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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
For the first time anywhere comes a firsthand account of the planning and execution of the bin Laden raid by a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group--better known...