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Want to thank the SEALs? Head to Warner’s website

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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., has a partial solution for those who want to thank the highly secretive Navy SEALs who carried out the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden this week. Warner has added a feature to his Senate homepage for people to leave their comments for the Virginia Beach-based squad. As of about 6 p.m., there were already more than 30 posted. Read More

The End of Osama bin Laden

Check out more of Nate Beeler's cartoons here. Read More

Levin questions Pakistani knowlege of bin Laden compound

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Monday the he hopes the Pakistani government grills its military and intelligence officers about their knowledge of Osama bin Laden's million-dollar compound. In a critical statement given to reporters Monday morning, Levin questioned whether Pakistani officials may have known bin Laden was hiding not far from the country's military hub. Read More

What does bin Laden's death tell us about the Iraq & Afghanistan wars?

One of the criticisms of the Iraq War was that it took resources away from our effort to hunt and eliminate those terrorists who caused 9/11 and would try to strike us again. I was one of the people who made that criticism, and the fact that it took us nearly a decade to get bin Laden seems to confirm that. But I wonder if any evidence will come out that the Iraq War helped us get intelligence that led us to him. Read More

New bin Ladens will keep popping up, expert warns

“Osama bin Laden has gone to the great bordello in the sky that awaits every good jihadi,” writes Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch and author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades),” in “Osama Gets His Virgins,” published in Human Events: Read More
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