The elusive truth about the killing of bin Laden
Sense and nonsense about Obama and Osama
By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst
Updated 4:39 PM EDT, Wed August 29, 2012
Editor's note: Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, is a director at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that seeks innovative solutions across the ideological spectrum, and the author of the new book "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden -- From 9/11 to Abbottabad."
(CNN) -- On Wednesday some media outlets obtained copies of the heavily embargoed book "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen, the pseudonym of one of the Navy SEALs who was part of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden.
The much-anticipated book, which is already No. 1 on Amazon, changes the way that the mission has been reported in one significant way. Owen says that one of his SEAL teammates shot bin Laden as soon as he poked his head out the door of his bedroom, not, as was previously reported, after the SEALs had entered the bedroom, according to The Huffington Post's account of the contents of "No Easy Day." This version of events indicates -- if there was ever any real doubt about this issue -- that there was little real effort made to capture bin Laden.
Owen's eyewitness account of the bin Laden raid has the ring of truth in ways that another recently published book that also focuses on the operation does not.
Richard Miniter, the author of a number of books with a conservative slant about U.S. national security, has just released a new one about President Barack Obama whose title, "Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors who Decide for Him," leaves you in little doubt about the overall theme of the book.
(More here.)
By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst
Updated 4:39 PM EDT, Wed August 29, 2012
Editor's note: Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, is a director at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that seeks innovative solutions across the ideological spectrum, and the author of the new book "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden -- From 9/11 to Abbottabad."
(CNN) -- On Wednesday some media outlets obtained copies of the heavily embargoed book "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen, the pseudonym of one of the Navy SEALs who was part of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden.
The much-anticipated book, which is already No. 1 on Amazon, changes the way that the mission has been reported in one significant way. Owen says that one of his SEAL teammates shot bin Laden as soon as he poked his head out the door of his bedroom, not, as was previously reported, after the SEALs had entered the bedroom, according to The Huffington Post's account of the contents of "No Easy Day." This version of events indicates -- if there was ever any real doubt about this issue -- that there was little real effort made to capture bin Laden.
Owen's eyewitness account of the bin Laden raid has the ring of truth in ways that another recently published book that also focuses on the operation does not.
Richard Miniter, the author of a number of books with a conservative slant about U.S. national security, has just released a new one about President Barack Obama whose title, "Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors who Decide for Him," leaves you in little doubt about the overall theme of the book.
(More here.)
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