By Tom Leonard PUBLISHED: 20:04 EST, 12 December 2012 | UPDATED: 09:35 EST, 13 December 2012 With its low-flying helicopters slipping under the radar into Pakistan and special forces commandos leaping into the dark compound below, last year’s stunning operation to kill Osama Bin Laden was a Boy’s Own drama that had old-fashioned machismo written all over it. The reality of America’s battle against terrorism, it seemed, couldn’t have been more different to the glamorised, politically-correct fiction of Homeland, the hit TV show in which Claire Danes plays a beautiful CIA agent who spots the Al Qaeda plot which her misguided male colleagues have missed.
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Upcoming film Zero Dark Thirty claims that Bin Laden might not have been found if not for a young female CIA analyst
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She devoted the best part of a decade to finding the terrorist
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According to colleagues, she was one of the first to advance the theory that the key to finding Bin Laden was in Al Qaeda's courier network
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