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Seymour Myron Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War , for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting .
Davies did not pursue the case, and Maxwell died the following month. In August 1994 the Mirror Group settled Maxwell's suit by paying Hersh and Faber & Faber damages, covering their legal costs, and issuing a formal apology to Hersh. [18] Two British MPs asked for further investigations into the book's revelations.
Pakistani officials were aware of the raid, and assisted the U.S. in carrying it out. According to Hersh, bin Laden was basically an invalid. [250] Hersh's U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources stated that the U.S. had learned of bin Laden's location through a Pakistani walk-in seeking the $25 million reward, and not through tracking a courier.
Immediately, several agents ran onto the roof to assess damage and help the wounded. At the same time, a JSOC operator was using a hand-held device displaying images from a Predator drone above, which had been sent by the DOD's US Africa Command after request. The defenders agreed to evacuate to the airport and were attacked with small arms ...
In April 2014, Seymour Hersh wrote an essay published in the London Review of Books which does not mention Timber Sycamore but which describes an anonymous former senior US intelligence official's claims that the U.S. diplomatic post in Libya's Benghazi "had no real political role" and existed solely to provide cover for a secret arms pipeline ...
Seymour Hersh (born 1937) – American investigative journalist and political writer; Tessy Igomu – Nigerian journalist and head of Investigation at The Punch newspaper; Bob Woodward (born 1943) – American journalist most famous for reporting on the Watergate scandal at the Washington Post, (where he is now associate editor)
In 1991, American investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning political writer Seymour Hersh authored the book Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy. [18] In the preface of the book he writes: "This is a book about how Israel became a nuclear power in secret.
Seymour Hersh writes that, according to an unnamed Pentagon adviser, "[OSP] was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, wanted to be true—that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons ...