The New York Times looked empty after a Pakistan printer censored out a story on Pakistan and bin Laden

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The New York Times looked empty after a Pakistan printer censored out a story on Pakistan and bin Laden
(Image credit: Carlotta Gall / Twitter)

An article in The New York Times Magazine this weekend from Carlotta Gall lays out the case that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence knew of and hid Osama bin Laden in the country for years. But readers of the Times' international edition in Pakistan didn't see the story in print. There, a local printer left an empty space where the story was slated to run.

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.