| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 225 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-211). |
| Summary |
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 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
United States. Navy. SEALs.
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Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011 -- Death and burial.
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Jihad.
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Terrorists.
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Terrorism.
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Abbottābād (Pakistan)
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Qaida (Organization)
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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Islamic fundamentalism.
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| ISBN |
125000635X |
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9781250006356 |
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