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May 2, 2011

New Yorker Writers on Osama bin Laden

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Osama bin Laden was shot in the head by U.S. forces in Pakistan, and his body has been buried at sea. President Obama announced in a televised speech late Sunday night that “justice has been done.” (Watch the speech.) Check back here for our continuing analysis of what the Al Qaeda leader’s death means for America, the President, and the world.


From the May 16, 2011, issue:

110516_2011_p154.jpgLawrence Wright on how U.S. aid has undermined our strategic relationship with Pakistan, Steve Coll on bin Laden’s use of the media to expand his influence, and David Remnick on the political context of the days preceding bin Laden’s death, plus Jon Lee Anderson on the U.S. Army counterinsurgency activities in and around Khost, Afghanistan. And in Talk of the Town, Dexter Filkins on what bin Laden meant to the Muslim world, Eliza Griswold on the value of bin Laden’s compound, and Nick Paumgarten with algorithm for the names at the 9/11 Memorial.

Analysis from the blogs:

Jon Lee Anderson: How bin Laden is like Che Guevara; bin Laden and his followers.

John Cassidy: Stop playing bin Laden’s game.

Steve Coll: The specifics of the killing.

Amy Davidson: Reading to bin Laden’s corpse; more about the killing; laughing at the dead; Obama at Ground Zero.

Blake Eskin: Changes since 9/11.

Dexter Filkins: What Pakistan knew.

Adam Gopnik: The President plays it cool.

Philip Gourevitch: Don’t release the photos.

Eliza Griswold: An anxious night in Karachi.

Hendrik Hertzberg: About Abbottabad, and Iran 1980.

Raffi Khatchadourian: Was this a case of “political assassination”?

Ryan Lizza: After bin Laden, a new foreign policy?

Peter Maass: The media’s error.

Jane Mayer: Bin Laden dead, torture debate lives on.

Susan Orlean: Watching with the world, via Twitter; hero dogs.

Evan Osnos: China’s chilly reaction.

George Packer: Better late than never.

David Remnick: Obama’s history with Osama bin Laden.

David K. Shipler: Does torture work? And is it moral?

Wendell Steavenson: The reaction in Cairo.

Jeffrey Toobin: Did bin Laden deserve a trial?

Lawrence Wright: Al Qaeda after bin Laden.

From the archives: Seymour M. Hersh, Jane Mayer, Lawrence Wright, and more on bin Laden and Al Qaeda, 2000-2010.

Plus: Quizzes, slide shows, and more

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Slide show: New Yorker covers of bin Laden and 9/11.

Cover Story: Erasing Osama.

Cartoon Desk: Robert Mankoff on bin Laden cartoons through the years.

Quiz: “Operation Geronimo” and other code names.

Book Bench: “SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper.”

Sporting Scene: Baseball and bin Laden.

The Front Row: bin Laden in preoccupied Paris.

At Ground Zero: Sunday’s celebrations, the corner of Church and WINsey, and what to do with bin Laden’s body.

Slide show: Photographs of Ground Zero during the 9/11 attacks by Joel Meyerowitz and Gilles Peress.

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Photograph of bin Laden (top) by Associated Press/Undated File Photo. Photograph of firefighter at Ground Zero by Gilles Peress/Magnum.