The al Qaeda Files: Bin Laden Documents Reveal a Struggling Organization
Terror leader's last years were focused on palm oil cultivation, climate change, and how to kill Americans more effectively.
Ryan Devereaux
Ryan Devereaux is an award-winning investigative journalist and Type Media Center fellow covering immigration enforcement, national security and the environment.
He was a lead reporter on The Intercept’s award-winning series “The Drone Papers,” and winner of the 2017 Online Journalism Award for best feature writing for a small newsroom. In 2020, Devereaux received the Deadline Club’s top prize for feature reporting for “Bodies in the Borderlands,” a yearlong investigation into the criminalization of humanitarian aid in the Sonoran Desert, and in 2023 he shared an Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting for his coverage of Arizona’s illegal dumping of shipping containers as an ad hoc border barrier on protected public lands. He has reported extensively on the drug war in Mexico, the war on terror, and the Department of Homeland Security. Prior to The Intercept, Devereaux worked at The Guardian US covering policing in New York City.
His forthcoming book, “The Hunt: A True Story of Resurrection and Retribution in the West,” from Avid Reader Press, will be published in 2026. He is based in Tucson, Arizona.
He was a lead reporter on The Intercept’s award-winning series “The Drone Papers,” and winner of the 2017 Online Journalism Award for best feature writing for a small newsroom. In 2020, Devereaux received the Deadline Club’s top prize for feature reporting for “Bodies in the Borderlands,” a yearlong investigation into the criminalization of humanitarian aid in the Sonoran Desert, and in 2023 he shared an Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting for his coverage of Arizona’s illegal dumping of shipping containers as an ad hoc border barrier on protected public lands. He has reported extensively on the drug war in Mexico, the war on terror, and the Department of Homeland Security. Prior to The Intercept, Devereaux worked at The Guardian US covering policing in New York City.
His forthcoming book, “The Hunt: A True Story of Resurrection and Retribution in the West,” from Avid Reader Press, will be published in 2026. He is based in Tucson, Arizona.
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