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Bowden was trying to tell the story just months after it. In the novel, justice is served on the victims of the septemeber 11, 2001 attacks. In this concise and wellwritten book, former chief of the cias bin laden unit scheuer presents a compelling argument that american political, military and media leaders are engaged in mortal combat with a fabricated enemy of their own creation and preference, instead of with bin laden himself. His newest book, the killing of osama bin laden, is an exploration of foreign policy under barack obama. Scheffer and another expert stated that it was important to determine whether the mission was to capture bin laden or to kill him. The author at times slips into policy critiques that are less convincing, and parts of the book read like inside baseball, because he spends considerable time criticizing other.
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