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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, Pajamas Media, Weasel Zippers, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and LewRockwell.com 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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Left Coast Rebel and 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 and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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Firedoglake, PERRspectives, FrumForum, Hullabaloo, Salon, Right Wing News and Emptywheel
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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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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Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
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msnbc.com:
Meanwhile, Pakistani officials say terror chief may have lived there for more than 7 years
Meanwhile, Pakistani officials say terror chief may have lived there for more than 7 years
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Weasel Zippers, LewRockwell.com Blog and NY Daily News
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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Atlas Shrugs, 1 The Long War Journal, ABCNEWS, Pajamas Media, Associated Press, Hot Air and Wall Street Journal
The White House:
Weekly Address: Clean Energy Will Help Us Out-Compete and Out-Innovate the Rest of the World — WASHINGTON - Speaking to the American people from Indianapolis, Indiana, President Obama said that clean energy companies like Allison Transmissions will keep the economy growing, create new jobs …
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The Gateway Pundit, Right Wing News and White House.gov Blog
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Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
More U.S. Oil Drilling Won't Lower Gas Prices, Experts Say
More U.S. Oil Drilling Won't Lower Gas Prices, Experts Say
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ThinkProgress, The Hill, Mother Jones, Open Congress and Speaker
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama: Nation can't drill its way out of soaring gas prices
Obama: Nation can't drill its way out of soaring gas prices
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Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog:
Weekly Address: Clean Energy to Out-Innovate the Rest of the World
Weekly Address: Clean Energy to Out-Innovate the Rest of the World
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CNN
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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Aljazeera:
‘Co-ordinated attacks’ hit Afghan city — Taliban claims responsibility for assault on governor's compound, police buildings and intelligence offices in Kandahar. — Taliban fighters have launched a major assault on government buildings throughout Kandahar, the largest city in southern Afghanistan …
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The Agonist and Politics
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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Althouse and Washington Wire
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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Ben Smith's Blog and Outside the Beltway
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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
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Graham to absentees: Come next time
Graham to absentees: Come next time
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Mother Jones, Weasel Zippers, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Ben Smith's Blog and Ballot Box
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
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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Prairie Weather
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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WisPolitics Election Blog
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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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
Brendan O'Neill / spiked-online.com:
The rise and rise of a pity-for-Osama lobby — The chattering classes' ‘uncomfortable feeling’ with the killing of bin Laden is underpinned more by moral cowardice than political principle. — How did 'I hate bin Laden and I'm glad he's dead' become the most shocking thing one can say in polite society?
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National Review