The upcoming issue of the _New Yorker_ has an interesting article:
"In the months after the raid, the media have frequently suggested that
the Abbottabad operation was as challenging as Operation Eagle Claw and
the “Black Hawk Down” incident, but the senior Defense Depa=
rtment
official told me that “this was not one of three missions. This was=
one
of almost two thousand missions that have been conducted over the last
couple of years, night after night.” He likened the routine of even=
ing
raids to “mowing the lawn.” On the night of May 1st alone,
special-operations forces based in Afghanistan conducted twelve other
missions; according to the official, those operations captured or
killed between fifteen and twenty targets."
o Schmidle, Nicholas. "Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in
Abbottabad." _New Yorker_ 8 Aug. 2011. 2 Aug. 2011
<http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/08/110808fa_fact_schmidle?curre=
ntPage=all>.
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