: Alexander Stilwell
: Manhunt The Art and Science of Tracking High Profile Enemy Targets
: Amber Books Ltd
: 9781782740971
: 1
: CHF 6.40
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: Geschichte
: English
: 320
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
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A manhunt can involve helicopters, hounds and hundreds of military or police personnel, but it can also turn on the evidence of one broken spider's web. Manhunts today might involve the technology of infrared cameras and surveillance devices such as powerful satellite technology, but they may also rely on examining the width, depth, tread and intervals of footprints, or observing minute changes in the natural environment.
From searching for high-value enemy targets such as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to finding soldiers caught behind enemy lines, from escaped prisoners and serial killers to a missing child,SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Manhuntexplores just how the military and police forces track people down. Including many case studies of high-value targets, suspected criminals and fugitives from justice, and with extensive background on the different techniques in tracking used, from traditional Native American trackers' skills to the latest high-tech methods, Manhunt brings together the history and science of tracking.
Illustrated with 150 maps and photographs,SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Manhunt is an authoritative examination of tracking from footprints to forensics and a must for anyone interested in the latest military practices, true crime and survival skills.

CASE STUDY 1:

The Greatest Manhunt in History – Finding Bin Laden:

Part 1

It was the greatest terrorist crime in history and its mastermind – Osama bin Laden – became the most wanted and the most hunted man in history.

On 11 September 2001, Islamic terrorists, some of them trained as commercial airline pilots, hijacked four US airliners on routine flights. Two were crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and one crashed in a field. The brave men and women of the New York rescue services and police went into the twin towers to attempt to control the blaze and rescue survivors. Due to the calamitous impact of the aircraft upon the structure of the buildings, however, 343 firefighters and 23 policemen themselves died as they collapsed.

It did not take long for the US Government to identify the perpetrators of this attack, and Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda were equally quick to claim credit. The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1368 (2001) in which it called on ‘all States to work together urgently to bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of these terrorist attacks’ and also stressed ‘that those responsible for aiding, supporting or harbouring the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of these acts will be held accountable’.

The die was cast. Now it was just a question of finding Osama bin Laden and his allies.

Terrorist Lair

Al-Qaeda, which translated from Arabic means ‘The Base’, was founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s. The roots of the terrorist organization lay in the insurgency against Soviet forces that had occupied Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989. The Taliban regime took control in Afghanistan from about 1996 and imposed their ultra-fundamentalist policies, which included the exclusion of women from public life. The fact that they harboured al-Qaeda and refused to extradite Osama bin Laden after 9/11 meant that their days were now numbered.

These are the routes of the four ill-fated airliners that were hijacked on 11 September 2001.

‘Enduring Freedom’

Although a manhunt was now on to get Osama bin Laden, it was part of a wider ‘War on Terror’ that involved initially an attack on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.The United States had learned something from history and, instead of rolling in large conventional forces, it initially conducted a Special Forces insertion spearheaded by 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), part of Joint Special Operations Task Force North, or Task Force Dagger. They