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Manhunt details U.S. mission to find Osama bin Laden
By Karen DeYoung, Published: April 27
Six weeks before the raid by U.S. Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden last May, President Obamas top national security officials debated various other options, including dropping an experimental small bomb on the al-Qaeda leader inside his Pakistani fortress, obliterating the compound with a B-2 bomber or inviting the Pakistanis to conduct a joint operation.
While some favored the small bomb option, including then-Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Gen. James E. Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, others persuasively argued that the mini-bomb might miss or that there would be no way to prove to the world that bin Laden had been killed, according to a new book by bin Laden expert Peter Bergen.
Amazon.com: Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad (9780307955579): Peter L. Bergen
...When Obama met with his top aides April 28, two days before the raid, both Gates and Vice President Biden reiterated their opposition to the operation as too risky. Bergen writes that they argued that the evidence of bin Ladens presence was circumstantial, the mission was too dangerous and relations with Pakistan would be destroyed...
By Karen DeYoung, Published: April 27
Six weeks before the raid by U.S. Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden last May, President Obamas top national security officials debated various other options, including dropping an experimental small bomb on the al-Qaeda leader inside his Pakistani fortress, obliterating the compound with a B-2 bomber or inviting the Pakistanis to conduct a joint operation.
While some favored the small bomb option, including then-Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Gen. James E. Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, others persuasively argued that the mini-bomb might miss or that there would be no way to prove to the world that bin Laden had been killed, according to a new book by bin Laden expert Peter Bergen.
Amazon.com: Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad (9780307955579): Peter L. Bergen
...When Obama met with his top aides April 28, two days before the raid, both Gates and Vice President Biden reiterated their opposition to the operation as too risky. Bergen writes that they argued that the evidence of bin Ladens presence was circumstantial, the mission was too dangerous and relations with Pakistan would be destroyed...
