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Catching bin laden: an alternate history; plus, the judo jihadi?

Osama bin Laden in the 80s? A judo instructor says it is. What if the U.S. had captured Osama bin Laden alive, and attempted to put him on trial, instead of killing him? Some on the libertarian left...

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(Video) Bin Laden’s home movies: old guy with dyed beard watches self on TV

So … Osama bin Laden hogged the remote, dyed his beard, and spent a lot of time watching himself on TV. MSNBC reported Saturday on the videos from inside the Abbottabad compound released by the...

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(Video) Killing bin Laden: the president’s story

“60 Minutes” gets the first and only interview with President Obama about the planning and the raid that took down the world’s most wanted terrorist. (Link)

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Richard Clarke: capturing bin Laden was not a Bush administration priority

Former Clinton and Bush counterterrrorism adviser Richard Clarke As George W. Bush’s loyalists (and their friends in the Beltway media) continue to try to shoehorn Bush into the story of how the Obama...

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Thank you, John McCain

Yes, that John McCain. The Arizona Senator, who in recent years has seemed to veer so far off his “maverick” persona as to be unrecognizable (at least to the media), and who brought us Sarah Palin,...

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Obama’s Afghan drawdown: 33,000 troops by end of 2012, ‘long war’ over by 2014

President Obama addressed the nation Wednesday evening, announcing the plan to finally end the war in Afghanistan. The plan involves a more or less immediate drawdown of 10,000 troops, in two phases...

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Up for debate: could Obama ‘pull a Bush’ on debt ceiling, DREAM Act?

It’s a common meme among the “professional left” that President Obama is just like George W. Bush when it comes to economic and foreign policy. But could that meme, if true, be helpful to the...

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Nagging questions about those global ‘movie protests’

The protests are continuing to spread around the world, ostensibly over not an anti-Muslim movie, but the trailer for an anti-Muslim movie, that it’s not even clear very many people actually saw....

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FISA 702 or PATRIOT Act 215? Questions on the Guardian/Wapo surveillance scoops

The Glenn Greenwald/Guardian story about a memo leaked to Greenwald about the NSA obtaining a court order to seize Verizon phone records, was topped by a Washington Post article stating that the NSA...

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Chinese paper: Snowden took the Booz Allen job in order to leak

Greenwald pooh-poohed my, Andrew Sullivan’s and others’ queries (based on his tweets) as stupid conspiracy theories. Well, turns out they’re not… From the same South China daily that broke the news of...

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