S8 Ep736: 7. THE KHOST TRAGEDY AND THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN Guest Mundy: Guest Mundy chronicles the 2009 suicide bombing at Khost Station that killed targeting pioneer Jennifer Matthews,. This tragedy regalvanized the hunt for Bin Laden, leading analysts like "Rachel

7. THE KHOST TRAGEDY AND THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN Guest Mundy: Guest Mundy chronicles the 2009 suicide bombing at Khost Station that killed targeting pioneer Jennifer Matthews,. This tragedy regalvanized the hunt for Bin Laden, leading analysts like "Rachel" and "Maya" to sift through decades of old data to identify his courier,. By tracing human networks and "The Pacer," these women located the Abbottabad compound without using electronic intercepts. Mundy notes that ground-level analysts were nearly 100% confident in their intelligence, even as senior operational leaders hesitated, fearing another institutional failure like the Iraq War’s weapons of mass destruction debacle. (8)

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