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SEAL target Geronimo : the inside story of the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden / Chuck Pfarrer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781250006356
  • 125000635X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV6430. B55.
Contents:
Contents: 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 Command—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.
Summary: Summary: On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbott bad 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 and author of the bestselling Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL. 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.
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Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University HV6430.B55.P43 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ACKU000352228
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Contents: 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 Command—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.

Summary: On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbott bad 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 and author of the bestselling Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL. 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.

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