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    1. When Obama team weighed the Bin Laden intel, they considered dropping a huge bomb to destroy any tunnels underneath his compound. Dissuaded by the prospect of mass civilian casualties in the neighborhood + the inability to verify he was there. nyti.ms/3Y1VBRe @Charles_Lister/1839703145494003925
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    This is an excerpt from my book Power Wars, which has a lengthy account of the nat-sec legal deliberations behind the SEAL Team 6 raid. The previous tweet is to a NYT article derived from it, but this is more fulsome and resonates with what may be coming re the Israeli strike:
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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