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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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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 …
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
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.
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 …
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Dan Wheat / The Daily Astorian:
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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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 …
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The Express Tribune:
Hundreds join Quetta rally to honour bin Laden — Hundreds took to the streets of Quetta on Monday to pay homage to Osama bin Laden, chanting death to America and setting fire to a US flag, witnesses and organisers said. — Angry participants belonging to a religious party in Quetta …
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Paul Joseph Watson / Alex Jones' Infowars:
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 …
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TPMDC:
‘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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Maggie Fox / NationalJournal.com:
Did DNA Finger bin Laden? — Osama bin Laden in 2001. Can DNA prove that he died in a shootout near Islamabad? — His face is one of the most recognizable in the world, but in the end, could it have been DNA fingerprinting that proved to U.S. officials that they had finally nailed Osama bin Laden?
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Fars News Agency:
MP: Bin Laden Killed for Fear of Intelligence Leakage
MP: Bin Laden Killed for Fear of Intelligence Leakage
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Emptywheel:
The Osama bin Laden Trail Shows Waterboarding Didn't Work
The Osama bin Laden Trail Shows Waterboarding Didn't Work
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Tim Ross / Telegraph:
WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden killed after tip-offs from Guantanamo
WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden killed after tip-offs from Guantanamo
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Guardian, National Review and Pajamas Media
The White House:
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security …
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security …
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Guardian, New York Times and Politics
Michelle Malkin / Media Matters for America:
Right-Wing Media Accuse Obama Of Making Bin Laden Death All About Himself
Right-Wing Media Accuse Obama Of Making Bin Laden Death All About Himself
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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:
Joy Behar and Barbara Walters Politicize Bin Laden Death: Just Cancel 2012 Election Now
Joy Behar and Barbara Walters Politicize Bin Laden Death: Just Cancel 2012 Election Now
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
What Obama does next will help define the legacy of Osama Bin Laden.
What Obama does next will help define the legacy of Osama Bin Laden.
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Dianne Feinstein: Bin Laden Was At Pakistan Compound For Up To Six Years
Dianne Feinstein: Bin Laden Was At Pakistan Compound For Up To Six Years
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Fox News:
Bin Laden Given Religious Funeral Prior to Sea Burial
Bin Laden Given Religious Funeral Prior to Sea Burial
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David Weigel / Weigel:
Osama bin Trutherism is Born
Osama bin Trutherism is Born
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David Sirota / Salon:
“USA! USA!” is the wrong response
“USA! USA!” is the wrong response
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Santorum's Response To Bin Laden's Death Is To Accuse Obama Of Not Defending American Freedom
Santorum's Response To Bin Laden's Death Is To Accuse Obama Of Not Defending American Freedom
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
How the U.S. found and finished Bin Laden
How the U.S. found and finished Bin Laden
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The Smoking Gun
Melissa Clouthier / RedState:
Osama Bin Laden's Death: Proving Liberals Really Don't Mean Their Rhetoric
Osama Bin Laden's Death: Proving Liberals Really Don't Mean Their Rhetoric
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Adam Goldman / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Officials: CIA interrogators at secret prisons developed first strands that led to bin Laden
Officials: CIA interrogators at secret prisons developed first strands that led to bin Laden
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Polling Matters:
History Suggests a Rally in Obama's Job Approval Rating as a Result of Bin Laden's Death
History Suggests a Rally in Obama's Job Approval Rating as a Result of Bin Laden's Death
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Associated Press:
One Unwary Phone Call Led US to Bin Laden Doorstep
One Unwary Phone Call Led US to Bin Laden Doorstep
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Washington Post:
Complications after a night of jubilation
Complications after a night of jubilation
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Guardian:
Sea burial of Osama bin Laden breaks sharia law, say Muslim scholars
Sea burial of Osama bin Laden breaks sharia law, say Muslim scholars
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New York Times, Mother Jones, Global Spin, Battleland and CBS News
Michael Murray / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Dead: The Navy SEALs Who Hunted and Killed Al Qaeda Leader
Osama Bin Laden Dead: The Navy SEALs Who Hunted and Killed Al Qaeda Leader
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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,” …
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Don Surber, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Stix Blog ver 4.0, Pundit Press and GayPatriot
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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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Ian Austen / New York Times:
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 …
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The Page
John / Power Line:
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:”
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 …
USA Today:
Levee blasted along Mississippi River to spare Cairo, Ill. — The Army Corps of Engineers blasted a large hole in an earthen levee along the Mississippi River on Monday night to divert rising floodwaters across Missouri farm fields to save the town of Cairo, Ill., from flooding.
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The Other McCain
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
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.
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