| Summary/Abstract |
My¼rst mission as a paramilitary ocer with the CIA was
against a top-ten al Qaeda
target.Itwas the autumn of2009,and I
had been deployed inmynew job for a
total of two days. But I was no stranger
to Afghanistan, having already fought
there (aswellas in Iraq) as a Marine
Corps ocer over the previous sixyears.
Onthis mission, I was joinedbythe
Afghan counterterrorism unit I advised
and a handful of members from SEAL
TeamSix. Our plan was to conduct a
raid to capture or kill our target, who was
coming across the border from Pakistan
for a meeting in the Korengal Valley.
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