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Obama Approval Jumps to 56%
 Obama Approval Jumps to 56% 
May 3, 2011 4:02 PM CDT

Obama Approval Jumps to 56%

But Americans still unconvinced on the economy

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s approval rating took a pretty significant jump overnight after the killing of Osama bin Laden, with 56% now saying they approve of the job he’s doing overall, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted last night. That’s a 9-point increase from Obama’s April...

Osama’s Pad Didn’t Follow His ‘Hiding Places’ Rules

For one, it appears to have had few escape routes

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad abode appears to have broken the basic rules of hiding laid out in an al-Qaeda training manual. The Smoking Gun looked over the “Military Studies in the Jihad Against Tyrants” text that was seized from another terrorist’s home in England, and found a...

White House: Bin Laden Had No Gun or Human Shield

Jay Carney clarifies details from first account

(Newser) - The White House clarified details today of the raid on Osama bin Laden, with spokesman Jay Carney saying that bin Laden was not armed and did not use his wife as a human shield. He chalked up the discrepancies to the government's "great haste" in getting information out....

Remember This Osama Hunter? He Wasn't That Far Off

Gary Faulkner was about 270 miles away on his one-man hunt

(Newser) - Gary Faulkner is happy he won't have to make a return trip to Pakistan to look for Osama bin Laden, the Greeley Tribune of Colorado reports. Faulkner, you'll recall, is the guy who flew to Pakistan on his own last year with the goal of finding and capturing...

Rush Limbaugh: Obama Owes Us an Osama Apology

It's Bush's policies that led us to bin Laden, says radio host

(Newser) - The Obama administration shouldn’t be patting itself on the back for finding Osama bin Laden—it should be apologizing, says Rush Limbaugh. And so should the entire “American Left” for "taking every opportunity to undermine" the Bush-era policies that ultimately led to bin Laden's death. “...

Osama bin Laden Made Real Progress on His Real Goal of Bankrupting the US: Ezra Klein
 Bin Laden’s Real Goal: 
 Bankrupt US 
Ezra Klein
May 3, 2011 1:15 PM CDT

Bin Laden’s Real Goal: Bankrupt US

He didn't succeed, but he did some serious damage: Ezra Klein

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden wasn't foolish enough to think he could defeat the US militarily. His real goal, one that America never quite grasped, was to bring down the US by bankrupting it, writes Ezra Klein in the Washington Post . Remember, he had helped bring that fate upon the Soviet...

Between Harry Potter and Osama, ‘Eerie’ Connections

The links could boost Potter's box office, writes Gregg Kilday

(Newser) - Now that Osama bin Laden has been killed, the inevitable question: When will the first movie about his death come out? In the Hollywood Reporter , Gregg Kilday makes the case that it might be as soon as July 15 ... when the final Harry Potter installment hits theaters. There have been...

David Brooks: Osama Bin Laden Just a Man
 Bin Laden Was Just a Man 
David Brooks
May 3, 2011 12:45 PM CDT

Bin Laden Was Just a Man

We could use an inexplicably 'good' version of him, writes David Brooks

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden was a shy boy who loved his parents. His father died at age 9. He lived in suburbia, attended an elite school, was religiously devout, and liked Bonanza and the evening news. Why all these personal facts? “Because we have a tendency to see history as...

When Did ‘USA!’ Chant Start?

Probably not when you thought it did

(Newser) - Throngs gathered outside the White House on Sunday night to chant, "USA! USA!" after news of Osama bin Laden's death broke. When did that patriotic tradition get started? In Slate 's Explainer column, Brian Palmer notes that the popular story—that it began during the 1980...

Who Snagged the $27M Reward for bin Laden?

Probably no one, but we may never know

(Newser) - Until Sunday, Osama bin Laden topped the FBI's most-wanted list—and there was a sizable reward offered for information leading to his capture. The State Department offered $25 million, with two air travel associations adding an additional $1 million each. So did anyone collect? Annie Lowrey explains on Slate...

Pakistan: We Have Osama’s Wife, Kids in Custody

They were left behind after a helicopter had mechanical issues

(Newser) - One of Osama bin Laden's wives and as many as eight children are in Pakistani custody—including a 12- or 13-year-old daughter who reportedly saw Navy SEALs shoot her father and confirmed it was in fact bin Laden who had been killed. A senior Pakistani intelligence official says the...

Osama Raid Nets Data Mother Lode

Computers, thumb drives, disks, and more seized

(Newser) - The raid on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound may turn out to be an intelligence triumph as well as a military one: The Navy SEALs who took Osama down also took his computers with them, seizing drives, disks, PCs, thumb drives, and other electronic equipment. An official tells Politico...

Bullet Blew bin Laden’s Skull Apart

Al-Qaeda leader had lived in Abbottabad compound for 5 to 6 years

(Newser) - The scene is shaping up to be a gruesome one: As reported earlier, Osama bin Laden was shot above his left eye, but a US official adds that the bullet blew away part of his skull, and that a second bullet hit him in the chest, reports CBS News . The...

Colbert Finally Throws ‘We Got bin Laden’ Party

Of course, the circa 2002 balloons and cake were a little dusty...

(Newser) - "We got him!" crowed Stephen Colbert last night as he led his audience in a "USA! USA!" chant. "I cannot put this any plainer, but golly gee willikers! By which I mean suck my giant American balls, al-Qaeda," he said. "I am as...

A Prisoner, a Call, a Courier: How They Found bin Laden

Intel from detainees, tapped phones led to courier

(Newser) - It wasn’t long after 9/11 when a detainee in one of the CIA’s secret prisons first mentioned the name Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. That name—plus years of intelligence work—would eventually lead America to Osama bin Laden, the AP reports. The first break came in 2004, when an...

Raid Also Killed Osama Son, Heir Apparent

'Future al-Qaeda leader' Hamza bin Laden killed

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden's youngest son and presumed heir won't be going into the family business. US officials say Hamza bin Laden was killed along with his father in the raid on the Abbotabad compound, reports the Telegraph . Hamza, believed to have been around 20 years old, was the...

Zardari: Pakistan ‘Did Its Part’ in bin Laden Sting

Hit was result of a decade of cooperation, he writes in op-ed

(Newser) - As suspicions mount against Pakistan in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, President Asif Ali Zardari insists his country did its part. "The events of Sunday were not a joint operation," he acknowledges in a Washington Post op-ed, but "a decade of cooperation and partnership...

Stewart: Screw Perspective, This Is Great

'The Daily Show' host is nothing but gleeful over bin Laden's death

(Newser) - Jon Stewart is positively gleeful over the death of Osama bin Laden, and he's not at all interested in "perspective." All he wants are details, details, details. Of course, the rest of the media are insistent on giving us perspective, and Stewart ran a montage of all...

Here Come the Wacky Conspiracy Theories

Frozen, alive, or zombie-fied?

(Newser) - The fish had barely begun to nibble on Osama bin Laden before wild conspiracy theories about his demise—or lack of—began to circulate. The US government is considering releasing photos and video of the dead al-Qaeda kingpin, but in the meantime, conspiracy theorists are having a field day:
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Is bin Laden’s Death Pope’s 2nd Miracle?

John Paul II should get credit for the killing, Peruvian leader says

(Newser) - Pope John Paul II was beatified the same day special forces took out Osama bin Laden, and the president of Peru thinks it's no coincidence. Alan Garcia says the killing of bin Laden is the second miracle that the late pope needs to qualify for sainthood, CNN reports. The...

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