The hunt for Bin Laden : Task Force Dagger / Robin Moore.
Material type: TextLanguage: Publication details: New York : Random House, c2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxiv, 456 p., [16] p. plates : col. ill., maps ; 18cmISBN:- 330419900
- HV 6432 .M66 2003
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | HV 6432 .M66 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 16798 |
“The inside story of special operation forces in the war on Terror”
“Includes bibliography”—(p. 443-451).
Summary: As the [al-Qaida terrorists] charged one wall, three green berets leaned over the parapets, oblivious to the enemy small-arms fire that was cracking by their heads and shoulders. ‘Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze,’ they recited quietly… Each time… the lifeless body [of an al-Qaida terrorist] would snap back through the desert air and drop onto the sandy courtyard.
The war in Afghanistan was the most secret conflict since the CIA’s covert war in Laos; thousands of journalists covered it, yet little is known about how it was waged or what really happened – until now”—back cover.