Seal Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden - Hardcover

Chuck Pfarrer

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9781780874715: Seal Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden

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ISBN 10: 1780874715 ISBN 13: 9781780874715

Publisher: Quercus, 2011

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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. This 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. 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. Pfarrer takes readers inside the operation as the SEALs flew over the wall of Bin Laden's shabby compound and then penetrated deeper and deeper into the terrorist's lair, telling us just what it looked, sounded, and smelled like in that sweltering Pakistani suburb. He takes us to 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 valour, clockwork military precision, and deadly accuracy carried out by one of the most elite fighting forces 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.