https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn323n2H51g
Explore the untold story of the CIA's clandestine operation to capture Osama Bin Laden in this revealing episode of the Declassified Series. From the incepti

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden_Issue_Station
The Bin Laden Issue Station, also known as Alec Station, was a standalone unit of the Central Intelligence Agency in operation from 1996 to 2005 dedicated to tracking Osama bin Laden and his associates, both before and after the 9/11 attacks. It was headed initially by CIA analyst Michael Scheuer and later by Richard Blee and others.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2013/04/29/osama-bin-laden-may/
The story of how the CIA first got onto bin Laden's trail, and how it ultimately pointed Navy SEALs to his physical address in Pakistan, is the subject of the new documentary Manhunt, premiering Wednesday night on HBO. Directed by Greg Barker ( Sergio, Koran by Heart ), it "stars" some of the former members of the Sisterhood and other CIA

http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/12/2006-george-w-bush-hunt-for-osama-bin.html#!
The Alec Station was the code name for a unit of the Central Intelligence Agency dedicated to tracking Osama bin Laden and his associates. The station first opened in 1996 and lasted until 2005. Alec Station was a virtual station that fused together several intelligence disciplines into one.

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/05/manhunt-meet-the-cia-sisterhood-that-tracked-bin-laden
Much of the beginning story focuses on what the documentary calls "The Sisterhood," a group of female CIA analysts that often worked alongside Alec Station, a CIA operations unit organized in the

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/documentary-focuses-on-analysts-behind-manhunt-for-osama-bin-laden
Two years after the hunt for Osama bin Laden came to an end, a new HBO documentary called "Manhunt" traces the origins of that search to far earlier than the 9/11 attacks, and profiles a group of

https://www.military.com/podcasts/left-of-boom/2021/05/09/untold-story-of-hunt-osama-bin-laden.html
The Untold Story of the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden. It has been 10 years since May 2, 2011, the night a top-secret SEAL raid took out notorious terrorist and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden at his

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hunting-osama-bin-laden-was-womens-work-flna2D11594091
Women made up the majority of analysts - at one point all the analysts -- in "Alec Station," the unit charged with finding Bin Laden, managed the ramp-up at the CIA's Counter Terrorism

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/arts/television/manhunt-for-bin-laden-on-hbo.html
A scene from "Manhunt," about female C.I.A. analysts who identified the Osama bin Laden threat years before Sept. 11. HBO. By Mike Hale. April 30, 2013. The former C.I.A. analysts Cindy Storer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_for_Osama_bin_Laden
Tracking. American intelligence officials discovered the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden by tracking one of his couriers. Information was collected from Guantánamo Bay detainees, who gave intelligence officers the courier's pseudonym as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, and said that he was a protégé of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. In 2007, U.S. officials discovered the courier's real name and, in 2009, that

https://www.documentary.org/online-feature/road-abbottabad-manhunt-tracks-search-bin-laden
In Manhunt, that story begins in the early 1990s when a group of female analysts within the CIA known as "The Sisterhood" identified the existence of al-Qaeda, and bin Laden as its head. The cadre of analysts went on to work in a unit in the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center known as "Alec Station." Its sole purpose was to track bin Laden's

https://www.gq.com/story/gary-faulkner-hunts-osama-bin-laden
Equipped with little more than a sword that he'd bought on a home-shopping network, a pair of night-vision goggles, and the blessing of a vengeful Christian God, 50-year-old ex-con Gary Faulkner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt:_The_Search_for_Bin_Laden
Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden is a 2013 documentary film directed by Greg Barker that explores the Central Intelligence Agency's investigation of Osama bin Laden, starting from 1995 until his death in 2011.It premiered on HBO on May 1, 2013, two years after the mission that killed bin Laden. The documentary features narratives by many of the CIA analysts and operatives who worked over a

https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-ex-cia-analyst-says-she-got-bloodied-tangled-us-war-al-qaeda-2022-04-20/
After joining Alec Station, Scheuer rose to deputy chief and then, she says, its chief. A 2005 CIA Inspector General report said the CIA "failed to pass the travel information" about Al Qaeda

https://www.npr.org/2011/05/07/136084843/mission-accomplished-for-cias-special-bin-laden-unit
That meant focusing less on bin Laden and more on al-Qaida as a network. So in 2005, the CIA reorganized. Alec Station disbanded. Those analysts were folded into the larger counterterrorism unit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html
In his book "Ghost Wars," which chronicles the agency's efforts to hunt Mr. bin Laden in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks, Steve Coll wrote that some inside the agency likened Alec Station to

https://theweek.com/articles/464955/who-who-hunt-bin-laden
Richard Blee: Head of the CIA's Alec Station unit after its founder, Michael Scheuer, retired in 1999. Allegedly did not tell the White House or FBI that two terrorists (later 9/11 hijackers) the

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2475544/
Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden: Directed by Greg Barker. With Osama bin Laden, Nada Bakos, Marty Martin, Cindy Storer. Filled with testimony and recollections from actual C.I.A. agents, this in-depth account reveals the remarkable true story of the pursuit of the world's most notorious terrorist, Osama bin Laden.

https://www.sfgate.com/tv/article/Manhunt-review-Osama-bin-Laden-hunt-4476511.php
A unit called Alec Station to monitor al Qaeda was created in 1995. Storer wrote the first memo warning her superiors that bin Laden was bent on terrorist attacks in 1997. Other memos and reports

https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/digital-exhibitions/digital-exhibition-revealed-hunt-bin-laden
This online collection of stories was adapted from the 9/11 Memorial Museum's special exhibition Revealed: The Hunt For Bin Laden.The supporting lesson plans explore what the U.S. government knew about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the years prior to the 9/11 attacks, and what our government was doing during the nearly 10-year period between 9/11 and the 2011 raid to find bin Laden.

https://www.electrosonic.com/projects/revealed-the-hunt-for-bin-laden
OVERVIEW. 'Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden' recreates a real-life detective story previously shrouded in secrecy. The story unfolds in six parts from the early terrorist attacks on US embassies and warships before 9/11 to the climax when a US Navy SEAL unit attack and kill bin Laden in his compound. One of the key elements in the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfreda_Frances_Bikowsky
Alfreda Frances Bikowsky (born 1965) is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who has headed the Bin Laden Issue Station and the Global Jihad unit. Bikowsky's identity is not publicly acknowledged by the CIA, but was deduced by independent investigative journalists in 2011. In January 2014, the Washington Post named her and tied her to a pre-9/11 intelligence failure and the

https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/hbo-s-manhunt-review-catching-the-world-s-most-wanted-terrorist-x70385
"Manhunt" tells the remarkable true story of the two decade search for the world's most notorious terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. Credit: HBO By VERNE GAY verne.gay@newsday.com April 30, 2013