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and a preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, will
discuss and sign his new book
From Mark Bowden, the preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, comes
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a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key
sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and
on the ground where the action unfolded.
After masterminding the attacks of September 11, 2001, Osama bin
Laden managed to vanish. Over the next ten years, as Bowden shows,
America found that its war with al Qaeda—a scattered group of
individuals who were almost impossible to track—demanded an innovative
approach. Step by step, Bowden describes the development of a new
tactical strategy to fight this war—the fusion of intel from various
agencies and on-the-ground special ops. After thousands of special
forces missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the right weapon to go after
bin Laden had finally evolved. By Spring 2011, intelligence pointed to a
compound in Abbottabad; it was estimated that there was a 50/50 chance
that Osama was there. Bowden shows how three strategies were mooted: a
drone strike, a precision bombing, or an assault by Navy SEALs. In the
end, the President had to make the final decision. It was time for the
finish.
Gregory Johnsen, a former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, is a
PhD candidate at Princeton University and a frequent guest on NPR.
Johnsen will discuss and sign his new book
The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia.
Far from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and
al-Qaeda are fighting a clandestine war of drones and suicide bombers
in an unforgiving corner of Arabia.
The Last Refuge charts the rise,
fall, and resurrection of al-Qaeda in Yemen over the last thirty years,
detailing how a group that the United States once defeated has now
become one of the world's most dangerous threats. An expert on Yemen who
has spent years on the ground there, Gregory D. Johnsen uses al-Qaeda's
Arabic battle notes to reconstruct their world as they take aim at the
United States and its allies. Johnsen brings readers in-side al-Qaeda's
training camps and safe houses as the terrorists plot poison attacks and
debate how to bring down an airliner on Christmas Day.
The Last Refuge
is an eye-opening look at the successes and failures of fighting a new
type of war in one of the most turbulent countries in the world.
TONIGHT, Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7:30 pm at our Historic Lodo Store!!!
Can’t make it to the signing? Request an autographed copy here: books@tatteredcover.com
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