Manhunt: From Saddam to bin Laden

Friday, February 26, 2010 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. New America Foundation 1899 L St NW, 4th Floor Washington, DC 20036

In 2003, a team of innovative U.S. soldiers captured Saddam Hussein by using Facebook-style social network theory to crack the network of families protecting him. That success has shaped subsequent efforts in Afghanistan and elsewhere — with decidedly mixed results.

Please join Slate magazine and the New America Foundation on Friday, Feb. 26, for this Future Tense Event.  Slate’s Chris Wilson, New America’s Peter Bergen and others will explore the implications of such social networking for other military operations, and ask why the U.S. hasn’t been able to get Osama Bin Laden using the same methods.

This week, Slate is running a five-part series in which Wilson details the “Search for Saddam” — and outlines many of the issues and questions to be discussed on Friday.  We hope to see you then.

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