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...experienced commander. But a recently published book about the operation, written by respected US Army Times journalist Sean Naylor, has suggested the target was Al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's personal physician and al-Qaeda's second in command. The overall commander of the operation, Major General Franklin "Buster" Hagenbeck, recently told Time he believed the high-value target had been destroyed...
...likely to involve small bands of soldiers taking on cells of terrorists in a slow, steady war of attrition. Many, perhaps most, of the bad guys are now in Pakistan and are unlikely to congregate in large numbers again. "Every operation is a combat operation," says Major General Franklin Hagenbeck, the U.S. commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan. "We're here to find them and destroy them...
...just after officials announced the successful end of a 17-day operation against al-Qaeda and Taliban forces - prompted a rethink of the U.S. military campaign. Although it was not clear who was responsible for the attack, which killed three Afghan soldiers and wounded one American, U.S. commander Frank Hagenbeck said al-Qaeda forces might have to be pursued across the Pakistan border. Britain agreed to supply up to 1,700 troops in addition to its peacekeeping force in Kabul...
...Rangers radioed Bagram for permission to go after their man. Hagenbeck agreed, and the undamaged Chinook dropped off six commandos to search for Roberts; then both helicopters returned to base. Unmanned surveillance aircraft searched for the missing man and found him moving across the valley. Images beamed from the drones to video monitors at Bagram showed three men approaching Roberts. They were at first thought to be friendly. Then Roberts was seen trying to flee. About three hours after the first incident, two more Chinooks set off from Bagram on a dual mission: to rescue Roberts and to insert more...
...10th Mountain Division, he said, "This is your climb to glory." The helicopters took off and flew south. The division, heading for battle position Eve, attacked the villages of Sarkhankhel, Marzak and Babakul, taking al-Qaeda by surprise. "The bad guys were drinking tea when we arrived," says Hagenbeck. "Our snipers," says one soldier, "whacked a whole lot of people...