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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 …
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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.
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New York Magazine, Connecting.the.Dots and Online NewsHour
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Death of Osama bin Laden: Phone call pointed U.S. to compound — and to ‘the pacer’
Death of Osama bin Laden: Phone call pointed U.S. to compound — and to ‘the pacer’
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The Gateway Pundit, Althouse, Emptywheel, Harry's Place and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
msnbc.com:
Videos show Osama bin Laden's secret life
Videos show Osama bin Laden's secret life
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The Wire, Associated Press, Hot Air and TPMDC
Charles Hoskinson / The Politico:
Osama Bin Laden was still in control, U.S. says
Osama Bin Laden was still in control, U.S. says
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Ben Smith's Blog, A Chequer-Board of Nights … and FrumForum
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Unreal: Obama Allows Photos of Dead US Soldiers But Not Dead Terrorist
Unreal: Obama Allows Photos of Dead US Soldiers But Not Dead Terrorist
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Scared Monkeys, Michelle Malkin, Sadly, No! and Weasel Zippers
Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden's Anti-U.S. Strategy: Exploit Minority Converts
Osama Bin Laden's Anti-U.S. Strategy: Exploit Minority Converts
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Atlas Shrugs
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The First-Person Presidency
The First-Person Presidency
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The Gateway Pundit, Moe Lane, No More Mister Nice Blog and Power Line
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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A Chequer-Board of Nights …, Hot Air, Moe Lane, Pirate's Cove, Power Line, National Review and Mediaite
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Noam Chomsky: “It's increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law." — “There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Reality-Based Community
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Why Pakistan knew it could hide Osama — As my old friends at The Spectator in London pointed out Monday morning, I scooped the entire planet in breaking the news of Osama bin Laden's death: “Osama bin Laden is dead, says Mark Steyn.” This was in The Spectator's edition of June 29, 2002, which turned out to be a wee bit premature.
Daily Mail:
Robed Muslim clerics kicked off U.S. flight after pilot refuses to take off with them (and they were en route to conference on Islamophobia) — Two Muslim religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis - and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard.
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Weasel Zippers and Don Surber
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Beth Shayne / WCNC-TV:
Muslim men say they were taken off flight to Charlotte — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two Muslim religious leaders who were removed from a commercial airliner in Memphis say they were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard. — Masudur Rahman and Mohamed Zaghloul were supposed …
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Truthdig, Gawker and Crooks and Liars
Times of India:
Pakistan breaches trust, names local CIA boss — WASHINGTON: Amid bitter, recriminatory exchanges between the United States and Pakistan over the Osama bin Laden extermination, planned bilateral visits of President Asif Ali Zardari to Washington DC and a return trip of President Barack Obama to Islamabad are both in jeopardy.
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Weasel Zippers
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Video Catches Obama Passing Secret Note to Air Force General — The scene took place two hours after the President gave the order to launch the raid on Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.
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Mediaite
Mark Thoma / Economist's View:
“We Dare Not Let This Happen” (But Don't Support Doing Anything About It) — Dean Baker is frustrated with a Washington Post editorial telling the public there's nothing we can do about the unemployment problem, a problem it cannot even characterize correctly (see Dean on this point). Me too.
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Washington Post, Greg Mankiw's Blog, Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality …
Ryan Creed / ABCNEWS:
Michelle Obama Praises SEALs in Commencement Speech — First lady Michelle Obama today praised the bravery of the Navy SEALs who carried out the raid on Osama bin Laden, calling it “the essence of the word ‘service,’” in her commencement address at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.
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Weasel Zippers, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and Political Punch
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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Poynter and 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 …
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Booman Tribune
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 …
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Alexander Marlow / Breitbart.tv:
Andrew Breitbart on Mainstream Media's ‘Contempt’ for Americans
Andrew Breitbart on Mainstream Media's ‘Contempt’ for Americans
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Power Line