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Manhunt, May 2012
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The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Crown
May 2012
On Sale: May 1, 2012
384 pages ISBN: 0307955575 EAN: 9780307955579 Kindle: B0064C3U64 Hardcover / e-Book
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The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's
most wanted man. It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in
the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin
Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in
Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America. The book
became a New York Times bestseller and the essential
portrait of the most formidable terrorist enterprise of our
time. Now, in Manhunt, Bergen picks up the thread with this
taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of bin
Laden. Here are riveting new details of bin Laden’s flight after
the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where
American forces came startlingly close to capturing him, and
of the fugitive leader’s attempts to find a secure hiding
place. As the only journalist to gain access to bin Laden’s
Abbottabad compound before the Pakistani government
demolished it, Bergen paints a vivid picture of bin Laden’s
grim, Spartan life in hiding and his struggle to maintain
control of al-Qaeda even as American drones systematically
picked off his key lieutenants. Half a world away, CIA analysts haunted by the intelligence
failures that led to 9/11 and the WMD fiasco pored over the
tiniest of clues before homing in on the man they called
"the Kuwaiti"--who led them to a peculiar building with
twelve-foot-high walls and security cameras less than a mile
from a Pakistani military academy. This was the courier who
would unwittingly steer them to bin Laden, now a prisoner of
his own making but still plotting to devastate the United
States. Bergen takes us inside the Situation Room, where President
Obama considers the COAs (courses of action) presented by
his war council and receives conflicting advice from his top
advisors before deciding to risk the raid that would change
history--and then inside the Joint Special Operations
Command, whose "secret warriors," the SEALs, would execute
Operation Neptune Spear. From the moment two Black Hawks
take off from Afghanistan until bin Laden utters his last
words, Manhunt reads like a thriller. Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to
White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence,
and the military, this is the definitive account of ten
years in pursuit of bin Laden and of the twilight of al-Qaeda.
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