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Who Shot OBL? Media Feud Among Seals | The Nation

March 28, 2013

But CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, an Al-Qaeda expert, dismissed that account as completely false. A SEAL Team 6 member interviewed by Bergen told him three SEALs out of the 23-strong team were the first to make it to the top floor of the ...

Episode 46: Mark Mykleby | The Conversation

March 27, 2013

Col. Mark “Puck” Mykleby is a former marine and co-author (along with Capt. Wayne Porter) of A National Strategic Narrative for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, a document that encouraged broadening the concept of defense to include sustainability. Currently Mark is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan policy institute dedicated to questions about the American future. We learned about Mark through our 41st interviewee, John Fullerton.

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CNN Debunks CNN's Debunker Of Esquire's Bin Laden Shooter Story | The Atlantic Wire

March 27, 2013

This is awkward, because the somewhat sensational story by Peter Bergen that CNN published on Tuesday regards Bissonette's account as the most credible. More specifically, Bergen attempts to debunk Esquire's story with one told by an anonymous SEAL ...

Third Seal Breaks Silence on Death of Osama Bin Laden | Telegraph.co.uk

March 26, 2013

Now a third member has broken his silence, telling CNN journalist Peter Bergen that the other accounts of the fateful day were wrong. "The SEAL team member I spoke to said [the Esquire account is] completely false, Bin Laden couldn't have reached for a ...

Shocking Visualisation of Drone Strikes in Pakistan | The Independent

March 26, 2013

It uses data collected by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the New America Foundation. The visualisation project was overseen by Wesley Grubbs, creative and technology director at Pitch. He was motivated to make it out of disappointment with ...

Who Are the Casualties of America's Drone Strikes? [Infographic] | Popular Science

March 26, 2013

The visualization does an excellent job conveying the sheer scale of collateral damage from strikes used to kill only a few high-value targets, and uses information on those high-value targets from the reputable New America Foundation. The real ...

Who Really Killed bin Laden?

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  • Peter Bergen,
  • New America Foundation
March 26, 2013 |

New Details in Bin Laden Killing Emerge | Daily Beast

March 26, 2013

"The people pushing what they say is the real account is the one that isn't that heroic, where bin Laden is sort of finished off on the floor, a lucky shot, as opposed to a man-to-man," said CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen, who spoke to the ...

Are The Americans Really Pulling Out? | The Express Tribune

March 24, 2013

Well … they're not going to pull out, according to Anatol Lieven, British author, journalist and policy analyst, who addressed a select audience in Karachi on March 20. It's just the ground troops who will be sent back. Not the cavalry. In a 45-minute ...

Behind Obama's Big 'No!' On Syria | National Journal

March 21, 2013

If it were not that tens of thousands of innocents who are being killed and wounded, the conflict could almost be considered a “net gain” at this point in terms of “cold calculations of national interest,” says Douglas Ollivant, the former director for ...

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