Thousands of documents and letters were seized by Navy Seals during the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011. When they were declassified in 2017, Nelly Lahoud spent years translating and analyzing them, gaining an unprecedented insight into the man behind 9/11. For the first time, we discover how Al Qaeda’s capabilities were overestimated, what life was like in hiding in Pakistan, the family dynamics, and hear Nelly’s own version of events that led to Bin Laden’s capture.
Nelly Lahoud is the author of ‘The Bin Laden Papers, How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about Al-Qaeda, Its Leader, and His Family.’