armytimes.com - 11/11/2008
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The American businessman lay shackled in a mud hut 8,000 feet up a remote mountain in Afghanistan, armed captors posted inside and outside to prevent any escape attempt. Earlier in his captivity, he had made a run for it, but — barefoot and much older than the insurgents who held him — he was ...
navytimes.com - 11/10/2008
mypetjawa.mu.nu - 11/10/2008
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mypetjawa.mu.nu —
Via the Navy Times. Fascinating article, read the
whole thing. Here's a tease: The special operators see
the Oct. 15 rescue differently. To them, the fact that U.S. forces were able to rescue an American hostage from a location where...
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Anatomy Of A Hostage Rescue
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Rescuing a hostage in Afghanistan
Betsy's Page —
... links to this great story about a special operations rescue of an American businessman who had been kidnapped in Afghanistan. The details read like a movie script. Read the whole thing, but here's the outcome. Nevertheless, âThey knew who was who,â the engineer said. the SEALs quickly demonstrated that, aiming their silencer-equipped weapons to shoot and kill the kidnapper in the room before he could fire a round. The engineer said he heard the sounds of the operators shooting and killing a guard posted outside. The SEALs turned to the now former hostage and told him ...
Dissecting Leftism —
... A brilliant American military rescue that the media have "overlooked": "The American businessman lay shackled in a mud hut 8,000 feet up a remote mountain in Afghanistan, armed captors posted inside and outside to prevent any escape attempt... he said. "In my mind I'd given a military intervention a one out of a hundred chance. Not that they couldn't do it, but they're busy and I'm not that important a fellow." On an airstrip many miles away, however, several twin sets of Chinook helicopter rotor blades were starting to turn as about 60 of America's most elite troops prepared ...
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