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Inside a U.S. hostage rescue mission - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports

Betsy's Page found this 11/11/2008 on armytimes.com

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 ...