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Former navy seal, matt bissonnette, filed a lawsuit against his exlawyers for advising him it was ok to publish his book about the osama bin laden raid. From mark bowden, the preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, comes the finish, a gripping account of the hunt for osama bin laden. The navy seal who has said he fired the shots that killed osama bin laden has a memoir coming out this spring. Before and after osama 2012, imtiaz gul, executive director of the centre for research and security studies, a think tank in islamabad, wrote that hed spoken to four undercover. Mark bowdens new book, the finish, tells of the hunt for osama bin laden from the top down based on access to obama. Did enhanced interrogation help the cia find osama bin laden. The cia agent who found bin laden is having trouble at work. While i could always ask for a more detailed, and more definitive account of what happened, i do believe that this book does an amazing job of. Get the facts and a timeline of the raid on history. Osama bin laden, washington post, 20 september 2001, p. He was the 17th of 52 children born to mohammed bin laden, a yemeni immigrant who owned the largest construction company in the.
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