Peter Bergen, CNN's man on terror and author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad, reviews pseudonymous SEAL Mark Owen's No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden and Richard Miniter's "Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him." In [...]
This superbly researched account of the United States' decade-long effort to track and kill bin Laden provides the intimate details on virtually every critical decision along the way.
President Barack Obama instructed U.S. commandos to fight their way out if they were challenged by Pakistani soldiers during the Abbottabad raid that killed Osama bin Laden, according to the new book Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden by journalist Peter Bergen. Show More Summary
Out next week: Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden -- from 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter L. Bergen.
Well this is... interesting.
According to a soon-to-be released book by Peter Bergen, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad, the international terrorist considered himself something of a lady's man, and treasured...Show More Summary
Peter Bergen's new book, "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden-- from 9/11 to Abbottabad" has been sitting on my horizontal bookshelf (née diningroom table) for a week, and I regret that. Had I cracked it open immediately, I would have learned at least two fas …