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He is cnns national security analyst and a director of the new america foundation. On may 20, 2015, the odni released a sizeable tranche of documents recovered from the compound used to hide osama bin laden. Even bush shocked by how few resources are being dedicated to the hunt for bin laden. The book takes the reader into the heat of battleas seen through the. Mark bowdens new book, the finish, tells of the hunt for osama bin laden from the top down based on access to obama. In an adaptation from the authors new book, indepth interviews with obama and other. The hunt for bin ladenplunges the reader into americas war on terror, from the first topsecret meetings of task force dagger in tampa on the afternoon of september 11, 2001, through the liberation of kabul sixtytwo days later and the tragedies of operation anaconda. Meg greene this book describes the resurfacing of osama bin laden on a tape in october 2004. By the time i finished reading the hunt for bin laden, i was in awe of this force america had unleashed against our enemies. It is true that trump mentioned the alqaida leader in his 2000 book the america we deserve, although the mention comes in a passage apparently bemoaning the. I think he has probably been dead for quite a while. Seal team six raided an alqaeda compound in abbottabad, pakistan, in may 2011 and killed the worlds most wanted terrorist.
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