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Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Videos Released by Government — The government today released five videos found in Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, showing the al Qaeda leader preparing a message to the United States and watching himself on television. — The first was a previously …
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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Death of Osama bin Laden: Phone call pointed U.S. to compound — and to ‘the pacer’ — It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to U.S. intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend.
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Noam Chomsky / guernicamag.com:
My Reaction to Osama bin Laden's Death — We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. — It's increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law.
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Daily Mail:
ZAWAHIRI: THE EGYPTIAN TERROR BOSS SET TO REPLACE BIN LADEN — Ayman Al Zawahiri met Osama Bin Laden in the mid-1980s while supporting mujahideen guerrillas fighting Soviets in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. — The Egyptian was born in Cairo in 1951 to a prominent family …
Adam Entous / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Releases bin Laden Videos — The U.S. government released five videos of Osama bin Laden that were seized during the raid on his compound in Pakistan and which help show, a senior intelligence official said, that his hideout was an “active command-and-control center” for al Qaeda.
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Videos From Bin Laden's Hide-Out Released — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Saturday released five videos recovered from Osama bin Laden's hide-out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that show him threatening the United States, condemning capitalism and, in the most candid scenes, watching news coverage of himself on television.
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Fox News:
Home Videos Offer Glimpse Into Bin Laden's Life Inside Lair — WASHINGTON — A detailed portrait of Usama bin Laden's daily life emerged Saturday from the single largest intelligence collection ever, including a disclosure of home videos that show him watching news coverage of himself on television.
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Charles Hoskinson / The Politico:
Osama Bin Laden was still in control, U.S. says — Osama bin Laden maintained operational control of Al Qaeda from his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Saturday, citing material found in the compound. — “This compound in Abbottabad was an active command …
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Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Raid: Al Qaeda ‘Playbook’ Revealed — U.S. intelligence is now in possession of a veritable “playbook” of al Qaeda operations — from potential terror attack targets to information on international safe houses and top commanders — thanks to the Navy SEAL raid that took …
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msnbc.com:
New details about bin Laden being released
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CNN:
U.S. officials unveil videos of bin Laden
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Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden's Anti-U.S. Strategy: Exploit Minority Converts
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Unreal: Obama Allows Photos of Dead US Soldiers But Not Dead Terrorist
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
Face That Screamed War's Pain Looks Back, 6 Hard Years Later — MOSUL, Iraq — Until the past week, Samar Hassan had never glimpsed the photograph of her that millions had seen, never knew it had become one of the most famous images of the Iraq war. — “My brother was sick …
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Paul Krugman:
Shadow of the Torturers — After reading John Yoo's attack on the president for not taking Osama alive and bringing him to Gitmo, I thought I might take a minute to explain something I sometimes say. Once in a while I mention, in passing, that the Bush administration saw torturing people as a plus, not a cost.
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Kloppenburg Laying Foundation To Delegitimize Inevitable Prosser Win — The recount in Wisconsin is moving along pretty much as expected given the history of recounts in Wisconsin: There hasn't been much change in the vote count. — As of the end of the day yesterday, with 82% of the voting units in …
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Barack Obama: Clean energy will deliver the ‘jobs of the future’ — For the third weekend in a row, President Barack Obama used his weekly address to the nation on Saturday to promote his energy agenda, calling clean energy jobs the “jobs of the future.” — Speaking from the Allison …
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The White House:
Weekly Address: Clean Energy Will Help Us Out-Compete and Out-Innovate the Rest of the World
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Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog:
Weekly Address: Clean Energy to Out-Innovate the Rest of the World
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Jonathan Tilove / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Gov. Bobby Jindal releases his birth certificate — Gov. Bobby Jindal arrived in the United States in utero, his mother about three months pregnant. — As he wrote last year in his book, “Leadership and Crisis,” his mother had been offered a scholarship in 1970 to complete a graduate degree in nuclear physics at LSU.
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BBC:
Afghanistan: Fierce fighting follows Kandahar attack — Heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have reportedly been used by both sides — Intense fighting is taking place in Afghanistan's second city of Kandahar amid co-ordinated militant attacks, including at least six suicide bombs.
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CNN:
Muslim group: two imams pulled from plane bound for North Carolina — (CNN) — An airline is investigating the removal of two imams from a flight headed to North Carolina, ostensibly because passengers felt uncomfortable with their presence of the pair — both clad in Islamic attire.
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