Here is the inside story from The New York Times about how our intelligence services tracked down bin Laden and how our military took him out. President Obama deserves credit for continuing the effort begun under the Bush Administration, and I am glad he chose the more difficult and dangerous option of using special forces to make the raid. I hope everyone notes also when reading the story that the intelligence was derived in part from 'enhanced interrogations' of terrorists held in secret CIA prisons. Despite what candidate Obama and his allies thought and said during the campaign, this is just more proof that there is no 'clean' way to fight vicious, barbarous terrorists like bin Laden and his ilk. Perhaps President Obama is getting the message.

Christopher Hitchens has it right in this piece when he points out that Abbottabad is a town that is owned, lock, stock and barrel by the Pakistani Army. The Pakistanis, like all our other allies in the region, are playing a double game with us.