Killing “Crankshaft”
August 1st, 2011




Run, don’t walk, to the astounding story by Nicholas Schmidle in the New Yorker on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. Highlights include: a CIA operative running an “immunization drive” in Abbottabad, “settling with power,” sandwich platters from Costco.

And “For God and country–Geronimo. Geronimo. Geronimo.”

Tick-tock reporting at its absolute best. Bowden-esque.

  1. SkinsFanPG August 1, 2011 at 9:49 am

    For God and country, Geronimo. Fucking awesome.

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  2. gfaw August 1, 2011 at 10:01 am

    Obama (surprise!) finds time for a half-round of golf in the middle of it.

    Of course, that’s the only thing to like about the guy.

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  3. “Ghost Hawks” — Jonathan Last Online November 7, 2011 at 4:04 pm

    […] Neptune’s Spear (the mission to get Osama bin Laden) sounds like it differs quite a lot from the account in the New Yorker. For instance, Pfarrer claims that the SEAL helicopter crash inside the compound after the mission […]

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