Somehow I missed this "Top 10 Manhunts" list that Time magazine published the day after the Abbottabad raid. Sure, it's gimmicky and misses some obvious choices (i.e. the Faqir of Ipi, Pablo Escobar, and Eric Rudolph, to name a few), but it is interesting nonetheless.
Again, the difference between most of these manhunts and what I describe as "strategic manhunts" are that only four of Time's Top 10 were pursued across an international border (Saddam, Karadzic, Eichmann, and bin Laden), and of those, Eichmann was not pursued by uniformed forces (it was strictly a covert Mossad operation) and Karadzic, although a prominent target, was one roughly two dozen Bosnian Serbs pursued by JSOC forces after the Dayton Accords.
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