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Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man By Dalton Fury St. Martin's Press; 320 pages...
...Gist: In a rare and personal report on the much-speculated-upon Battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, former Delta Force commander Dalton Fury attempts to lay to rest the inconsistencies, inaccuracies and falsities which he says were perpetuated amid the hunt for Osama bin Laden in December 2001. Fury blames an "excitement-starved general public," a clueless intelligence community, an even more clueless press corps and the need to keep Delta Force operations classified for a misguided account of the operation that he calls "fantastic and exciting stuff, but utter hogwash...
...thick mustaches or goatees. The mystery men grabbed small black bags from the truck, walked on to the plane, and took seats on the cold metal flooring without a word, a gesture, or even a simple hello. They didn't check in with anyone. ... It was my introduction to Delta...
...planned our sneak attack. We envisioned ourselves as Fred and Velma (with better outfits, of course) infiltrating Whitman’s Fugitive Poetics and Alpha Delta Phi undercover...
...whitman” would face competition from another group recruiting high-brow henchmen. Alpha Delta Phi, again at large in Cambridge after disappearing for nearly half a century, was also looking for new members. Their mysterious posters sprung up on campus, tempting worthy undergraduates with a “literary society” whose illustrious members included none other than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, graduate of the class of 1880, who is also a former Crimson president...