to kill bin Laden, not capture
Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT, Shakesville and BLACKFIVE
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Graham questions decision to dispose of bin Laden's body
Michelle Malkin:
All About Obama: Who's politicizing bin Laden kill?
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:   The Death of Bin Laden and the Morality of Targeted Killings
Alyssa Rosenberg / Yglesias:
Kathryn Bigelow's bin Laden Movie-And Everyone Else's
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
David Frum / FrumForum:
Can We Stop Questioning Obama's Legitimacy Now?
Discussion: CNN
Steve Coll / News Desk:
Notes on the Death of Osama bin Laden
Discussion: ProPublica and Guardian
Tim Lister / CNN:
Abbottabad — The military town where bin Laden hid in plain sight
Discussion: Guardian
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
Safe Haven Myth Should Die With Bin Laden
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Cheney, Rumsfeld laud Obama
Ktvtphil / CBS Dallas:   Bush Home Buzzing After Bin Laden Killing
Dexter Filkins / News Desk:
What Pakistan Knew About bin Laden
Elliott Abrams / Pressure Points:
Bin Laden, Obama, and the Arab Spring
Nidal al-Mughrabi / Reuters:
Abbas government welcomes bin Laden death, Hamas deplores
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Maggie's Farm
Aamer Madhani / NationalJournal.com:
Step by Step: How the U.S. Killed bin Laden
Discussion: Pajamas Media
The White House:
Remarks by the President on Osama Bin Laden East Room
The Atlantic Online:
How bin Laden's Death Unites Us
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Former CIA official: US will likely release photos of bin Laden to prove he's dead
Discussion: Wonkette
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: A game-changer  —  Osama bin Laden's death …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Daily Kos
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.
 
 
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