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    Obama: ‘I could not be prouder’

    By Kara Rowland, Eli Lake and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

    With the killing of Osama bin Laden, the United States has “kept its commitment to see that justice is done,” President Obama said Monday. Published 10:52 p.m. May 1, 2011

    updated 6 hours, 13 minutes ago

    ** FILE ** Undated photo of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo, File)

    Getting bin Laden was top U.S. goal since 9/11

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been the highest counterterrorism goal since the deadly Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and on Sunday a small team of U.S. special-operations commandos achieved it. Published 1:35 a.m. May 2, 2011

    ASSOCIATED PRESS The loan of $26 million from a World Bank branch to Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal for a luxury hotel in Ghana has drawn criticism.

    Saudi prince, worth billions, gets World Bank loan to build luxury hotel

    By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times

    One of the world’s richest men and a member of the Saudi royal family has received approval for a $26 million loan from a branch of the World Bank to build a luxury hotel in Ghana, a West African nation with a developing economy but where 40 percent of the people live in poverty. Published 7:55 p.m. May 1, 2011

    ** FILE ** Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is asking the federal goverment to keep National Guard units patrolling the border longer than their scheduled time.

    Brewer leads charge against feds

    By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

    Before there was Scott Walker, Rick Scott, Nathan Deal or Nikki Haley, there was Arizona’s Jan Brewer — the original Republican protest governor, going toe-to-toe with the Obama administration over immigration, fighting the White House in the courtroom and becoming an early symbol of states’ frustration with the White House. Published 9:53 p.m. May 1, 2011

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    Inside the Beltway

    By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

    The official “cultural barometer” keepers at CafePress say that more than 1,000 Osama bin Laden-themed products have been created by online entrepreneurs in the last 24 hours marking the death of the terrorist leader. Published 8:22 p.m. May 2, 2011

    National
    ASSOCIATED PRESS Osama bin Laden, seen at an undisclosed Afghan location in 1998, was tracked not to a cave but to a million-dollar maximum-security mansion where he died not in a blaze of glory but hiding behind a woman.

    Road to bin Laden’s killing marked by loss of top aides

    By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

    Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, known to most as Osama bin Laden, was the product of privilege; the 17th of 52 children of a Saudi businessman who made billions in the construction industry and lived a lavish lifestyle. It was the trappings of his well-appointed life that may have led to his ignoble death Sunday in Abbottabad, Pakistan — in a million-dollar three-story mansion, not a cave. Published 7:44 p.m. May 2, 2011

    World
    Associated Press Afghan President Hamid Karzai, addressing a gathering at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday lauded Osama bin Laden's death as a serious blow to terrorism.

    Most hail terrorist’s death; a few howl

    By Ben Birnbaum - The Washington Times

    Most foreign leaders Monday praised the United States for killing Osama bin Laden, but followers of the world’s most wanted terrorist howled for revenge. Published 6:30 p.m. May 2, 2011

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    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton makes a statement on Monday, May 2, 2011, at the State Department in Washington regarding the death of Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    Clinton: Bin Laden’s death doesn’t end ‘syndicate of terror’

    By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

    updated 8 hours, 13 minutes ago

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is not the end of the war on terrorism and warned the network’s members that the United States would be relentless in its pursuit of them. Published 10:04 a.m. May 2, 2011

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