Outside the Beltway

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Marc Thiessen claims Khalid Sheikh Mohammad mocked the CIA interrogators who waterboarded him.

No, Ron Paul is not a viable candidate for president.

If former President George W. Bush has any bitterness that Osama bin Laden was finally killed under his successor, he’s not showing it.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who will enter the Presidential race tomorrow, says he wouldn’t have tried to have Osama bin Laden killed.

I’ve begun to wonder about the future of U. S. security policy. This isn’t a serious analytical post; it’s just what I call “musing”—committing disorganized thoughts to writing.

Did a deal between the U.S. and Pakistan during the infancy of the war against al Qaeda play a role in the raid against Osama bin Laden?

Pakistan is trying to explain how the world’s most wanted man was able to hide in plain sight for six years, and failing badly.

One U.S. Senator wants to bring elements of the TSA’s security theater to America’s rail system.

In a move sure to satisfy Deathers as much as a contemporaneous newspaper story satisfied Birthers, al Qaeda has released a statement confirming that Osama bin Laden is dead.

The “SERENITY COW” Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

There has been some buzz on the national security backchannels that a heretofore secret “stealth” helicopter was used in the SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout.

The debate over “enhanced interrogations” has been renewed by the bin Laden mission, but whether it “worked” or not isn’t the question.

The question of how the world’s most wanted man could’ve hidden in plain sight in Pakistan continues to be asked.

The myth that the U.S. armed and trained Osama bin Laden in the early 80’s is rearing its ugly head again.

Americans are rallying around the President in the wake of the mission against bin Laden, but it’s likely to be short-lived.

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.

And when did it know it?

Bin Laden spent the last half-decade in a compound where his only contact with the outside world was a few couriers.

How exactly was the most wanted man in the world able to hide in this house without anyone in Pakistan knowing about it?

A Pakistani man named Sohaib Athar unwittingly became part of history in the early hours of Sunday morning when he started telling twitter about some odd events in Abbotabad, Pakistan

I don’t feel the jubilation that came with Saddam Hussein’s capture in December 2003. Sadly, I know better this time.

Breaking News.

The law of war is not fully clear when applied to modern conflicts.

The Federal government is funding a Pakistan version of Sesame Street for $20 million.

The only people responsible for the murders in Afghanistan are the people who committed them, but the demagogues like Terry Jones deserve condemnation as well.

The groups we supported were defeated by the Taliban in the civil war that followed Soviet withdrawal. The Taliban and Usama bin Laden were supported by the separate “Sayyaf” group of Mujahideen supported by Saudi Arabia and Deobandi fanatics in Pakistan.