Target: Geronimo: The Ten-year Hunt for Osama Bin Laden

by Christian Jennings

On May 2, 2011, two teams of Navy SEALs, along with CIA operatives, stormed the Waziristan Mansion in Abbottabad, killing their intended target. The raid took fewer than 40 minutes, but it ended the decade-long hunt for the world’s most wanted man. TARGET: GERONIMO tells the inside story of how and where Osama bin Laden hid after September 11, 2001, despite massive efforts to find him. The story follows the operations that tracked him and fought the Taliban and Al Qaeda on three continents. It examines the infamous CIA rendition of prisoners, interrogated by outside countries, allegedly using torture, and examines whether one rendition revealed the name of bin Laden’s courier, the man who unwittingly led them to him. It discusses attempts to control the drug trade inside Afghanistan to strangle Al Qaeda's funding and reveals how operational fusion intelligence successfully synthesized international intelligence and surveillance. A detailed portrait of the US Joint Naval Warfare Development Group, known as SEAL Team Six, offers new insight into the group that got the job done. Drawing on direct access to senior government and military officials as well as key intelligence figures, Jennings analyzes and reconstructs the final raid and answers the lingering questions: How did bin Laden hide in Pakistan “unnoticed” for six years, and did Pakistan know he was there?

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 22, 2011