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An article “Getting Bin Laden” written by Nicholas Schmidle published in The New Yorker's August 8 edition explains what went wrong that moonless night. For many months before initiating the raid an elite team of SEALS had practised every step of the ...

The story, "Getting Bin Laden" by Nicholas Schmidle, describes a weeklong training exercise for SEAL Team Six after the commando squad flew to Nevada on April 18. Some information about preparations for the raid, plotted at CIA headquarters in Virginia ...

Nicholas Schmidle's utterly compelling tale in The New Yorker -- on the takedown of Osama bin Laden by an elite Navy commando team -- was revealing in numerous ways. Alas, one was quite troubling -- in that it suggests Team Obama has elevated politics ...

Nicholas Schmidle, fellow at the New America Foundation and author of "To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years Inside Pakistan," has the never before told story of Osama bin Laden's final night. Register for your own account so you can vote ...

Writes Nicholas Schmidle, "For more than sixty years, Pakistan's military has maintained a state of high alert against its eastern neighbour, India. Because of this obsession, Pakistan's “principal air defenses are all pointing east,” Shuja Nawaz, ...

The New Yorker magazine article by Nicholas Schmidle reveals new, never-before-discussed, details on SEAL Team Six's raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. According to Schmidle, the Abbottabad raid was not SEAL Team Six's first ...

Ray Suarez discusses the Navy SEAL operation with journalist Nicholas Schmidle, who uncovered new details about the May raid for an article in the latest issue of The New Yorker. ...

The plan, according to the article's author, Nicholas Schmidle, was for the Seals to “overpower bin Laden's guards, shoot and kill him at close range, and then take the corpse back to Afghanistan”. In May, John Brennan, Mr Obama's counter-terrorism ...

In a painstaking article in the New Yorker, Nicholas Schmidle builds up a picture of a raid the president had hoped for ever since he entered the White House - and for which he had to fight colleagues, including Defence Secretary Robert Gates, ...

Back in the fall of 2008, Michael Bester and a business partner, both Army veterans doing contract work in Afghanistan, hit on the equivalent of the counterinsurgency’s trifecta: a way to improve the lives of ordinary Afghans, eliminate the illegal opium trade, and take the Taliban’s money. “We had been in villages where children were dying because they didn’t have proper medicine, because they didn’t have refrigerators,” Bester told me. Light up the villages, and perhaps you could empower Afghans to resist the Taliban. And the fuel?

The Accra Psychiatric Hospital occupies a sprawling block in the heart of Ghana’s capital. Walls the color of aged parchment rim the compound, with coils of concertina wire balanced on top, making the hospital within appear more labor camp than home for the sick. Anas Aremeyaw Anas spent seven months last year casing it, posing first as a taxi driver and then as a baker. On the morning of November 20, 2009, Anas adopted yet another disguise, matting his hair into dreadlocks and pulling on a black button-up top. Three of his shirt buttons, along with his watch, contained hidden cameras.

“It's of the most overlooked factors in Pakistan," says Nicholas Schmidle, a fellow at the Washington-based New America Foundation and author of the book, ...