On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault element commander of SEAL Team Six. After talking to members of the SEAL team involved in the raid, Pfarrer shares never-before-revealed details of the historic raid and the men who planned and conducted it in an exclusive boots-on-the-ground account of what happened during each minute of the mission--both inside the building and outside.
Record details
ISBN:9781250006356
ISBN:125000635X
Physical Description:print x, 225 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
Neptune's spear: the bigger picture -- Abbottabad: May 1, 2011: late that night -- The SEAL road to Abbottabad. Men with green faces -- An invisible empire: the birth of the Joint Special Operations Common -- Team Jedi -- Going solo -- Maersk Alabama -- Bin Laden's road to Abbottabad. The day the world changed: September 11, 2001 -- Rich kid -- Learning to hate -- The making of a jihadi -- Hero of the lion's den -- The Emir -- Weapons of mass denial -- Neptune's spear. Continue to plan, plan to continue -- The man without a country -- Neptune's spear -- Thirty-eight minutes -- What came after -- How this book was written.
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