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Countdown Bin Laden The Untold Story Of The 247 - Day Hunt To Bring The Mastermind Of 9/11 To Justice
Countdown Bin Laden The Untold Story Of The 247 - Day Hunt To Bring The Mastermind Of 9/11 To Justice
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Description: #1 National Bestseller * Instant NEW YORK Times Bestseller 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 CI a officers ask for a private meeting with CI a 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 at the end of a dead - end street in Abbottabad Pakistan. But they say it's more than a house it's a heavily protected fortress. No one in the meeting says the name bin Laden. They don t have to. Everyone understands that finally after nearly a decade maybe just maybe they ve found the world's most wanted man. In Countdown bin Laden celebrated journalist and CNN anchor and Max host Chris Wallace delivers a vivid account of the final eight months of intelligence gathering national security strategizing and meticulous military planning that leads to the climactic mission when SEAL Team Six closes in on its target. The book delivers new information collected from Wallace's in - depth interviews with more than a dozen central figures including Admiral William H. Mc Raven leader of the operation in Pakistan as well as CI a Director Panetta Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Defense Secretary Robert Gates National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and the SEAL Team Six special operator who kills Osama bin Laden. Wallace also brings to life the human elements of this story talking to families who lost loved ones on 9/11, sharing what relatives of SEAL Team Six went through and bringing us inside the tense Situation Room during the raid. Countdown bin Laden is a historical thriller filled with intrigue cinematic action and fresh reporting about the race to apprehend and bring to justice the mastermind of the most consequential terrorist attack in American history.
Title: Countdown Bin Laden The Untold Story Of The 247 - Day Hunt To Bring The Mastermind Of 9/11 To Justice
Author(s): Wallace Chris
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982176532
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/10/2022
Series: Chris Wallace's Countdown Series
Category: History Of The Americas
Description: #1 National Bestseller * Instant NEW YORK Times Bestseller 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 CI a officers ask for a private meeting with CI a 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 at the end of a dead - end street in Abbottabad Pakistan. But they say it's more than a house it's a heavily protected fortress. No one in the meeting says the name bin Laden. They don t have to. Everyone understands that finally after nearly a decade maybe just maybe they ve found the world's most wanted man. In Countdown bin Laden celebrated journalist and CNN anchor and Max host Chris Wallace delivers a vivid account of the final eight months of intelligence gathering national security strategizing and meticulous military planning that leads to the climactic mission when SEAL Team Six closes in on its target. The book delivers new information collected from Wallace's in - depth interviews with more than a dozen central figures including Admiral William H. Mc Raven leader of the operation in Pakistan as well as CI a Director Panetta Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Defense Secretary Robert Gates National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and the SEAL Team Six special operator who kills Osama bin Laden. Wallace also brings to life the human elements of this story talking to families who lost loved ones on 9/11, sharing what relatives of SEAL Team Six went through and bringing us inside the tense Situation Room during the raid. Countdown bin Laden is a historical thriller filled with intrigue cinematic action and fresh reporting about the race to apprehend and bring to justice the mastermind of the most consequential terrorist attack in American history.
Title: Countdown Bin Laden The Untold Story Of The 247 - Day Hunt To Bring The Mastermind Of 9/11 To Justice
Author(s): Wallace Chris
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982176532
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/10/2022
Series: Chris Wallace's Countdown Series
Category: History Of The Americas