Updates coming ...
8:11pm PST: CNN's report: "Osama bin Laden is dead, sources say." A live feed for the president's address at CNN's homepage.
8:25pm PST: Bethany Murphy tweets: "Okay, this made me cry. Thank you George W. Bush. G-d bless you:
8:25pm PST: Bethany Murphy tweets: "Okay, this made me cry. Thank you George W. Bush. G-d bless you:
8:45pm PST: The president just spoke. It was a good speech. I'll be checking around from some analysis and will update. There's a feeling of celebration, obviously, but deliverance as well. The president closed his address with the unifying conclusion to the Pledge of Allegiance: "... one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all."
9:00pm PST: Bruce Kesler comments, at Maggie's Farm, "President Obama's Mushy Announcment That Osama Bin Laden Is Dead."
9:05pm PST: Via Blake Hounshell on Twitter, a Facebook page in Arabic, "We are all Osama Bin Laden."
9:30pm PST: Checking some progressives on Twitter, Karoli's not pleased with the response on the right.
9:37pm PST: Here's the president's address:And at New York Times, "Obituary: Osama bin Laden was the Most Wanted Face of Terrorism."10:30pm PST: Lots of stuff becoming available.
* At New York Times, "How the bin Laden Announcement Leaked Out," and check this striking image from the Times.
* At ABC News, "Osama Bin Laden Killed By Navy Seals in Firefight."
* At National Journal, "Osama’s compound already mapped on Google Maps."
* And at Los Angeles Times, "Former president George W. Bush calls bin Laden death 'momentous achievement'."
11:05pm PST: Glenn Reynolds has a roundup, and note this from Austin Bay:
Would that we had him in Fall 2001. However, time has worked against Bin Laden. He dies tarnished. A man who hides in a cave for ten years is no martyr. He quickly lost the aura of divine sanction — he was driven out of Afghanistan, and the US stayed. Moreover, the US took it’s counter-terror war into the heart of the politically dysfunctional Arab Muslim world. What’s the choice between tyrant and terrorist? Iraq provides a choice. Al Qaeda made Iraq a battleground and lost — lost to the Iraqi people and the US.