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Bin Laden's Family Sentenced To Prison In Pakistan

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 04.02.2012

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ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two of his daughters to 45 days in prison on Monday for illegally liv...

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Cellphone Provides New Bin Laden-Pakistani Leads

AP | Posted 08.23.2011

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WASHINGTON — A cellphone of Osama bin Laden's trusted courier recovered in the U.S. raid last month that killed both men in Pakistan contained c...

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Tell Us Your Questions About Pakistan

Posted 07.26.2011

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In our Voices of Pakistan series, the Huffington Post is writing a series of articles exploring the views of the Pakistani people. Sobia Ali, a Huff P...

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The Best Way to Destroy an Enemy

Ethan Casey | Posted 07.23.2011

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I hope that Pakistanis who are understandably offended by U.S. violation of Pakistan's sovereignty will keep in mind that individual Americans don't represent, nor are we necessarily well represented by, the American government.

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Obama and Osama by William Shakespeare

James M. Lynch | Posted 07.20.2011

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Most people misunderstand Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. They see Hamlet as indecisive, melancholy and afraid to take action. They see...

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Osama Bin Laden Death Skeptics' Ranks Grow

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 07.09.2011

WASHINGTON -- First there were truthers. Then there were birthers. Now come the "deathers." Like their refusing-to-believe brethren, a small minori...

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WATCH: 'SNL' Releases Bin Laden's Last Will & Testament

Posted 07.08.2011

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It's been a week since the world learned of the death of Osama bin Laden, and "Saturday Night Live" got it's first crack at the story this weekend. As...

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Plugged In: The Best Tech Writing Of The Week

The Huffington Post | Thomas Houston | Posted 07.06.2011

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Fire up Instapaper! Here are our 5 essential tech reads for the week of May 1. This week, we've been enjoying pieces on the viral birth of a fake M...

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Ohio Hotel Says Broken Flag Not Mourning Bin Laden's Death

AP | Posted 11.15.2011

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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — An Ohio hotel has been fending off angry phone calls because a broken rope on its flagpole led some to think the business wa...

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WATCH: Jon Stewart Makes Curious Case For Showing Bin Laden Photos

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 07.05.2011

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America got hardly any respite between people calling for President Obama to show his birth certificate and people calling for the photographic eviden...

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LSU Student Wanted After Allegedly Burning Flag Following Osama Bin Laden's Death

Posted 07.05.2011

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A Louisiana State University student allegedly stole and burnt an American flag that flew over a campus war memorial shortly after President Obama ann...

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The Man Who Took Down Bin Laden: A Journalism Major

Posted 07.04.2011

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The man whose team took down Osama bin Laden is a 1977 graduate of the University of Texas-Austin. His degree from the school? Journalism. William H....

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LIVE Q&A: Ask The Man Who Live-Tweeted The Bin Laden Raid Anything

The Huffington Post | Jake Bialer | Posted 11.12.2011

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In the last few days, Sohaib Athar (@reallyvirtual) has gone from an IT consultant living in Pakistan to the "the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid w...

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Trump Takes Credit for Bin Laden Death: "I've Never Been More Proud of Myself"

Steve Young | Posted 07.04.2011

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On what he declared was the "greatest triumph" of his Presidential exploration campaign, Donald Trump declared that his efforts were vital to the kill...

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WATCH: Jon Stewart Rips Pakistan For Not Spotting Bin Laden

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 07.04.2011

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Jon Stewart admitted on Tuesday night's "Daily Show" that his initial coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden was an Id-driven, emotional catharsis. ...

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Fake MLK Jr. Quote Goes Viral

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 07.03.2011

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The death of Osama bin Laden not only sent waves across the Internet, but false information as well. A quotation falsely attributed to Luther King ...

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How Tech Helped Take Down Osama Bin Laden

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 07.02.2011

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It is possible to pinpoint several key junctures where technology played an important part in the takedown of Osama bin Laden, though significant gaps...

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Fallon Spoofs Trump: 'I Killed Osama Bin Laden'

Posted 07.03.2011

Jimmy Fallon broke out his hilarious Donald Trump impression once again Monday night, this time spoofing Trump's reaction to the news that Osama bin L...

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WATCH: Jon Stewart Reacts To Bin Laden's Demise With Delight

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 07.03.2011

Monday night's highly anticipated episode of the "The Daily Show" gave complete coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden, with Jon Stewart all but dan...

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Bin Laden's Death Sets Web Record

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 07.02.2011

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Twitter has just released new statistics on the surge of activity that followed news of Osama bin Laden's death. While the slew of Twitter status upda...

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PICTURES: Bin Laden's Alleged Compound Hits Google Maps

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 07.02.2011

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[UPDATE 1:] The CIA has released an illustrated rendering and satellite images of the bin Laden kill site. These official images do not match the orig...

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Bin Laden Raid Was Tweeted Live

Posted 07.02.2011

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By Reed Stevenson DUBAI - (Reuters) - In the early hours of Monday, Sohaib Athar reported on his Twitter account that a loud bang had rattled his ...

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New Yorkers Flood Ground Zero With Emotion Following Bin Laden Announcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 07.01.2011

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A sudden outpouring of New Yorkers made their way from around the city late Sunday night, celebrating jubilantly after President Obama announced that ...

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The Rise, Fall And Legacy Of America's Most Wanted Terrorist

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.17.2012

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NEW YORK -- Osama bin Laden, for more than a decade the world's most notorious terrorist, was killed in a targeted assault in the Pakistani city of Ab...

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Osama Bin Laden's Death Leaked Via Twitter

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 07.01.2011

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Twitter fairly exploded Sunday with the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan. President Obama confirmed just after 11:30 p.m. Sund...

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