Mar 16, 2021 manhunt the tenyear search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad book. The tenyear search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad, by journalist peter bergen, the author of four books on al qaeda who produced bin laden s first television interview, for cnn in 1997. The operation that led to the killing of al qaeda leader osama bin laden took shape after detainees identifie. No one cared about osama bin laden when i started writing it, so i wrote it as a travelogue because i assumed that that was the only way to get people interested in the subject. 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 alqaeda. Search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad is peter bergen s fourth book. Bergen, tells the story of the planning, execution, and aftermath of the attacks. The tenyear search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad, is scheduled for publication tuesday, the first anniversary of bin ladens death. Peter bergen will write the definitive book on the hunt for bin laden, his publisher said on tuesday. May 01, 2012 the decadelong search for bin laden is detailed in a new book by cnn national security analyst peter bergen, one of the first americans to ever interview the alqaida leader. The ten year search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad the washington post may 4, 2012. The inside story of the hunt for bin laden 20 imdb. Peter bergen on manhunt for osama bin laden mpr news.
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His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a. After 911 you explained the worldview of osama bin laden to others in holy war inc. Bergens latest, and fourth, book about bin laden and al qaeda. The search for bin laden explores the cias behindthescenes investigation of osama bin laden from the early 1990s to his death in 2011. The tenyear search for bin laden served as the basis for this documentary, produced that broadcast. The book became a new york times bestseller and the essential portrait of the most formidable terrorist enterprise of our time. The book meticulously traces the most intensive and expansive manhunt of all time for osama bin laden culminating in his execution on 2. The search for osama bin laden the aspen institute. The best books on osama bin laden five books expert. In the end, obama gave the green light for the raid believing it to be no better than a. The decadelong search for bin laden is detailed in a new book by cnn national security analyst peter bergen, one of the first americans to ever interview the alqaida leader. The search for bin laden is a 20 documentary film directed by greg barker that explores the central intelligence agencys investigation of osama bin laden, starting from 1995 until his death in 2011. Apr 30, 20 manhunt may not have the thrills and chills of a hollywood feature film about the raid on bin laden s compound, but youll come away from a viewing of the film knowing that there is much more to.
May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the worlds most wanted terrorist, osama bin laden. Peter bergens thoughtful, well written and well sourced book is one of the best. Peter bergens manhunt is by far the best book that i have read on the hunt for osama bin laden. Osama bin ladens abbottabad compound, killing the alqaeda leader nearly 10 years after the september 11 attacks. The documentary features narratives by many of the cia analysts and operatives who worked over a decade to understand and track bin laden, and includes archival film footage from across washington, d. Jan 20, 20 filled with testimony and recollections from actual c. Now, in manhunt, bergen picks up the thread with this taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of bin laden. Manhunt for osama bin laden ends with alqaida leaders death. Shortly after coming into office, president obama urged cia chief leon panetta to redouble the efforts to find osama bin laden. The operation was a 40minute raid by members of the united states special operations forces and navy seals on his safe house 23 in bilal town, abbottabad, pakistan. Bergen gives a thorough account of the sequence of events that led to the finding and death of osama bin laden. Bergen came away from that meeting struck by bin ladens raw hatred for the united states.
Bergen is the only journalist to gain access to bin ladens abbottabad compound before it was razed by the pakistani. Bergen is highly qualified to write the definitive account of the hunt for and assassination of osama bin laden having actually interviewed him for cnn in. The manhunt to capture osama bin laden new hampshire. Jul 31, 2012 with the release of peter bergens manhunt.
Apr 30, 20 now an hbo documentary in manhunt, peter bergen delivers a taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of osama bin laden. May 01, 20 two years after the hunt for osama bin laden came to an end, a new hbo documentary called manhunt traces the origins of that search to far earlier than the 911 attacks, and profiles a group of. May 03, 2011 less than 48 hours after osama bin laden s death, the book deals have begun. It was only a week before 911 that peter bergen turned in the manuscript of holy war, inc. Peter bergens new book manhunt documents that search and the extraordinary. Bergen is highly qualified to write the definitive account of the hunt for and assassination of osama bin laden having actually interviewed him for cnn in 1997 when he was a jihadist fighting the soviet union occupation of afghanistan. Now an hbo documentary in manhunt, peter bergen delivers a taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of osama bin laden.
The book became a new york times bestseller and the essential portrait of the most. Sude and the other women interviewed in manhunt members of a central intelligence agency team that identified the threat posed by osama bin laden long before the sept. Jun 15, 2012 a good chunk of manhunt describes the cias maddening uncertainty about whether bin laden was really inside. Bergen crown bergens pakistani sources gave him new insight into bin laden s home life. According to albahri, bin laden is hiding in the regions in afghanistan or along the border with pakistan. The tenyear search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad, on which the film is based, will be released in paperback april 30 by broadway paperbacks, a division of random house. Bergen was a cnn reporter who personally met bin laden for an. The tenyear search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad is the first indepth study of how the cia found the emir of al qaeda and how the seals brought justice to him. The tenyear search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad kindle edition by bergen, peter l download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Please give us a precis of what you told readers in that book. Afghanistan, osama bin laden wrote, a decade has gone in vagrancy and. The tenyear search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad.
The former head of the cia on managing the hunt for 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 leaders attempts to find a secure hiding place. May 04, 2012 that manhunt is the subject of peter l. It features accounts from cia analysts and operatives who spent more than a decade gathering intelligence and tracking bin laden.
The tenyear search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad ebook written by peter l. The story at the core of this curiously directed and somewhat misleadingly titled documentary an. The tenyear search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad, on which the film is based, will be released in paperback april. In manhunt, peter bergen delivers a taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of osama bin laden. The impact of the interview at the time was pretty muted, bergen recalls in the film. Along the way you are introduced to a set of characters from the confident analysts at the cia to the more reserved directors to cocky operators and case officers in the field. This session will feature an excerpted screening of the acclaimed hbo documentary, manhunt, based on the book of the same name by. May 01, 2012 an exciting insider account of the vast, secretive effort to track and kill the alqaeda leader. A year after the commando raid that killed osama bin laden in abbottabad, pakistan, we have a terrific new book on the decadelong search for highvalue target no. The tenyear search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad terrorism by peter bergen. An espionage tale from inside the cias long conflict against al qaeda, as revealed by the remarkable women and men whose secret war against osama bin laden started nearly a decade before most of us even knew his name.
One of the few westerners to interview osama bin laden, peter bergen, a cnn national security analyst, discussed his recent book, manhunt. Al qaeda expert and cnn national security analyst peter bergen paints a multidimensional picture of the hunt for osama bin laden over the past decade, including the operation that killed him. The gripping account of the decadelong hunt for the worlds most wanted man. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read manhunt. The story of the group of female analysts labelled the sisterhood, who picked up on bin laden s financing of terrorism in the early 1990s, serves as a thread through the 100minute documentary. Osama bin laden was killed after being shot in the head and chest, during operation neptunes spear, with geronimo as the code word for bin laden s capture or death. Manhunt the ten year search for bin laden from 911 to abbottabad is peter bergens fourth book on the subject of osama bin laden and alqaeda.
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