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No Easy Day -- Navy Seal's book on bin Laden raid out today
After weeks of hype and recrimination, the public gets a look today at a Navy Seal's account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden -- a book that already is selling better than "Fifty Shades of Grey." The author of "No Easy Day," is identified on...
Tags: Outback Steakhouse Incorporated, The Pentagon, Osama bin Laden, Authors, The New York Times
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Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work
Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden publicly commanded his foot-soldiers to ramp up the violence against American civilians. But five weeks before his death, he privately instructed his lieutenants to refrain from killing any civilians....
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Caleb Carr, Terrorism, Al-Qaeda, Science
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Time to tell Pakistan: Game over
The search for Osama bin Laden lasted more than 10 years, through three U.S. presidencies. Under President Bill Clinton in the mid-1990s, our intelligence agencies began their relentless pursuit of bin Laden. The death of almost 3,000 innocent men,...Tags: Foreign Aid, Crisis, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Al-Qaeda
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Editorial: The NSA leaks and national security
After the leaks that revealed the surprising ways in which the National Security Agency is monitoring the communications of Americans as well as people abroad, President Barack Obama addressed the ensuing uproar: "I welcome this debate and I think it's...
Tags: Pakistan, Jarmes R. Clapper, Central Intelligence Agency, The Wall Street Journal, George W. Bush
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In Pakistan, we see the law of unintended consequences
After two women trying to inoculate Pakistani children against polio were shot this week, some news accounts were quick to place blame: "Anti-polio workers started being attacked after a Pakistani doctor, Shakeel Afridi, ran a fake polio campaign in the...
Tags: Pakistan, Health Organizations, The New York Times, Punishment, Preventative Medicine
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'Zero Dark Thirty' report reveals Hollywood-Washington emails
WASHINGTON — When screenwriter Mark Boal went seeking Pentagon and CIA help on last year's hit movie "Zero Dark Thirty," he wooed glamour-starved official Washington with the classic Hollywood pitch: Let's do lunch. Boal promised "a real L.A....Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Pakistan, Leon Panetta, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense
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US intelligence embraces debate in security issues
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months leading up to the killing of Osama bin Laden, veteran intelligence analyst Robert Cardillo was given the nickname "Debbie Downer." With each new tidbit of information that tracked bin Laden to a high-walled compound...
Tags: White House, Central Intelligence Agency, FBI, Satellite Technology, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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Tribunal de EEUU ratifica que fotos de cadáver de Bin Laden no sean públicas
El tribunal de apelaciones del Distrito de Columbia ratificó hoy que las fotos del cadáver de Bin Laden tras su muerte en Pakistán a manos de un operativo militar de EE.UU. deben permanecer secretas. El dictamen del tribunal compuesto por tres jueces...
Tags: Barack Obama, Al-Qaeda
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TV review: 'Manhunt' keeps Bin Laden hunt as real as possible
How many films about the search for and killing of Osama bin Laden can the market bear? The answer appears to be three — a bad one, a good one and now, a messy but provocative one. National Geographic Channel's docudrama "Seal Team Six" was...
Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Pakistan, Osama bin Laden, Central Intelligence Agency, Terrorism
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After Boston explosions, people rush to Twitter for breaking news
SAN FRANCISCO -- In an age of near instant communication, Twitter again became the world's town square as traffic to the service spiked minutes after the deadly Boston Marathon explosions. People rushed to Twitter for real-time information on fatalities...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Boston Marathon, Hudson River, Media Industry, Television
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Navy SEAL killed in training accident is identified
A Navy SEAL who died in a free-fall parachuting accident this week during training exercises in Arizona was identified as Brett David Shadle of Elizabethville, Pa. The accident happened on Thursday near the Pinal Airpark in Marana, Ariz., where military...Tags: Pakistan, Jan Brewer, Iraq, Afghanistan, Awards and Prizes
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'Zero Dark Thirty' a first draft of history ★★★★
To consider what director Kathryn Bigelow has accomplished in "Zero Dark Thirty," imagine the events depicted by the story if they'd been given the "Argo" treatment. Not to take anything away from that rousing true (-ish) story of hostages freed and...
Tags: Chris Pratt, Pakistan, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), The Hurt Locker (movie), Central Intelligence Agency
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