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Tag Archives: Osama Bin Laden
Navy SEAL Involved in bin Laden Killing Finds Support in Washington
By Aaron Glantz, Center for Investigative Reporting The Navy SEAL who says he killed Osama bin Laden was on Capitol Hill attending a series of private conversations Tuesday with congressional leaders. The meetings came a day after a story in … Continue reading
Navy Seal Who Killed Osama bin Laden Unemployed, Waiting For Disability Benefits
By Aaron Glantz, Center for Investigative Reporting The Navy SEAL who says he killed Osama bin Laden is unemployed and waiting for disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. In an exclusive story for Esquire by Phil Bronstein of … Continue reading
'Zero Dark Thirty' Protesters Say It Glorifies Torture
Osama bin Laden may be dead, but the controversy over his pursuit has never been more alive. Protests are springing up against the film "Zero Dark Thirty," which opened in 25 cities on Friday, including Emeryville. Demonstrators outside a theater … Continue reading
Bay Area and World Newspaper Headlines Announcing bin Laden's Death
The Bay Citizen has put up yesterday's front pages of seven Bay Area newspapers. Winner of the most editorialized headline contest: The Examiner's "The butcher of 9/11 is DEAD." The Sacramento Bee site took this aggregation idea one step further … Continue reading
Reactions to bin Laden Death Abound; Interview With Chris Hedges on Americans' "Triumphalism"
For a true eye-of-the-beholder experience, check out these two headlines today from the Chronicle and the Mercury News: For Sept. 11 victims' families, quiet relief (Chronicle) Bay Area families of war dead, 9/11 victims unsettled by bin Laden's death (Mercury … Continue reading
Audio: Fremont's Afghans React to Osama Bin Laden's Death
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KQED's Shuka Kalantari today visited Fremont's "Little Kabul" district to get a feel for how this community of Afghani refugees, many of whom emigrated after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, is reacting to the death of Osama Bin Laden at … Continue reading
U.S. Official Says Bin Laden Went Down Firing
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From AP: WASHINGTON – A U.S. official says Osama bin Laden went down firing at the Navy SEALs who stormed his compound. An official familiar with the operation says bin Laden was hit by a barrage of carefully aimed return … Continue reading
Archive of Initial Tweets From Pakistani Citizen About the Bin Laden Raid
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Shohaib Athar is, in his own words, "the guy who live-blogged the Osama raid without knowing it." A computer programmer whom The Associated Press reports is 33-years-old and lives in Abbottabad, Pakisan, Athar tweeted throughout the night about what he … Continue reading
