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US demands to interview bin Laden's widows

San Jose Mercury News - David E. Sanger - ‎38 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's national security adviser demanded Sunday that Pakistan permit US investigators to interview Osama bin Laden's three widows, escalating tension in a relationship now fraught over how bin Laden ...

Obama talks about bin Laden raid

Kansas City Star - ‎41 minutes ago‎
AP Bearing white flags inscribed with the words “Holy War,” a Pakistani religious party in Quetta on Sunday decried the killing of Osama bin Laden. WASHINGTON | President Barack Obama ordered the commando raid that killed terrorist leader Osama bin ...

Obama: Bin Laden raid was 'a 55/45 situation'

CNN International - ‎3 hours ago‎
By the CNN WIre Staff Obama on raid: "Had (Osama bin Laden) not been there, then there would have been some significant consequences." Tune in to "Piers Morgan Tonight" at 9 ET Monday night for more on what the new bin Laden videos tell us and what ...

Obama alluded to that on "60 Minutes" on Sunday evening, saying, "We think that there had to be some sort of support network for bin Laden inside of Pakistan. But we don't know who or what that support network was," Obama added. "We don't know whether there might have been some people inside of government, people outside of government, and that's something that we have to investigate, and more importantly, the Pakistani government has to...
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Obama talks risks, payoffs in making bin Laden decision

AFP - ‎2 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama acknowledges he was nervous in the run-up to the secret US raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Even some advisers "voiced doubts" about the plan, he said. He thought about the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, in which two US ...

US Demands More From Pakistan in Bin Laden Inquiry

New York Times - Helene Cooper, Ismail Khan - ‎May 6, 2011‎
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 ...

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Obama Can't Depend On New Poll Numbers

New York Times (blog) - John Harwood - ‎28 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON — Politically speaking, President Obama walks taller now that American commandos, on his order, found and killed Osama bin Laden. The short answer, Obama advisers and outside analysts in both parties say, is that it makes ...

PRESIDENT ORDERS MISSILE STRIKES TO PUNISH PAKISTAN

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - Jack Lewis - ‎3 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (Magnum PI) — President Barack Obama says Osama bin Laden had a group of supporters within Pakistan helping to keep the al Qaeda leader secure for years, despite an American-led international manhunt that extended for nearly a decade with ...

Bin Laden Intelligence

Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) - Jamie Dupree - ‎3 hours ago‎
The Pentagon this weekend not only handed out some videos seized from Osama Bin Laden's hideout, but tried to give reporters more insight on what type of intelligence has been gained from last week's raid. Here is a transcript of a briefing given by a ...

United States

Bin Laden death helps Obama reposition in Virginia, but big challenges remain

Washington Post - Amy Gardner, Jon Cohen - ‎22 minutes ago‎
The targeted killing of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden boosted President Obama's prospects for reelection over several potential Republican challengers in the battleground state of Virginia, according to a Washington ...

Slow Dawn After Midnight Raid

Wall Street Journal - Zahid Hussain, Matthew Rosenberg - ‎1 hour ago‎
ISLAMABAD—Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Pakistan's military chief, was in his study in his official residence at Pakistani military headquarters in Rawalpindi in the wee hours of Monday, May 2, ...

Obama, bin Laden, and the media: Telling the story, controlling the images

Entertainment Weekly - Ken Tucker - ‎1 hour ago‎
Appearing on 60 Minutes, President Obama told Steve Kroft that the mission to kill Osama bin Laden was “a 55/45 [percent odds] situation. I mean we could not say definitively that bin Laden was there. Had he not been there, ...

New York, NY

US Raises Pressure on Pakistan in Raid's Wake

New York Times - David E. Sanger - ‎1 hour ago‎
WASHINGTON — President Obama's national security adviser demanded Sunday that Pakistan let American investigators interview Osama bin Laden's three widows, adding new pressure in a relationship now fraught over how Bin Laden could ...

Whose Foreign Policy Is It?

New York Times - Ross Douthat - ‎2 hours ago‎
For those with eyes to see, the daylight between the foreign policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama has been shrinking ever since the current president took the oath of office. But last week made it official: When the story of ...

Obama '60 Minutes' Interview On Osama Bin Laden

Huffington Post - ‎4 hours ago‎
“Justice was done," President Barack Obama said in an interview with Steve Kroft on CBS's "60 Minutes." Regarding the Osama bin Laden mission, Obama said, "As nervous as I was about this whole process, the one thing I didn't lose sleep over was the ...

United Kingdom

Watching the raid on bin Laden's compound live at the White House was 'the ...

Daily Mail - Neil Sears, Tim Shipman - ‎1 hour ago‎
The President has described the moments he and members of his security inner circle spent watching the raid of Osama bin Laden's compound as the 'longest 40 minutes of my life.' In an interview with 60 Minutes ...

Experts warn exposure of Osama bin Laden's embarrassing home video tapes could ...

Mirror.co.uk - Andrew Gregory - ‎1 hour ago‎
THE global exposure of Osama bin Laden's home video tapes could spark a violent backlash from his fanatical supporters, experts warned last night. It is feared the embarrassing clips of the al-Qaeda leader ...

Obama Rejects 'Osama Death' Critics

Sky News - ‎2 hours ago‎
Anyone who questions whether the US should have killed Osama bin Laden needs to have their "head examined", President Barack Obama has said in response to critics. A week after a secret US strike team killed bin Laden at his Pakistan hideaway, ...

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Obama's 'longest 40 minutes'

Politico - Carrie Budoff Brown - ‎4 hours ago‎
On '60 Minutes,' Obama described watching the bin Laden raid from the Situation Room. | AP photo Close By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 5/8/11 7:58 PM EDT President Obama described the daring nighttime raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistani compound as one of the ...

War of words after bin Laden take-down (Sunday talk shows)

Washington Post (blog) - T.W. Farnam, Emi Kolawole - ‎11 hours ago‎
The Sunday talk shows were dominated by talk of the killing of Osama bin Laden, with National Security Adviser Tom Donilon making the rounds on CNN, ABC, NBC and FOX. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. ...

Donilon Obama only '5050' on bin Laden's location

Politico (blog) - ‎14 hours ago‎
President Barack Obama decided to raid Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan with only "50-50" certainty the terrorist leader was there, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon said in an interview aired Sunday. "At the end of the day, the president ...

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Bin Laden death helps Obama reposition in Virginia, but big challenges remain
‎22 minutes ago‎ - Washington Post
A connect the dots mission for bin Laden intelligence analysts
‎May 6, 2011‎ - CNN
Analysis: Bin Laden death no departure for "hawkish" Obama
‎May 5, 2011‎ - Reuters
The Lede: Updates on Bin Laden's Death, May 5
‎May 5, 2011‎ - New York Times (blog)
Should Obama release the photo of Osama bin Laden as proof he is dead?
‎May 4, 2011‎ - Wall Street Journal
With bin Laden dead, what's next for war in Afghanistan?
‎May 4, 2011‎ - CNN (blog)
Nation reacts to Osama bin Laden's death
‎May 3, 2011‎ - Washington Post
Pakistan's president denies harboring bin Laden
‎May 3, 2011‎ - The Associated Press
Politics Post Bin Laden: A Changed Landscape
‎May 2, 2011‎ - ABC News (blog)
Bin Laden's Death Draws Worldwide Cheers, Relief
‎May 2, 2011‎ - Fox News

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