Getting bin Laden: A detailed peek at that May night in Abbottabad
Three months now since the killing of Osama bin Laden, which in part has contributed to a refocusing of the U.S. and NATO mission in Afghanistan, comes an extraordinarily detailed account in The New Yorker of the planning that went into tracking bin Laden and the minutes leading up to the moment Navy SEALs shot and killed the former al-Qaida leader.
Inside an aircraft, 23 SEALs, a translator and a Belgian Malinois named Cairo made their way to the now-famous compound in Abbottabad. The New Yorker depicts is fine detail the political wrangling, intelligence research, and made-for-Hollywood night mission in an in-depth essay behind getting bin Laden.
