Manhunt: From Saddam to bin Laden

New America Foundation

A Future Tense Event from Slate Magazine and the New America Foundation
Manhunt: From Saddam to bin Laden

What Social Networks Mean for Modern Warfare

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.

Featured Speakers
Chris Wilson
Associate Editor, Slate magazine

“Matthew Alexander” (a pseudonym)
Air Force interrogator involved in the hunt for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Scott Helfstein, PhD
Associate, Combating Terrorism Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences
United States Military Academy

Moderator
Peter Bergen
Co-Director, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative
New America Foundation

To RSVP for the event, click on the red button or go to the event page:
http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/searching_for_saddam

For questions, contact Stephanie Gunter at (202) 596-3367 or gunter@newamerica.net.

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