SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden - Softcover

Pfarrer, Chuck

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250014719 ISBN 13: 9781250014719

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2012

Synopsis

The controversial New York Times bestseller that tells the "engrossing account of the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden." ―Kirkus Reviews (starred)

On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. a satellite uplink was sent from Pakistan crackling into the situation room of the White House: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, ended Osama bin Laden's reign of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Neptune's Spear from the men who were there. After talking to members of the SEAL team involved in the raid, Pfarrer shares never-before-revealed details in an exclusive account of what happened as he takes readers inside the walls of Bin Laden's compound penetrating deep into the terrorist's lair to reach the exact spot where the Al Qaeda leader was cowering when the bullet entered his head. SEAL Target Geronimo is an explosive story of unparalleled valor and clockwork military precision carried out by the most elite fighting force in the world―the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six.

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From the Author

THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE SEAL  TEAM SIX OPERATION IN ABBOTTABAD
 
NEW IN THE PAPERBACK EDITION
 
Three new chapters of Information from newly declassified documents captured in the raid as well as a blockbuster independent investigation conducted by Pakistani Brigadeer General (Ret) Shukat Qadir, who interviewed military and ISI personnel as well as debriefing eyewitness and undertaking a guided tour of the bin Laden residence hours after the raid. 
 
The new chapters include detailed information on:

• OBL's exact locations for the ten years he was on the run in Pakistan
• The locations of Ayman Zawahiri and Mullah Omar.
• An analysis of declassified papers taken by ST6 from Abbottabad
• Al Qaeda's planned attack on the Pakistani nuclear weapons facility at Kahuta 
• Al Qaeda's plan to use poison gas in Yemen (from a letter dated six days before OBL's death) 
• Information taken from an independent Pakistani investigation of the raid to include previously unknown details of CIA's pre mission reconnaissance
• The code name of Dr. Shekel Afridi's CIA controller and details about the "Hepatitis Screening Program" that eventually located OBL
•  New details about Al Qaeda's kidnapping of an Iranian diplomat to trade for Khairee bin Laden (Wife #1) who was being held in Tehran
• Details of OBLs detailed planning for the transfer of his wife after the prisoner exchange with the Iranians.
• New details on CIA's phone call to the compound two nights before the raid
• Information obtained during Pakistan's nearly year long interrogation of OBL's surviving wives and children
• Information from the Pakistani first responders who entered the compound only minutes after the helicopters had left.
• Connecting the dots on who the US closed in after the arrival of Khairee bin Laden, as well as the capture of Bali Bomber Umer Patik in Abbottabad a mere four months prior to the raid
•  Eye witness testimony about the raid from OBL's widows and Children, as well as Pakistani neighbors who saw the entire raid.
• Confirmation from eye witnesses who saw the helicopter crash in the middle of the operation and not at the beginning.
• Details about Pakistani fighters who were scrambled and nearly shot down the US helicopters as they retreated.
• More details about the "special access granted to Boal and Bigelow--confirmed by Freedom of Information Act requests that show DoD and WH emails confirming that the two SONY Studios filmmakers were give the names of ST6 operators unlawfully. 

And there is more, including information that following the November 2011 "Border Incident" in which US Special Operations Forces killed 20 Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan moved surface to air missiles to the Afghan Border.  The source for this information was Pakistani and all of it has been cross-referenced.  

About the Author

CHUCK PFARRER is a former Navy SEAL whose assignments included stints at Underwater Demolition Team Twenty-one and SEAL Team Four.   He served as a military advisor in Central America, trained NATO forces in Europe and the Mediterranean as well as undertaking duties in the Middle East. Pfarrer ended his service as Assault Element Commander for the Navy's famed SEAL Team SIX.  
 
Pfarrer is an internationally recognized expert on Al Qaeda and the Global Salafist Jihad.   He was the principal author of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Annex to the National Counterterrorism Plan and has lectured widely on Terrorism, Terrorist Methodology and the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.  Pfarrer presently serves as an Associate Editor of The Counterterrorist, The Modern Journal of Counter Terrorism, and he is also a Distinguished Fellow of the US Naval Special Warfare Institute.
 
Pfarrer is the founder and ABI and Desert Cove International, Federally Registered Defense Contractors providing National Security Affairs training. DCI specializes in applications relevant to weapons of mass destruction, international counter-terrorism, special operations, counter-proliferation and domestic preparedness.  ABI and DCI's clients include the Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, as well as other government organizations and agencies.
 
 
Pfarrer is the New York Times Best selling author of SEAL Target Geronimo, the definitive account of SEAL Team Six's Operation Neptune's Spear.   His autobiography, Warrior Soul, The Memoir of a Navy SEAL is a continual Amazon Best Seller.  He is the author of a novel, Killing Che, and the screenwriter for The Jackal, Red Planet, Darkman, and Navy SEALs.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1250014719
• ISBN 13: 9781250014719
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288