CIA Inside Out: Bin Laden, Tora Bora and the War on Terror with Gary Berntsen and Michael Scheuer
Recorded Mar 9, 2006
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In Gary Berntsen’s best-selling book Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander, the decorated, clandestine officer tells how he coordinated the fight against Taliban forces around Kabul, and deployed a remarkable array of Special Forces teams that cornered Bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountains. Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center’s Bin Laden Unit and the best-selling author of Imperial Hubris, will interview Berntsen. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear and meet two of the key players in the pursuit of Al Qaeda.
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