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8:10 PM ET, May 7, 2011

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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 …

Discussion: The Lede, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Breitbart.tv, newsfeed.time.com, Sense of Events, The Daily Beast, The Lonely Conservative and Pat Dollard

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.

Discussion: Althouse, Power Line, TalkLeft, Moe Lane, Pirate's Cove, Reuters and Washington Wire

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.

Discussion: Althouse, Emptywheel, Harry's Place, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, ABCNEWS and In the Arena

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.

Discussion: New York Magazine and Online NewsHour

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 …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Pajamas Media, Wake up America, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, LewRockwell.com Blog, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and NewsBusters.org

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.

Discussion: Pat Dollard, Washington Post and Salon

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 …

Discussion: A Chequer-Board of Nights …, Ben Smith's Blog and FrumForum

msnbc.com:
Videos show Osama bin Laden's secret life

Discussion: Hot Air, The Wire and TPMDC

Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden's Anti-U.S. Strategy: Exploit Minority Converts

Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Gothamist

Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Raid: Al Qaeda ‘Playbook’ Revealed

Discussion: Maggie's Notebook, Left Coast Rebel and Atlas Shrugs

CNN:
U.S. officials unveil videos of bin Laden

Discussion: Associated Press, Runnin' Scared and Gawker

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Unreal: Obama Allows Photos of Dead US Soldiers But Not Dead Terrorist

Discussion: Sadly, No!, Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air

msnbc.com:
Meanwhile, Pakistani officials say terror chief may have lived there for more than 7 years

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, LewRockwell.com Blog and New York Times

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 …

Discussion: BAGnewsNotes

Peter Schroeder / The Hill:

GOP vow to block nominees makes Warren more likely — A promise by Senate Republicans to block anyone President Obama nominates to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has increased the likelihood that Elizabeth Warren will get the job. — The president has little choice but to use …

Discussion: Booman Tribune

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.

Discussion: The Mahablog, Prairie Weather, Balloon Juice and The Talking Dog

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 …

Discussion: WisPolitics Election Blog

Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:

Supreme Court Denies Justice To Texas Cheerleader Who Refused To Cheer Her Alleged Rapist — Earlier this week, the Supreme Court declined to review the case of a recent Texas high school student who was kicked off her school's cheerleading squad after she refused to chant the name of a basketball player who had allegedly raped her.

Discussion: JustOneMinute, The Reality-Based Community, BET, Care2, Beacon Broadside, The Huffington Post, Pam's House Blend and Prairie Weather

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 …

Discussion: Conservatives4Palin and Red Dog Report

The White House:
Weekly Address: Clean Energy Will Help Us Out-Compete and Out-Innovate the Rest of the World

Discussion: Pirate's Cove, The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative, CNN and White House.gov Blog

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.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Red Dog Report, Mediaite and Gawker

Brian Montopoli / CBS News:

Andrew Breitbart on mainstream media's “contempt” for Americans — Conservative publisher Andrew Brietbart sat down for an extensive interview with CBSNews.com Friday in which he discussed his disdain for the mainstream media, offered his perspective on the Republican presidential field …

Alexander Marlow / Breitbart.tv:
Andrew Breitbart on Mainstream Media's ‘Contempt’ for Americans

Discussion: Power Line

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.

Discussion: Jihad Watch