How we got Osama

Ann Althouse, law professor and blogger:
"It began with a disclosure from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), who broke like a dam under the pressure of harsh interrogation techniques that included waterboarding. He loosed a torrent of information—including eventually the nickname of a trusted courier of bin Laden."  Writes former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.Former CIA Director Michael Hayden

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The ghosts who killed a ghost

They found him here.
Marc Ambinder, the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic, describes the top-secret outfit that put two bullets through the head of Osama bin Laden.
Were it not for this high-value target, it might have been a routine mission for the specially trained and highly mythologized SEAL Team Six, officially called the Naval Special

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Lest we forget: build a bomb in your mom's kitchen

One of the bad guys.
Saifullah Paracha, a successful businessman and for years a New York travel agent, appears to be the oldest of the 172 prisoners still held at the Guantánamo Bay prison. His dossier is among the most chilling. In the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, Paracha, 63, was one of a small circle of Al Qaeda operatives who explored ways to follow up on the hijackings with new

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