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    Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man
    Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man
    Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man
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    Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man

    Written by Dalton Fury

    Narrated by David Drummond

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    The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world-a mission important enough it couldn't be handled by just any American military or intelligence force. This was a mission of international importance, and the best America had to offer was needed. As such, the task was handed to roughly forty members of America's supersecret counterterrorist unit-an elite and mysterious unit known as Delta Force.
    These Delta warriors had help, about as good a help as you can get. The CIA, a dozen of the British Queen's elite commandos, and another dozen or so Army Green Berets stepped up. This team waged a modern-day siege of epic proportions against Osama bin Laden and his seemingly impenetrable cave sanctuary burrowed deep inside the Spin Ghar Mountain range.

    Over the years since the battle ended, scores of news stories have surfaced offering tidbits of information about what actually happened in Tora Bora. Most of it is conjecture and speculation. Kill Bin Laden is the first ever accurate, firsthand account of this battle and an inside look at the extraordinary nature of Delta Force and how they operate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 24, 2008
    ISBN9781400179695
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    Dalton Fury

    DALTON FURY was the senior ranking military officer at the Battle of Tora Bora. As a Delta troop commander he led ninety-one other Western special operations commandos and support personnel and helped author the operation to hunt and kill bin Laden. He told his tale of that mission in the book, Kill Bin Laden, which went on to become a national bestseller. Dalton Fury passed away in 2016.

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    • 2/5
      Much of the content of the book was redundant and in my opinion the title was clearly misleading.
    • 4/5
      i enjoyed this book.

      a (true) behind-the-scenes look at a tier-one unit like delta force is a rare, and i was immediately drawn to the book for that purpose. the author mentions in the first chapter his desire to “set the record straight” about what happened at Tora Bora, and what delta force was up to in the months immediately after 9/11. i’m sure you’d be hard pressed to find a better source than the ground force commander at the battle, and he offers great background and context for the unit he was in and the greater afghan conflict at large.

      however this book draaaaaggggged on and on at times - i suspect the author had to beef up his book, since a majority of what happened / details are still classified. as a result, i was bored out of my gourd hearing a minute-by-minute account of his interactions with a local afghan warlord for what felt like a quarter of the book.

      i loved hearing the lesser-known delta details, like training missions, life at the delta compound, and the authors experience going undercover to track down war criminals in the balkans. a good listen for sure.
    • 4/5
      Let me first say, I really enjoy Dalton Fury's books, but this one took some perseverance, to finish. He definitely captured the essence, of the futility Delta Force, had to contend with, trying to find, capture or kill Usama bin Laden. Delta Force is an elite fighting force. Trained to execute a mission under any conditions. This book is about the mission in Afghanistan's snowed-covered Tora Bora Mountains, in Dec 2001, only three months after America was attacked on Sept 11. They were forced Into a supporting role with the Afghan mujahideen. The arduous conditions and magnitude of trying to support themselves in the mountains is a feat in itself. I think the story could have been told in a lot less pages. Give it a try and read for yourself what it was like.
    • 3/5
      Written by a recent Delta retiree, the book was constructed to document efforts to find and kill Usama bin Laden. It was written prior to the actual killing of UBL by Navy SEALs and from the author's perspective, that of a tactical operator. Sometimes he besmirched decisions made above his pay grade--typical for someone who's not been to high levels of command. Sometimes, the action gets very, very tactical...to me that's boring. He obviously loved his job and those with whom he fought for his country; thus the book.
    • 5/5
      It is not too often that a member of Delta comes out with a "tell all" recounting of a particular operation. However, this is one where it provides significant value-added to the body of work on what really happened at Tora Bora, in the mountains of Afghanistan.Dalton Fury, writing under a pseudonym, is a recently retired member of Delta, and offered this account after he felt the story had not been truly articulated to the public, and moreover to give proper credence to the herculean effort that Delta, US Special Forces and others underwent, and almost succeeded in capturing/killing Bin Laden.Of interest is the close cooperation/lack of cooperation the mujahedin provided in the effort, and the constraints that were placed on the US special operators during the struggle. The author rightly suggests that it is highly likely that the Afghan fighters were complicit in allowing UBL to escape. What we dont know however, is how close Delta came in killing Bin Laden. What is known, and Fury does a great job of recounting the battle, is Delta operated under horrible conditions, in terrain not well suited for any type of protracted combat, but yet still managed to inflict significant casualties on Al Qaida, and if the story is true, prompted Bin Laden to allow his forces to surrender.Stories like these are not often told so close to the actual event, which is too bad, because these types of stories need to provide some context to the reporting from safe distances, which often dont capture the true essence of the actions. A great read, and a valuable addition to the complex story of the early days of US operations in Afghanistan.