Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden


Manhunt The Search for Bin Laden is a 2013 documentary directed by Greg Barker that explores the Central Intelligence Agencys investigation of Osama bin Laden starting from 1995 until his death in 2011. It premiered on HBO on May 1, 2013, two years after the mission that killed bin Laden. The documentary features narratives by many of the CIA analysts and operatives who worked over a decade understanding and then tracking bin Laden and also includes archival film footage across Washington, D.C., Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East. It also features extensive and rarely seen footage of AlQaeda training and propaganda videos, including video suicide notes from various terrorists who later worked as suicide bombers.

The first section of the documentary interviews a crew of female CIA analysts, known as the Band of Sisters, about their involvement in tracking down Osama bin Laden. They include Susan Hasler, Cindy Storer, Nada Bakos, Gina Bennett, a 25year veteran of the agency, and Barbara Sude, a senior AlQaeda analyst. It also features John E. McLaughlin who oversaw the CIA analysts and worked for staff training. The documentary mentions that the CIA started the Bin Laden Issue Station in 1995 with the code name Alec Station.This section of the documentary interviews Peter Bergen who has been reporting in Afghanistan for overyears and briefly mentions the insignificance of bin Laden in 1984. ........

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