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1:30 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 …
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.
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.
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
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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
Michelle Malkin:
All About Obama: Who's politicizing bin Laden kill?  —  Leftists are swarming Twitter to chastise any conservatives who dare give any credit to President Bush for his resolve and role in leading the post-9/11 counterrorism/national security response to the worst attack on American soil.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Killing of bin Laden: What are the consequences?
Alyssa Rosenberg / Yglesias:
Kathryn Bigelow's bin Laden Movie-And Everyone Else's
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
White House Officials Debate Releasing Photographs of Bin Laden's Corpse
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:   The Death of Bin Laden and the Morality of Targeted Killings
Reuters:
U.S. team's mission was to kill bin Laden, not capture
Discussion: Shakesville and Sweetness & Light
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Musharraf condemns ‘violation of our sovereignty’
Nidal al-Mughrabi / Reuters:
Abbas government welcomes bin Laden death, Hamas deplores
Steve Coll / News Desk:   Notes on the Death of Osama bin Laden
Associated Press:   Islamic scholars question bin Laden's sea burial
Aamer Madhani / NationalJournal.com:
Step by Step: How the U.S. Killed bin Laden
Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. / The Jawa Report:
New York Islamists: Congratulations to Sheikh Osama bin Laden on His Martyrdom!
Discussion: Moonbattery
Elliott Abrams / Pressure Points:
Bin Laden, Obama, and the Arab Spring
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
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Former CIA official: US will likely release photos of bin Laden to prove he's dead
Discussion: The Hill and Runnin' Scared
The White House:
Remarks by the President on Osama Bin Laden East Room
Macon Phillips / White House.gov Blog:
Osama Bin Laden Dead
BBC:
Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden dead - Obama
Scott / Power Line:
Osama bin gone: Stephen Hunter comments
Discussion: National Review
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: Washington Post
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Scott Brown to train in Afghanistan
 
 
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Abbottabad — The military town where bin Laden hid in plain sight
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