Home Forums Miscellaneous Topics Movie, Book, and Music Review Book-- "Countdown to Bin Laden", by Chris Wallace and Mitch Weiss

This book was obviously written by someone who had access to the big players in the story. It is well written and is very interesting. And, fortunately, there is litlle in the way of politics in it. It does paint the leadership at the time as anxious to get Bin Laden and trying to reunite the country. Some of the SEAL team are written up in some detail (O'Neill, Chesney, Cairo) so it's not all about political/security meetings. The raid is described well.

It's worth reading.

Sounds interesting but I wonder how much is fantasy, do we ever know the truth? I have a hard time believing that the body was given a rapid burial at sea, who came up with that?

It doesn't say who as an individual but it was apparently decided in order to be respectful of the Muslims friendly to the US. Appropriate DNA specimens were obtained, it says, with more detail in the book.

Incidentally, it does include a bit about the 'Roast' at the annual Newspaper guys' dinner the night before the raid and how Obama's comments are thought to have pushed Trump into running for President.