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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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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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Weasel Zippers
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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Pam's House Blend and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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
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.
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Media Research Center, The Other McCain, Left Coast Rebel, Examiner, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and The Talking Dog
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, Emptywheel and Wall Street Journal
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
John Yoo: Obama Afraid To Capture Bin Laden (VIDEO)
John Yoo: Obama Afraid To Capture Bin Laden (VIDEO)
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Paul Krugman, Balloon Juice, American Power, Washington Post, CNN, Salon, UNCOVERAGE.net, Washington Monthly, Swampland and Outside the Beltway
Mallory Simon / This Just In:
Full statement from al Qaeda on Osama bin Laden's death
Full statement from al Qaeda on Osama bin Laden's death
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, National Review and TalkLeft
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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The Politico and Fox Nation
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's War — The secret behind the bin Laden takedown …
Obama's War — The secret behind the bin Laden takedown …
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Daily Kos, Wonk Room, The Greenroom, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly, Prairie Weather and The Democratic Daily
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
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
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
Graham to absentees: Come next time
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Weasel Zippers, Mother Jones, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Ballot Box and msnbc.com
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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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, Nice Deb, Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative, Pirate's Cove 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
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
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama: Nation can't drill its way out of soaring gas prices — President Obama called for the elimination of billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks Friday, while stressing that the United States can't drill its way out of high gas prices. — “We can't just drill our way out of the problem …
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Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
JSOnline:
Unions might drop state status — Some would skip facing difficult annual recertification votes — By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — If Gov. Scott Walker's union bargaining measure becomes law and forces do-or-die recertification votes for public employee unions …
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Old Hidden Fees, Meet New Hidden Fees — David Lazarus writes about Bank of America's latest attempt to improve its bottom line via hidden fees: … This is yet another example of a fee that (a) most people don't really know much about, (b) most people don't think they'll ever incur, and …
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Yglesias and Modeled Behavior