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1) Countdown Bin Laden: the untold story of the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice
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English
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Following Chris Wallace's "riveting" (The New York Times) and "propulsive" (Time) first book Countdown 1945 comes a deeply reported, revelatory, and thrillingly told account of the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. On August 27, 2010, three CIA officers ask for a private meeting with CIA Director Leon Panetta. During that secret session, they tell Panetta that agents have tracked a courier with deep Al Qaeda ties to a three-story house...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For almost ten years following the attacks of 9/11, Osama Bin Laden--the most wanted man in the world--evaded intelligence services and special forces units that spent millions of dollars trying to kill him. The Exile tells the extraordinary inside story of that decade--and beyond--through the eyes of those who witnessed the key events.--
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction • A New York Times bestseller
“The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply satisfying.” —The New York Review of Books
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S and The Achilles Trap comes the explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan.
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“The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply satisfying.” —The New York Review of Books
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S and The Achilles Trap comes the explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan.
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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
No one knows more about Osama bin Laden than Peter Bergen. In 1997, well before the West suddenly became aware of the world's most sought-after terrorist, Bergen met with him and has followed his activities ever since. Today, years after President Bush swore to get him dead or alive and despite haunting the popular imagination since September 11, 2001, bin Laden remains shrouded in mystery and obscured by a barrage of facts, details and myths. With...
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. Writing under a pseudonym to protect his anonymity, a member of the elite SEAL Team Six provides a behind-the-scenes, first-person account of all his dangerous assignments around the globe, including the training, planning and execution of his most important...
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--a mission requiring the best America had to offer: roughly forty members of America's super-secret counterterrorist unit, an élite and mysterious unit known as Delta Force. And these Delta warriors had the best help they could ask for: the CIA, a dozen of the British Queen's elite commandos, and another dozen or so Army Green Berets. This team waged a modern-day siege of epic proportions against...
11) Osama Bin Laden
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Series
Publisher
ABDO & Daughters
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Islamic extremist who uses his family wealth to fund and support worldwide terrorism and who has been linked to many terrorist attacks since the 1980s.
13) Army of one
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The film is inspired by the true story of Gary Faulkner, a handyman from Colorado who receives a vision from God telling him to go to Pakistan to do what no one else can do: capture Osama bin Laden. So without any questions or skills, he follows his mission." --
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead. In early 2011, the heart of the Muslim world roiled in protest, consumed with the upheaval of the Arab Spring, The governments of Tunisia and Egypt had already fallen; those of Libya and Yemen would soon follow. Watching the chaos from his hideout in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden saw a historic opportunity: 'the next stage,' he declared, 'will be the reinstating...
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Series
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It was a beautiful late summer morning, the kind of day even busy New Yorkers took a moment to appreciate. The sky was spectacularly clear, tinted an azure blue, the air stirred by a gentle breeze. The mood of the city seemed optimistic as people hurried down the crowded streets on their way to work. Then the world as people knew it changed forever. The attack on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and New York City's World Trade Center by three fuel-laden,...
16) Zero dark thirty
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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.