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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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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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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 …
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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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‘Minutes Passed Like Days’ As WH Watched Osama Bin Laden Operation Unfold — 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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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 …


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 …

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 …


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.


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:

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 …
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Dick Cheney Says ‘Obama Deserves Credit’ for Osama Bin Laden's Death — Former Vice President Dick Cheney praised President Obama for the success of the mission against Osama bin Laden, but in an exclusive interview with ABC News warned that it would be “a tragedy” to spend so much time …


Clues Gradually Led to the Location of Qaeda Chief — WASHINGTON — For years, the agonizing search for Osama bin Laden kept coming up empty. Then last July, Pakistanis working for the Central Intelligence Agency drove up behind a white Suzuki navigating the bustling streets near Peshawar …
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Did DNA Finger 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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Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security …
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Hundreds join Quetta rally to honour bin Laden
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MP: Bin Laden Killed for Fear of Intelligence Leakage
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WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden killed after tip-offs from Guantanamo
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Bin Laden Given Religious Funeral Prior to Sea Burial
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The Osama bin Laden Trail Shows Waterboarding Didn't Work
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Joy Behar and Barbara Walters Politicize Bin Laden Death: Just Cancel 2012 Election Now
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What Obama does next will help define the legacy of Osama Bin Laden.
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How the U.S. found and finished Bin Laden
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Right-Wing Media Accuse Obama Of Making Bin Laden Death All About Himself

Dianne Feinstein: Bin Laden Was At Pakistan Compound For Up To Six Years

“USA! USA!” is the wrong response
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Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden are from the elite ‘Team 6’
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One Unwary Phone Call Led US to Bin Laden Doorstep
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Osama Bin Laden's Death: Proving Liberals Really Don't Mean Their Rhetoric
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Skeptics say bin Laden lives
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Display Bin Laden's Body At Ground Zero. Then Destroy The Al Qaeda Legacy.
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Sea burial of Osama bin Laden breaks sharia law, say Muslim scholars
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Can We Stop Questioning Obama's Legitimacy Now?
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History Suggests a Rally in Obama's Job Approval Rating as a Result of Bin Laden's Death
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Osama Bin Laden Dead: The Navy SEALs Who Hunted and Killed Al Qaeda Leader
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Limbaugh commends Obama, sort of
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Official: Bin Laden buried at sea
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The Secret Team That Killed bin Laden
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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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Conservatives in Canada Expand Party's Hold — OTTAWA — The Conservative Party will again govern Canada, this time with a majority, following the country's fourth election in seven years. — In addition, incomplete results late Monday night clearly indicated that the New Democratic Party …

Let's Hear It For “Cheney's Assassination Squad” — Mark Hemingway reminds us that back in the bad old days of the Bush administration, when the Joint Special Operations Command carried out extra-judicial, theoretically “illegal,” and highly effective raids, liberals referred to them as “Dick Cheney's Assassination Squad:”

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.