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The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Atlantic Monthly Press
October 2012
On Sale: October 16, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 0802120342
EAN: 9780802120342
Kindle: B008R070Z8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
From Mark Bowden, the preeminent chronicler of our military
and special forces, comes The Finish, a gripping
account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key
sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions
were made and on the ground where the action
unfolded.
After masterminding the attacks of
September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden managed to vanish. Over
the next ten years, as Bowden shows, America found that its
war with al Qaeda—a scattered group of individuals who were
almost impossible to track—demanded an innovative approach.
Step by step, Bowden describes the development of a new
tactical strategy to fight this war—the fusion of intel from
various agencies and on-the-ground special ops. After
thousands of special forces missions in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the right weapon to go after bin Laden had
finally evolved. By Spring 2011, intelligence pointed to a
compound in Abbottabad; it was estimated that there was a
50/50 chance that Osama was there. Bowden shows how three
strategies were mooted: a drone strike, a precision bombing,
or an assault by Navy SEALs. In the end, the President had
to make the final decision. It was time for the finish.
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