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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 and Weasel Zippers
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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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Atlas Shrugs
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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Emptywheel, ABCNEWS and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Matt Hadro / NewsBusters.org:
Michael Moore: You ‘Hate Being an American’ If You Wanted Bin Laden Killed Without a Trial — Ever looking to criticize the American populace from his cardboard platform, filmmaker Michael Moore lashed out Thursday on CNN at supporters of Osama bin Laden's assassination.
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Rick Santorum: Obama 'Didn't Get Osama Bin Laden!' — Since President Obama's surprise announcement Sunday night that American forces had killed Osama bin Laden, conservatives and Bush loyalists have been trying to claim some of the glory and redeem the discredited torture policies of the Bush administration.
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The Reaction, Wonk Room, The Greenroom, Pam's House Blend, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, TPMDC and Washington Monthly
Dan Froomkin / The Huffington Post:
Torture May Have Slowed Hunt For Bin Laden, Not Hastened It
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PERRspectives, Hullabaloo, Salon, FrumForum, UNCOVERAGE.net, Emptywheel and Swampland
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama to special ops team that killed bin Laden: ‘Job well done’
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The Politico and Fox Nation
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's War — The secret behind the bin Laden takedown …
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Daily Kos
New York Times:
Probing Link to Bin Laden, U.S. Tells Pakistan to Name Agents — 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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FrumForum
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Jeremy Bernstein / New York Review of Books:
That ‘Sweet Abbottabad Air’ — Children looking out over the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, May 3, 2011 — Sometime before he left the town that he founded in 1853—and where, a century and a half later, Osama bin Laden was discovered hiding out in a concrete mansion …
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New York Times and Online NewsHour
msnbc.com:
Meanwhile, Pakistani officials say terror chief may have lived there for more than 7 years
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Weasel Zippers and LewRockwell.com Blog
Eli Lake / Washington Times:
Evidence at bin Laden's home raises nuclear concerns
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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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Outside the Beltway
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Graham to absentees: Come next time
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Weasel Zippers, Mother Jones, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Ballot Box and msnbc.com
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
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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On this day of all days! …
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Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media and The Gateway Pundit
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 and Boing Boing
Zombie / Pajamas Media:
SEIU drops mask, goes full commie — A May Day rally in Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the SEIU and various communist groups, as well as other unions, reflected yet another step in the normalization of self-identified communist and socialist ideologies in the Obama era.
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Power Line, Weasel Zippers, Nice Deb, Pirate's Cove, The Lonely Conservative and Riehl World View
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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Balkinization and Salon
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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Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, msnbc.com and Gawker
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The First-Person Presidency — Here are a few excerpts from President Obama's speech on Sunday night about the killing of Osama bin Laden. — “Tonight, I can report . . . And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta . . . I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden …
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Power Line and Pundit & Pundette
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