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
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
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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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| 0:45.8 | I'm John Dachel with the author Liza Mundy, her new book, |
| 0:48.8 | The Sisterhood, The Secret History of Women at the CIA, |
| 0:52.9 | following the attack on Washington and New York, |
| 0:55.9 | the Afghanistan War, following the Afghanistan war, the Iraq War. |
| 0:57.6 | It's now 2009 at a CIA station, advanced station in cost, the province of Afghanistan. |
| 1:09.8 | One of the CTC women is present as station chief. |
| 1:14.3 | Her name is Matthews. |
| 1:15.9 | And what's about to happen is both tragic and inspiration for the pursuit of bin Laden. |
| 1:24.1 | What is Coast Station? |
| 1:27.1 | Why does the CIA run that station inside a country that's occupied by American forces? |
| 1:33.8 | Well, they're providing targeting information for drone attacks into Pakistan, |
| 1:40.0 | because just as you say, we're in a period now where the terrorists have fanned out all over the world. |
| 1:46.3 | Terrorism has multiplied and changed form. |
| 1:51.3 | The war in Iraq has led to the rise of ISIS. |
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