"The White House’s Bedtime Bombshell".. Fascinating~

[Cha]

I think all this intrigue in the way bin ladned met his end and the way the NYT(for one paper)had to Stop The Presses!..is riveting!

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..Like Ms. Cooper, the photographer Doug Mills was at home when he got a call, this one from the White House press office telling him about the president’s speech. As he approached the White House in his car, he noticed a large presence of Secret Service vehicles. Once inside the gate, he said, he heard from a source. Mr. Mills said: “Man, this must be big. They must have gotten Qaddafi.”

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..For David Rohde, though, gathering public reaction was far more personal. Mr. Rohde, a much-admired reporter who was held by the Taliban for seven months before escaping in 2009, watched the celebrants outside the White House on TV late Sunday and then headed to ground zero, a few blocks from his home, to see if people were gathering there too.

Finding a quickly swelling crowd, he said, he interviewed “a construction worker who collected body parts from the rubble in 2001, an American soldier set to depart for Afghanistan in a few weeks and a Pakistani college student.”

Mr. Rohde had been at ground zero on 9/11 nearly 10 years before, running for his life when the towers fell. He had gone on to report from Afghanistan and Pakistan and now — like so many other Times staffers in a wide variety of roles across the organization — he seized another chance to report the news.

>Much More<
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/opinion/08pubed.html

[Hekate]

Thank you! Riveting is the word!

[Pirate Smile]

That was very interesting. Thanks for posting.