Wanted Dead or Alive

A Journal of Strategic Manhunts and Counter-Terrorism

Friday, July 19, 2013

Today in Manhunting History -- July 19, 2003: The Tip that Doomed the Hussein Brothers

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On July 19, U.S. forces received a tip that Uday and Qusay were hiding in the northern city of Mosul. The informant failed a polygraph test,...

The Abbottabad Commission Report, Part IV: Mark Stout

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Another interesting take on the Abbottabad Commission's report by Mark Stout , Director of the MA Program in Global Security Studies at ...

Tsarnaev Manhunt Photos Released

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In case you have not already seen these, Boston Magazine has published a series of photos from the hunt for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

More on the Capture of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales

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Miguel Angel Trevino Morales' mugshot was released yesterday. ( Mexican Navy, via Associated Press)   Three relevant pieces on Mond...

AQAP Number Two Killed

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Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)  announced today that its second-in-command, Said al-Shihri, was killed in a U.S. drone strike...

Pakistani Taliban Denies Syria Deployment

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Yeah, remember that story I linked to a long time ago (okay, yesterday) stating that the Pakistani Taliban has deployed “experts in warfare ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Al-Qa'ida's Big Week in Syria

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Last week al-Qa’ida’s two affiliates in Syria -- the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant -- were in the news quite a...
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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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