The BBC Radio Four: The Hunt for Bin Laden
The BBC's Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera, did two radio programmes a month ago and I should have added them here.
Link to BBC News article, Part One:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14115327
Link to BBC podcasts, Part One:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012ftrq
Link to BBC News article, Part Two:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14190032
Link to BBC podcasts, Part Two:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012llrx
Bin Laden Turned in by Informant - Courier Was Cover Story
A puzzling story by Dr. RJ Hillhouse, which appeared in today's UK press and her blogsite is:http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/the....html#comments
Which opens with:
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Sources in the intelligence community tell me that after years of trying and one bureaucratically insane near-miss in Yemen, the US government killed OBL because a Pakistani intelligence officer came forward to collect the approximately $25 million reward from the State Department's Rewards for Justice program.
The informant was a walk-in.
Refreshing to see this walk-in had a better reaction than the 'Underwear Bomber' information given by his father in Lagos. Walk-in sources are the gems.
Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Laden Sidelined?
Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Laden Sidelined?
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Revelations on the Killing of Osama bin Laden
Revelations on the Killing of Osama bin Laden
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BBC: Bin Laden raid book offers rare insight
Mark Urban, a BBC journalist and ex-Army officer, who has written several books on the SAS and Northern Ireland, has written a review of 'No Easy Day' by Mark Jones:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19606623
A few of his comments:
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What emerges is a vivid portrait of the world in which these people lived, going out on raids so many times to kill or capture suspected terrorists that they all began to merge.
This puzzles me, partly as Iraq is not Afghanistan:
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There are signs that the special operations campaign in Afghanistan, notwithstanding the Bin Laden raid in neighbouring Pakistan, has been markedly less successful in reducing the wider pattern of violence than it was in Iraq.
I expect some here will hold far stronger opinions on the book's publication, Urban concludes:
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His book, understandably enough, focuses on the door-kickers' view, the dedication of those willing to go up against suicide bombers and extremist leaders, as well as the losses suffered by his comrades.
He has done a service to openness and accountability in writing it.