SEAL target Geronimo
Subtitle: the inside story of the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden
By: Chuck Pfarrer
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781250006356
Subjects: Death and burial; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; United States. Navy. SEALs; Qaida (Organization); Islamic fundamentalism; Terrorists; Assassination; United States; Jihad; Terrorism; History
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Neptune's spear: the bigger picture; title: Abbottabad: May 1, 2011: late that night; title: The SEAL road to Abbottabad; title: Men with green faces; title: An invisible empire: the birth of the Joint Special Operations Command; title: Team Jedi; title: Going solo; title: Maersk Alabama; title: Bin Laden's road to Abbottabad; title: The day the world changed: September 11, 2001; title: Rich kid; title: Learning to hate; title: The making of a jihadi; title: Hero of the lion's den; title: The Emir; title: Weapons of mass denial; title: Neptune's spear; title: Continue to plan, plan to continue; title: The man without a country; title: Neptune's spear; title: Thirty-eight minutes; title: What came after; title: How this book was written.