Wanted Dead or Alive

A Journal of Strategic Manhunts and Counter-Terrorism

Friday, March 9, 2012

Today in Manhunting History -- March 9, 1916: Villa Attacks the United States

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In 1916, Columbus, New Mexico was little more than “a cluster of adobe houses, a hotel, a few stores and streets knee deep in sand” filled w...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Attention Tucson Readers

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If anybody lives in the greater Tucson area, I will be appearing at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend.  I will be participating o...

Ilyas Kashmiri: Not as Dead as Previously Thought?

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The Long War Journal, citing reporting by the Daily Times of Pakistan, reports that senior al-Qa'ida leader Ilyas Kashmiri recently met...
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Bin Laden's Wives Charged . . .

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. . . with violating Pakistan's immigration laws.  No, really .

Speaking of Social Media . . .

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I am not on Twitter in any way, shape, or form, but apparently while I was linking to the State Department's social media manhunt on Mar...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Social Networking and Manhunting

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I missed this last week, but the invaluable Noah Shachtman reported at Wired.com's Danger Room about a State Department-sponsored compet...

Osama bin Laden is in Maryland?!?

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Well, at least his body is, according to a theory expounded in internal Stratfor emails published by WikiLeaks . According to the emails (...
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Benjamin Runkle is a former paratrooper and presidential speechwriter with a Harvard PhD and a Bronze Star from Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has worked in the Department of Defense and on the National Security Council. He is the author of "Wanted Dead or Alive: Manhunts from Geronimo to bin Laden."
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