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American Manhunt - Osama bin Laden

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Featuring rare footage and interviews with CIA insiders, this edge-of-your-seat documentary series traces the epic hunt for Osama bin Laden.

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FCG Member Reviewer Rohit Khilnani
Rohit Khilnani | Bollywood Hungama
May 31, 2025
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देखिए ओसामा बिन लादेन को पकड़ने की कवायद

FCG Member Reviewer Deepak Dua
Deepak Dua | Independent Film Journalist & Critic
Sun, May 25 2025

नेटफ्लिक्स पर ‘अमेरिकन मैनहंट’ के तहत ऐसी कई डॉक्यूमैंट्री हैं जिनमें अमेरिका द्वारा समय-समय पर किए गए ‘मैनहंट’ यानी किसी अपराधी, आतंकवादी, कातिल की तलाश से जुड़ी जानकारी साझा की गई है। उसी कतार में ‘अमेरिकन मैनहंट-ओसामा बिन लादेन’ नाम की यह तीन एपिसोड की डॉक्यूमैंट्री आई है जो बताती है कि अमेरिका के इतिहास में 11 सितंबर, 2001 को उस पर हुए सबसे घातक हमले से पहले भी अमेरिका ओसामा को पकड़ना चाहता था लेकिन इस हमले के बाद तो जैसे अमेरिकी खुफिया विभाग रात-दिन उसके पीछे लगा रहा और आखिर दस साल लंबे इंतज़ार और कड़ी मेहनत के बाद उन्होंने उसे एक रात पाकिस्तान के एबटाबाद में उसके घर में मार गिराया और उसकी लाश को समुंदर की गहराइयों में फेंक दिया ताकि कल को कोई उसका मकबरा बना कर वहां सजदा न करने लगे। बड़े विस्तार से यह डॉक्यूमैंट्री अमेरिकी खुफिया विभाग के लोगों, सैन्य अफसरों व उन लोगों से मिलवाती है जिन्होंने फूंक-फूंक कर कदम रखते हुए दस साल लंबा समय लगा कर यह पाया कि ओसामा कहां है, उसे कैसे घेरा और गिराया जाएगा।

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Netflix series could lowkey be a CIA-funded propaganda piece, but it’s undeniably thrilling

FCG Member Reviewer Rohan Naahar
Rohan Naahar | The Indian Express, Secretary FCG
Sat, May 17 2025

The three-episode Netflix documentary features a host of high-ranking CIA officials, and also Robert O’Neill, the Navy SEAL who has controversially claimed to have killed bin Laden.

Every single high-ranking official who appears in American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden — and there certainly is a murderer’s row of them — knows that they are in a Netflix documentary. They’re prone to speaking in blurbs; in declarations and pronouncements, almost as if they want to make sure that they make the cut. The sprawling three-episode series, which was suspiciously released two months after it was supposed to, traces the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden, the notorious Al Qaeda leader who remained, for a long period of time, the most wanted man in the world. At the peak of America’s war on terror, there was a $25 million price on his head. Bin Laden kept taunting the Americans for years, somehow evading capture despite having being driven out of his stronghold in Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks. The documentary series begins on the fateful day when two passenger airliners crashed into the World Trade Centre, while another hit the Pentagon. A fourth plane, United 93, crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers overpowered the hijackers and took control of the cockpit. It was the worst terrorist attack in modern history, resulting in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. President George W. Bush vowed to bring those responsible to justice, and essentially gave the Central Intelligence Agency carte blanche to capture or kill bin Laden.

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