This week’s cover, out on iPad now. Full coverage at The Daily Beast.
And on newsstands this Friday.
Reblogged from Newsweek
The war dogs wear ballistic body armour that is said to withstand damage from single and double-edged knives, as well as protective gear which shields them from shrapnel and gunfire… Wearing oxygen masks, the pooches have been trained to jump from aircraft at 25,000ft, before seeking out insurgents in hostile environments.
Ok, now that is amazing.Hero dog helped snare Osama
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Reblogged from Newsweek
We solved the mystery of the second woman in the situation room! Sort of. Like the caption released by the White House says, she’s Audrey Tomason, Director for Counterterrorism. She’s a Tufts University and Harvard Kennedy School grad, about 34 years old (unconfirmed), and she works with the National Security Council, a White House agency closely involved with the intelligence that led to bin Laden. Other than that, the Internet doesn’t seem to know much more, and the government is staying pretty mum. When we searched yesterday, there was no Wikipedia page for her. Now there is, but it’s incredibly sparse.
In a statement released to The Daily Beast by the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, the government said that it had been sharing specific intelligence with the CIA about the compound since 2009 and that Abbottabad, the northern Pakistani city when Bin Laden was found, has been “under sharp focus of intelligence agencies since 2003” because of reports of the presence of Al Qaeda fighters.
The CIA, of course, has no immediate comment.
Joe Rabito was working near Ground Zero when the first plane hit the Towers. He saw the second plane hit and rushed down to the site to help.
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We never needed to stoop to bin Laden’s standards to get bin Laden. We needed merely to follow our long-tested humane procedures.
A staffer went to Costco and came back with a mix of provisions — turkey pita wraps, cold shrimp, potato chips, soda.
What they ate in the Situation Room.
(via Josh Sternberg)
UPDATE, May 3: Hours after Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan said at a press conference that Osama bin Laden had used a woman believed to be his wife as a human shield during the raid that killed him, the White House walked back its initial claim, saying that it was unclear whether the woman was used as a human shield and saying she was not his wife. Instead, Bin Laden’s wife was injured but not killed in the raid.
(Source: shortformblog)
Reblogged from The Cheat Sheet
Ayman al-Zawahri is now the world’s new top terrorist. A doctor who was born into a rich Cairo family, he has been bin Laden’s No. 2 in al Qaeda. “U.S. intelligence agencies believe Zawahri functions as al Qaeda’s most important ideological leader, and perhaps also the main operational leader of the network’s activities,” the Council on Foreign Relations has written.
What happens now?
Photo of Obama working on his televised remarks Sunday evening, while reports that Osama bin Laden had been killed were furiously making the rounds on the Internet.
Reblogged from Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr
The faces of Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and President Barack Obama, as they ”receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden.”
(Source: Flickr / whitehouse)
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