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Author Mark Bowden Discusses Lastest Book On Bin Laden

By KYW Special Contributor Larry Kane

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - For the first time, a real account of the years of planning and night of anguish that marked the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Best selling author mark Bowden of "Black Hawk Down," has done it again with access to the President and the CIA.

Bowden has written; "The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden" with some real surprises. He says the president anguished over the decision.

Bowden, who lives in our region, tells the inside story of how the raid was planned. He cites the famous picture of the president and his staff watching from the situation room. And says the photo was not of what you think.

Listen to extended interview:

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