TY - BOOK ID - 77913390 TI - Al Qaeda's great escape : the military and the media on terror's trail PY - 2004 SN - 1612342515 9781612342511 1574886290 9781574886290 1574886282 9781574886283 PB - Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books Inc., DB - UniCat KW - War correspondents KW - Correspondents, War KW - Journalists KW - Reporters and reporting KW - Bin Laden, Osama, KW - Ibn Lādin, Usāmah, KW - Bin Lādin, Usāmah bin Muḥammad, KW - Bin Laden, Usmana, KW - Bin Lādin, Usāmah, KW - Bin Laden, Usama, KW - Osama bin Laden, KW - Usama bin Laden, KW - Bin Laden, Osmana, KW - Shaykh Osma Bin Laden, KW - Bin Laden, Osama Bin Muhammad, KW - Osama Bin Muhammad Bin Laden, KW - Ben Laden, Oussama, KW - Abū ʻAbd Allāh Usāmah ibn Lādin, KW - Usāmah ibn Lādin Abū ʻAbd Allāh, KW - Usama ben Mukhammad ben Avad ben Laden, KW - Ben Laden, Usama ben Mukhammad ben Avad, KW - Bin Ladden, Usama, KW - Ben Laden, Osama, KW - Osama ben Laden, KW - Pin̲lēṭan̲, Ocāmā, KW - Ocāmā Pin̲lēṭan̲, KW - Pin̲ Lāṭan̲, Ōsāmā, KW - Ōsāmā Pin̲ Lāṭan̲, KW - Laden, Osama Bin, KW - Bin Ladan, KW - ابن لادن، أسامة، KW - بن لادن، أسامة KW - بن لادن، اسامة، KW - بن لادن، اسامه KW - Osama Laden, KW - Syeikh Osama bin Laden, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77913390 AB - Details how Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda fighters slipped out of Afghanistan during the battles of Tora Bora and Operation Anaconda. The author also charges that Western media outlets, eager to satisfy their audience's thirst for revenge, lost their grasp on journalistic objectivity while covering bin Laden's pursuit. Blinding patriotism and reliance on Pentagon press releases led them to portray events not reflecting reality on the ground. He contends that to satisfy the press and the public's need for vengeance, the Bush administration pushed to achieve early, highly visible successes ER -