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2:10 PM ET, May 7, 2011

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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Left Coast Rebel and Atlas Shrugs
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
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 …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
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msnbc.com:
New details about bin Laden being released
msnbc.com:
Meanwhile, Pakistani officials say terror chief may have lived there for more than 7 years
Jeremy Bernstein / New York Review of Books:
That ‘Sweet Abbottabad Air’
Discussion: New York Times and Online NewsHour
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, Reuters and Washington Wire
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: Red Dog Report
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Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog:
Weekly Address: Clean Energy to Out-Innovate the Rest of the World
Discussion: CNN
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 …
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
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Aljazeera:
‘Co-ordinated attacks’ hit Afghan city
Discussion: Politics and The Agonist
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.
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.
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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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.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
More U.S. Oil Drilling Won't Lower Gas Prices, Experts Say … WASHINGTON — Republicans used the politically potent argument about the cost of gas Thursday to pass a bill expanding offshore oil and gas exploration.  But analysts say there's a major flaw in their case: More drilling will barely budge prices.
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama: Nation can't drill its way out of soaring gas prices
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
The Right Scoop:
Sarah Palin talks energy, jabs MSM with David Asman  —  Sarah Palin discusses how Obama is diminishing our energy supply which is causing our fuel prices to go up.  She's said before that she doesn't believe any of this will change until 2012 and I completely agree.  —  She also takes a nice jab at the MSM at the end:
Discussion: Nice Deb and Conservatives4Palin
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?
Discussion: National Review
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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Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
Fmr Obama Advisor Pushing “Human Rights” For Nature
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Jamie Klatell / Ballot Box:
Huntsman calls for ‘new thinking’ in first post-administration speech
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The First-Person Presidency
Brendan Abbot / Daily Express:
FURIOUS BIN LADEN SUPPORTERS VOW TO TAKE REVENGE
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
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