# The mission to get Bin Laden - Off topic but a must read

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-mission-to-get-bin-laden-off-topic-but-a-must-read/6033>\
**Category:** Scuttlebutt\
**Created:** [August 12, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-mission-to-get-bin-laden-off-topic-but-a-must-read/6033 "2011-08-12T12:27:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mikey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/mikey/32/14_2.png) [@Mikey](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Mikey)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-mission-to-get-bin-laden-off-topic-but-a-must-read/6033/1 "2011-08-12T12:27:20Z")

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Not exactly on topic but this article published in the New Yorker blew me away.

> **[Getting Bin Laden](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/08/08/getting-bin-laden)**
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> What happened that night in Abbottabad.

Ok, to make it somewhater relevent, it notes that at least three of the SEALs in the operation to kill Bin Laden participated in the sniper operation that freed Richard Phillips, the captain of the Maersk Alabama.

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**Author:** ![skycowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@skycowboy](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/skycowboy)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-mission-to-get-bin-laden-off-topic-but-a-must-read/6033/2 "2011-08-13T00:25:56Z")

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I call BS on the article. But they have a good imagination.

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**Author:** ![tysonsvt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tysonsvt](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/tysonsvt)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-mission-to-get-bin-laden-off-topic-but-a-must-read/6033/3 "2011-09-06T11:01:43Z")

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Awesome article. Regardless of accuracy, it was a damned fine read!