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Obama’s bin Laden remarks: full text

Salon Staff
Complete transcript of Sunday night's presidential address
FILE - In this 1998 file photo, Ayman al-Zawahri, left, holds a press conference with Osama bin Laden in Khost, Afghanistan and made available Friday March 19, 2004. A person familiar with developments said Sunday, May 1, 2011 that bin Laden is dead and the U.S. has the body. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan) (AP)

The many deaths of Osama bin Laden

Justin Elliott
A look back at the years of false reports that preceded Sunday night's announcement of the real thing
President Barack Obama. Right: A television image released by Qatar's Al-Jazeera television broadcast on Friday Oct. 5, 2001, said to show the most recent image of Osama bin Laden, left, handling a Kalshnikov rifle at an undisclosed location.

Is this what closure feels like?

Joan Walsh
President Obama vanquished the terrorist who murdered innocent Americans in 2001. Can we have our country back now?

Royal wedding proves media’s top-down ways

David Sirota
Americans don't care about William and Kate -- but the press won't let that put a damper on their constant coverage
In a March 23, 2011 photo U.S. General David Petraeus, Commander of NATO International Security Assistance Force and US Forces Afghanistan, addresses Royal United Service Institute members on 'The Mission in Afghnistan' in London. President Barack Obama is likely to name seasoned diplomat Ryan Crocker as the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, reuniting Petraeus and Crocker who are credited with rescuing the American mission in Iraq. (AP Photo/Sang Tan) (Sang Tan)

A more militarized CIA for a more militarized America

Glenn Greenwald
The tradition of civilian control over the agency is an obsolete relic of the past
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Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA

Anne Gearan, Kimberly Dozier
The president is expected to announce a shuffle in top security positions this week
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Don’t believe the Obama big spender hype

Andrew Leonard
The GOP just can't handle the truth: Tax cuts, war and the financial crisis created our huge deficits
An Afghan policemen takes a look at the opening of tunnel at the main prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan which prisoners escaped through on Monday, April 25, 2011. Taliban insurgents dug a more than 1,050-foot (320-meter) tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were Taliban fighters, officials and the insurgents said Monday. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) (AP)

Afghan forces recapture 65 from Kandahar jailbreak

Heidi Vogt, Mirwais Khan
Hundreds still missing after elaborate Taliban escape plot succeeded yesterday morning
Haley Barbour

Haley Barbour’s neo-Southern strategy fails

Joan Walsh
Maybe America isn't ready for a president who claims Mississippi racism wasn't "that bad"
Threatened and fallen dictator friends of the United States. Clockwise from upper left: Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, Bahrain's Hamad bin Isa Khalifa, Tunisia's Ben Ali and Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh

Washington in a bind as local despots fall

Alfred McCoy, Brett Reilly
An empire built on autocrats, aristocrats, and uniformed thugs begins to totter
Afghan policemen stand in front of gate of the main prison in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, April 25, 2011. Taliban insurgents dug a more than 1,050-foot (320-meter) tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were Taliban fighters, officials and the insurgents said Monday. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) (AP)

How did 500 inmates escape an Afghan prison?

Peter Finocchiaro
The elaborate plot freed more than 100 Taliban commanders. How'd they do it?
Leak could strain ties between CIA and Pakistani intelligence

Leak shows U.S. distrust of Pakistan spy agency

Associated Press
American authorities list Pakistan's main intelligence organization as a terrorist group, according to Gitmo leak
An Afghan solider, center, stands guard outside of the main prison in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, April 25, 2011. Taliban insurgents dug a more than 1,050-foot (320-meter) tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were Taliban fighters, officials and the insurgents said Monday. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) (AP)

Taliban tunnels more than 480 out of Afghan prison

Heidi Vogt, Mirwais Khan
Prisoners escape through 1,000-foot underground passage
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Newly leaked documents show the ongoing travesty of Guantanamo

Glenn Greenwald
A massive WikiLeaks disclosure sheds new light on the lack of credible evidence against detainees
Chris Hondros in Sierra Leone, 2001

Chris Hondros, RIP: How my best friend died in a combat zone

Greg Campbell
A week before he was killed, Chris and I were in Libya together. He had asked me to join him. Of course I went
Holding posters of their leader, supporters of Moammar Gadhafi chant slogans following a NATO airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, early Saturday, April 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) (AP)

Airstrikes hit near Gadhafi’s residential compound

Karin Laub
NATO airstrike slams secret bunker in Tripoli
President Barack Obama meets with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (Associated Press)

Is the world too big to fail?

Noam Chomsky
As its global dominance wanes, America battles democracy, both at home and abroad
A stranded foreign refugee reacts after being informed that his name is not on the passengers list as a ship evacuating wounded Libyans and refugees fleeing conflict zone is scheduled to leave the port of Misrata, Libya Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Inside the besieged city of Misrata, spent rockets protrude from the pavement of a parking lot, unarmed teenagers prepare plastic crates of Molotov cocktails, and fighters at roadblocks sit inside empty shipping containers outfitted with furniture, carpets and generator-powered TVs and watch Al-Jazeera reports of their war with Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) (AP)

Libyan rebels claim taking post on Tunisian border

Ben Hubbard, Karin Laub
Opposition leaders say it could open a channel for anti-Gadhafi fighters to come into Libya

Oscar-nominated photojournalist killed in Libya

Associated Press
Tim Hetherington, director of acclaimed documentary "Restrepo," killed during heavy fighting in Misrata
FILE - In this July 15, 2009 file photo released by Department of Defense, “Three Cups of Tea” co-author Greg Mortenson shows the locations of future village schools to U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the opening of Pushghar Village Girls School 60 miles north of Kabul in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. Montana’s attorney general on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 told The Associated Press that he has launched an inquiry into the charity run by Mortenson, following investigations by “60 Minutes” and author Jon Krakauer into inaccuracies in the book. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley) (AP)

Montana investigates “Three Cups of Tea” charity

Matt Volz
Montana attorney general opens inquiry into possible malfeasance at Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute
FILE - On this April 6, 2011, file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks at an Americans for Prosperity "Cut Spending Now," rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama has launched his re-election bid in a low-key manner, but the Republican Party’s search for a challenger seems stranger by the day. In Iowa at least, there’s also widespread talk about Bachmann, who would be the first president elected directly from the House since James Garfield. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (AP)

Sleepwalking into the imperial dark

Tom Engelhardt
America today: What it feels like when a superpower runs off the tracks
Greg Mortenson

Why “Three Cups of Tea’s” lies don’t really matter

Laura Miller
Greg Mortenson is being attacked for his book's inaccuracies. His accusers are missing the point
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2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts

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The New York Times and Los Angeles Times each snag two prizes; Jennifer Egan wins for fiction
Afghan police men and officials stand close to a damaged police vehicle at the scene of a suicide car bomb explosion on the out skirts of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, April 14, 2011. A suicide car bomber detonated a truck of explosives covered in wood at a government compound in Musayi district, about 40 miles south of the Afghan capital, according Daud Amin, deputy police chief in Kabul. Six members of the Afghan national security forces were injured, he said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Suicide bomber kills nine soldiers at Afghan base

Rahim Faiez
5 NATO troops, 4 Afghan soldiers dead after attack
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