Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads. The Exile tells the extraordinary inside story of that decade through the eyes of those who witnessed it: bin Laden's four wives and many children, his deputies and military strategists, his spiritual advisor, the CIA, Pakistan's ISI, and many others who have never before told their stories. Investigative...
4) Countdown Bin Laden: the untold story of the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. August 27, 2010. Three CIA officers inform CIA Director Leon Panett that agents have tracked a courier with deep Al Qaeda ties to a heavily protected fortress at the end of a dead-end street in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It may be the end of the race to apprehend and bring to justice the mastermind of the most consequential terrorist...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL, many prophesied al-Qaeda's imminent demise. In reality the opposite has occurred. Why? Watching the Arab Spring from his Pakistani safe house, bin Laden had seen an historic opportunity: "The next stage will be the return of the caliphate." In the six years since bin Laden's death, al-Qaeda's affiliates metastasized, and the Islamic State, its most brutal spinoff, proclaimed itself the reborn caliphate...
12) Zero dark thirty
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.
13) Retribution
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 18
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On May 1, 2011, a team of twenty-four members of US SEAL Team Six swooped down on the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Their mission, code-named Neptune Spear, was to find and kill the terrorist leader. The mission was a success. Since that day, elements of the government of Pakistan have harbored a deep hatred for the SEALs who violated their sovereign territory. Now they've hired a team of German assassins to kill all twenty-four...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A memoir that "ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's ... four-hundred-mission career, which included his involvement in attempts to rescue 'Lone Survivor' Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and which culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden"--Amazon.com.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request