American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden was supposed to drop yesterday. It didn’t. Netflix just says that it’s coming soon and there was a “scheduling shift.”
Curious. Not to make it weird, but the last time I remember this happening with a show I was anticipating, was when The East India Co. Amazon Prime pulled The Last Narc, its doco series on the killing of Kiki Camarena. It eventually made it to the screen, but…
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that both documentaries involve the intelligence community. It’s fine. I’m sure it’s fine.
There is speculation that Netflix didn’t want to offend by releasing this over Ramadan, or on OBL’s birthday — which you’d think they could have checked well before announcing a release date. It’s a pretty sure bet lawyers are involved somewhere — and not he kind Warren Zevon was looking for. We’re unlikely to get a real answer. Hopefully we’ll eventually get the doco.
Gregory A Walker says
One can always read Billy Waugh’s 2004 book about his role in hunting OBL –
“In a statement Tuesday announcing Waugh’s death, 1st Special Forces Command said Waugh had “inspired a generation of special operations.”
“In a statement Tuesday announcing Waugh’s death, 1st Special Forces Command said Waugh had “inspired a generation of special operations.” “He was a true warrior and highly decorated,” the statement reads. “Our condolences go out to Billy’s family, friends, and loved ones. He will be missed. We will always honor and remember him.” The lure of combat drove most of Waugh’s career decisions, he wrote in his 2004 memoir “Hunting the Jackal,” which he penned with journalist Tim Keown. In all, he spent some five decades serving the United States in military and CIA jobs that took him to 64 countries…”
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/obituaries/2023-04-06/billy-waugh-green-beret-obit-9725279.html
JimC says
Matt is reading Annie Jacobsen’s Surprise, Kill, Vanish, which features Waugh heavily, including being within six feet of OBL. Great book. Matt’s working on a review for FP. As I get older, I increasingly appreciate the fantastic pictures of Waugh banging around on horseback in Northern Afghanistan post-9/11. What a man.
Matthew says
I literally read about Waugh and Bin Laden a few minutes ago.
The thing about SKV is that it covers so much it will be hard to summarize, but I will do my best. Its a very readable account though. Waugh is kind of a protagonist of this nonfictional record and you get an impression of a highly competent man.
Ugly Hombre says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30JFhmG3TrM#ddg-play
From “Recoil” TV magazine. Not sure it was put up before? great stories legend fun to hear him talk
Worked in a HQ building in the early 90’s there was a slender white haired older guy who worked in “Pubs” tech orders something like that- GI were respectful and sort of leery of him friendly man with a good sense of humor. Why? jeeze did you see his binders? what? “just ask him”
He had those black binders with page protectors marked with years 66’67’ 68′ etc with unit citations and photos from tours in Vietnam, Thailand etc, with SF. maybe 8 of them on a shelf behind his desk. Dead tigers and snakes size of fire hoses.
If he liked the way you asked he would let you look at them and talked about them in a general way. Really fun and interesting to learn. He had a south American wife charming and lovely who looked like model. He had a friend a French lady who was in the resistance in the war who had some type of a museum up north at a army base about WWII and the Marquis. He rode shotgun with the Highway patrol sometimes and was still in some type of State Milita
I got out and lost contact reading this thread and watching the Billy Waugh clips made me think of him- same type of talk but not as open..Great guy.