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How Obama Got Bin Laden: A Detailed Account from ‘Showdown’ by David Corn

The Raid

In a meticulously reported account from Showdown, veteran journalist David Corn details the tense deliberations leading up to the decision to raid the Abbottabad compound on May 1, 2011.

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