Hunting Osama: interview with Mark Bowden. The author of Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo says that American special forces have been training to go after bin Laden for years and are more than ready. And more on the shadowy world of special operations. This article suggests that our successful campaign against Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, about which Bowden wrote in his latter book, may be the clearest model for chasing down the terrorist perpetrators. Salon