Seymour M. Hersh

The Killing of Osama Bin Laden (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the world, was incomplete, or a lie. The evidence of what actually went on remains hidden.

At the same time, the full story of the United States' involvement in the Syrian civil war has been kept behind a diplomatic curtain, concealed by doublespeak. It is a policy of obfuscation that has compelled the White House to turn a blind eye to Turkey's involvement in supporting ISIS and its predecessors in Syria.

This investigation, which began as a series of essays in the London Review of Books, has ignited a firestorm of controversy in the world media. In his introduction, Hersh asks what will be the legacy of Obama's time in office. Was it an era of "change we can believe in" or a season of lies and compromises that continued George W. Bush's misconceived War on Terror? How did he lose the confidence of the general in charge of America's forces who acted in direct contradiction to the White House? What else do we not know?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784784386
• Artikelnr.: 44934560

Autorenporträt

Seymour Hersh has written for the New Yorker and the London Review of Books, as well as serving as a Washington correspondent for the New York Times. He established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism more than four decades ago with an expose of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Since then he has uncovered stories from Kissinger's role in the Nixon Government to the expose of the military torture regime at Abu Ghraib prison. He has won the George Polk prize five times, twice the National Magazine Award for Public Interest, the L A Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.