Osama Bin Laden Dead

Review: 'Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad'

Dr. Adam Lankford | Posted 05.31.2012

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Dr. Adam Lankford

This superbly researched account of the United States' decade-long effort to track and kill bin Laden provides the intimate details on virtually every critical decision along the way.

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Learning From Bin Laden's Death

Arie Kruglanski | Posted 05.06.2012

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Arie Kruglanski

Are we safer now than we were before the launch of our massive counterterrorism effort?

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What Al Qaeda Thinks Of U.S. Media Outlets And Journalists

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Shapiro | Posted 05.03.2012

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Materials taken from Osama bin Laden's compound following his death in May 2011, which revealed that al Qaeda has major issues with Fox News, were pub...

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WATCH: Killing Bin Laden Was The 'Most Important' Day Of My Presidency

Posted 05.03.2012

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A year after the killing of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama reflected on the decision he made to carry out the deadly raid. In an interview...

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Osama bin Laden and the Morality of Celebrating Death

Kevin Hansen | Posted 05.02.2012

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Kevin Hansen

Osama bin Laden's death meant that Americans had one less evil to fear in the world. Most of the youth at the White House were not celebrating the death of a human being, but rather a long-awaited return of their belief in American exceptionalism.

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Osama Bin Laden Death: A Look Back One Year Later

Posted 05.01.2012

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One year after Osama bin Laden's death, President Barack Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday. HuffPost's Jennifer Bendery re...

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No Medium, No Message, No Closure?

Jody Lyneé Madeira | Posted 05.01.2012

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Jody Lyneé Madeira

If the federal government had the capacity to successfully arrange a secure broadcast of the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001, then surely it could arrange for a secure viewing of a select number of images of bin Laden's corpse now.

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Who Is More Macho? Why Obama Made the Right Call on bin Laden and the Wrong Call on His Fearmongering Ad

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.02.2012

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Arianna Huffington

The Obama administration has every reason to celebrate the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's killing, as does the country. Less laudable is Obama's attack ad questioning whether Mitt Romney would have made the same call to go after the man behind the 9/11 attacks.

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Obama Right, GOP Horribly Wrong on bin Laden Ad

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.01.2012

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Jon Soltz

I'm confused at the attack on President Obama, because the rank hypocrisy being demonstrated by Republicans is so blatantly obvious, that it's hard to believe they want to highlight it.

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PHOTOS: How Newspapers Covered Osama bin Laden's Death

Posted 05.01.2012

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Tuesday marks the one year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death. Few Americans will forget where they were when they heard the news. Reports of ...

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The Eternal "War on Terror"

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.01.2012

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Michael Brenner

We are into the second decade of the "war on terror." It now ranges from the mountains of Afghanistan to the jungles of Colombia. It has dominated our lives since 9/11. Yet there is no measure of success to gauge progress or to say when it may end.

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Andrea Stone

John Brennan: Drones Strikes Are 'Ethical And Just' [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.30.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Saying that President Barack Obama "has instructed us to be more open with the American people" in the use of drones to kill suspected t...

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Romney Hits Back Against Bin Laden Charge

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 04.30.2012

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hit back Monday against President Barack Obama's campaign's charge that he might not have ordered the raid to ki...

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Obama Using Major Mission As Political Weapon

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 04.28.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The killing of Osama bin Laden, first presented as a moment of national unity by President Barack Obama, has become something else: a po...

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New Book Reveals Details Of Bin Laden's Last Days

Posted 04.27.2012

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Not only was family life a source of solace for Osama bin Laden, the former al Qaeda leader strongly believed polygamy was a religious obligation. The...

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US-Pakistani Relations "Challenging," Says Ex-Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 05.19.2012

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Faisal J. Abbas

Asked if the Pakistani government or the ISI could have possibly been involved in harboring Osama bin Laden, the former PM replies, "This is totally untrue."

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Al Qaeda's Secret Hate For Fox News

Posted 03.16.2012

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Materials taken from Osama bin Laden's compound following his death in May 2011 reveal that Al Qaeda has major issues with Fox News. Columnist Davi...

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REVEALED: Bin Laden's Drama With Wives

AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 05.07.2012

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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — Osama bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided, amid wives riven by suspicions. On the top floor, sharing his b...

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WATCH: Biden Advised Against Bin Laden Raid

Posted 01.31.2012

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Vice President Joe Biden says he advised against the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. In a speech delivered over the weekend at a Democratic congr...

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Defense Secretary: Pakistani Doctor Provided Key Information To U.S. In Advance Of Bin Laden Raid

AP | By ROBERT BURNS | Posted 01.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S....

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Stars Join Hollywood's War Over Bin Laden

Posted 03.07.2012

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Kathryn Bigelow's film about the military's hunt for Osama Bin Laden is on the verge of enlisting three new stars. According to a number of reports, ...

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The Top News Stories Of 2011

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 02.16.2012

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NEW YORK (AP) — The killing of Osama bin Laden during a raid by Navy SEALs on his hideout in Pakistan was the top news story of 2011, followed by Ja...

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A Salute To 4-Legged Heroes For Veteran's Day

Posted 01.09.2012

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When you raise your flag on Veteran's Day, make sure to keep the four-legged heroes in mind, too. Monday marked the first American Humane Associati...

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CIA's 'Vengeful Librarians' Following Millions In Intelligence Effort

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 01.04.2012

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McLEAN, Va. — In an anonymous industrial park, CIA analysts who jokingly call themselves the "ninja librarians" are mining the mass of informati...

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What Shalit and Gaddafi Have in Common

Maurice Chammah | Posted 12.20.2011

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Maurice Chammah

Whatever drove Shahira Amin to put Gilad Shalit on TV in his first moments of freedom and whatever compelled everyone who could stomach it to look at Gaddafi's image, those two impulses had something in common.

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