What Happened That Night in Abbottabad?

By Greg Scoblete
August 26, 2011

What happened in Abbottabad?

Mark Follman does a compare and contrast with two insider accounts of the bin Laden raid and finds some discrepancies:

'Between the Obama administration and major media reports, there have been multiple divergent accounts of the Navy SEALs' mission in Abbottabad, Pakistan, with the story seeming to be colored by politics, sensationalism, and outright fantasy. In some respects that's unsurprising for one of the most important and highly classified military missions in modern memoryâ?? the outcome of which, many would argue, is all that really matters. But precisely because of its importance, it is worth considering how the tales have been told, and where history begins to bleed into mythology.'

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