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Osama bin Laden reportedly dead. Share your thoughts here

By Dan Lamothe on May 1, 2011 Pakistan

We have almost no context yet, but there’s big news tonight: Osama bin Laden is reportedly dead. I’ll be blogging for a while adding context, but please share your thoughts in the comments section below. 11:35 p.m.: President Obama just reported the death of bin Laden himself in an announcement at the White House. As you’d expect, he started by recalling the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa. 11:37 p.m.: Obama says he told CIA director Leon Panetta to make killing or capturing bin Laden his top priority. The White…

OMG! OMG! Thousands of Marines going to Costa Rica! Oh… wait… nevermind

By Dan Lamothe on July 13, 2010 Rumors

In a blockbuster exclusive, the Global Post reported on one of its blogs yesterday that 7,000 U.S. Marines were on the way to Costa Rica ready for land-based operations. The piece implies that Marines could take an active role in fighting drug trafficking. It’s a sensational story — if only it were true. Marine officials say that, no, they do not have 7,000 Marines on the way to Costa Rica. That’s hardly a surprise, considering the Corps had less than 10,000 Marines in Afghanistan as recently as last year, but it’s worth setting the record straight. What the Corps does…

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