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Bin Laden, Osama 1957-2011 Bin Laden, Osama 1957-2011 Assassination Bin Laden, Osama 1957-2011 Juvenile literature Jihad Qaida (Organization) Special operations (Military science) Pakistan Special operations (Military science) United States Terrorism Terrorists Biography War on Terrorism, 2001-2009Lüsted, Marcia Amidon.
Summary: Profiles the terrorist leader of al-Qaida, who orchestrated the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, and describes his assassination by the U.S. government in May of 2011.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.1047 LUSScott-Clark, Cathy
Summary: The Exile joins Osama bin Laden as he escapes into Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, bringing to vivid life the years leading up to his death spent on the run and in exile. It tells the human story, and illuminates the global political workings. It is a tale of evasion, collusion, betrayal and the deep pain of isolation. Staying with a small group of characters throughout, The Exile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SCOBergen, Peter L.
Summary: Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence, and the military, this is the definitive account of ten years in pursuit of bin Laden and of the twilight of Al-Qaeda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 BERElish, Dan
Summary: On-point historical photographs combined with strong narration bring the story of the raid that captured bin Laden to life. Kids will feel as though they are in the room with President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the others in the cabinet who called for and monitored the raid. Primary source quotations make the event feel immediate, and photographs by the White House...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.104 ELIHersh, Seymour M
Summary: In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama’s first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HEROwen, Mark.
Summary: For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 958.1047 OWENS, MARK OWEBowden, Mark
Summary: Recounts the hunt for and defeat of Osama bin Laden, drawing on unprecedented access to primary sources to trace how key decisions were made, revealing events from the perspectives of an adept President Obama and an increasingly despondent bin Laden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 BOWWeisman, John.
Summary: Presents a fictionalized re-telling of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden based on real events, from political wrangling in Washington D.C., through the hard work and meticulous planning by the intelligence community, to the dramatic raid by SEAL Team 6 that finally took down their target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIGregory, Josh.
Summary: Details the search for Osama bin Laden that began after the September 11 terrorist attacks and ended with a raid on his compound in May 2011.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.32516 GREO'Neill, Robert
Summary: Stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career that included his involvement in attempts to rescue “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world’s most wanted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'NEILL, ROBERT ONECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ONEILL ONESummary: Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZER RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZePfarrer, Chuck.
Summary: On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 PFABergen, Peter L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 958.1046 BINBergen, Peter L.
Summary: "The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century, and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIN LADEN, OSAMA BERWallace, Chris
Summary: Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021