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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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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 …
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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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Atlas Shrugs
Matt Hadro / NewsBusters.org:
Michael Moore: You ‘Hate Being an American’ If You Wanted Bin Laden Killed Without a Trial
Michael Moore: You ‘Hate Being an American’ If You Wanted Bin Laden Killed Without a Trial
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Rick Santorum: Obama 'Didn't Get Osama Bin Laden!'
Rick Santorum: Obama 'Didn't Get Osama Bin Laden!'
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The Reaction, Wonk Room, The Greenroom, Pam's House Blend, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly and Prairie Weather
Dan Froomkin / The Huffington Post:
Torture May Have Slowed Hunt For Bin Laden, Not Hastened It
Torture May Have Slowed Hunt For Bin Laden, Not Hastened It
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PERRspectives, Hullabaloo, FrumForum, Salon, UNCOVERAGE.net, Emptywheel and Swampland
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama to special ops team that killed bin Laden: ‘Job well done’
Obama to special ops team that killed bin Laden: ‘Job well done’
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Fox Nation and The Politico
New York Times:
U.S. Demands More From Pakistan in Bin Laden Inquiry — WASHINGTON — Pakistani officials say the Obama administration has demanded the identities of some of their top intelligence operatives as the United States tries to determine whether any of them had contact with Osama bin Laden …
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msnbc.com:
Meanwhile, Pakistani officials say terror chief may have lived there for more than 7 years — Below: — WASHINGTON — Americans are expected to get a glimpse of Osama bin Laden's daily life with the disclosure of home videos that show him strolling around his secret compound …
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Weasel Zippers and LewRockwell.com Blog
Jeremy Bernstein / New York Review of Books:
That ‘Sweet Abbottabad Air’
That ‘Sweet Abbottabad Air’
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New York Times and Online NewsHour
Eli Lake / Washington Times:
Evidence at bin Laden's home raises nuclear concerns
Evidence at bin Laden's home raises nuclear concerns
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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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ThinkProgress, WSOC-TV, The Raw Story and Boing Boing
CNN:
Santorum: Obama doesn't understand America — Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) - Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had a ballroom packed with South Carolina Republican insiders all to himself on Friday night when he addressed the state party's annual fundraising banquet in Columbia.
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Graham to absentees: Come next time
Graham to absentees: Come next time
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Weasel Zippers and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Democracy in America:
And they're off... RON PAUL made a pretty young couple's night …
And they're off... RON PAUL made a pretty young couple's night …
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Slate Magazine, The Atlantic Online, The Daily Beast and The Daily Dish
Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Huntsman's service in administration gets pass from some GOPers
Huntsman's service in administration gets pass from some GOPers
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The Politico, Mother Jones, Washington Post, Ben Smith's Blog and msnbc.com
Jamie Klatell / Ballot Box:
Huntsman calls for ‘new thinking’ in first post-administration speech — Former Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, a likely candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, sought to explain his time working in the Obama administration in his first major speech since resigning last weekend.
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Joe Nocera / New York Times:
You Call That Tough? — The only thing missing from Preet Bharara's press conference was the blaring of trumpets. — It was Tuesday, and the U.S. attorney in Manhattan was proudly unveiling a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank that his office had filed that morning.
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Brendan Abbot / Daily Express:
FURIOUS BIN LADEN SUPPORTERS VOW TO TAKE REVENGE — HUNDREDS of Osama bin Laden supporters clashed with English Defence League extremists today as a “funeral service” for the assassinated terror leader sparked fury outside London's US Embassy. — Police stepped in to separate …
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Hot Air and Atlas Shrugs
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Ben Bowens / CBS Philly:
Police: IED Found Near Chester Train Tracks — CHESTER, Pa. (CBS) - Chester police are urging vigilance after they found an improvised explosive device, this afternoon, near Amtrak and Septa railroad tracks and the Commodore Barry Bridge. — Police say the device consisted of two bottles with a yellow liquid inside.
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The Jawa Report
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Power Struggle in Iran Enters the Mosque — The unprecedented power struggle between the two most powerful leaders in Iran deepened Friday, spilling out into Tehran's public prayers where the mullah leading the service indirectly criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while the crowd chanted …
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The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
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 …
Juana Summers / The Politico:
Giuliani: Running a possibility — Rudy Giuliani called for a return to American exceptionalism Friday, telling a group of GOP lawyers gathered in the nation's capital that Ronald Reagan fundamentally changed how Americans felt about themselves. — Before Reagan was elected, Giuliani said …
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Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, CNN and Reuters
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Politics of Solipsism — The United States, as you know, was founded as a republic, not simply as a democracy. The distinction has been lost over the past few decades, but it is an important one. — The believers in a democracy have unlimited faith in the character and judgment …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Tried but Failed to Kill Yemeni Cleric — A U.S. drone strike in Yemen Thursday was aimed at killing Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical cleric suspected of orchestrating terrorist attacks in the U.S, but the missile missed its target, according to Yemeni and U.S. officials.
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