In 2006, for example, a Navy Seal team raided a suspected militants' compound in the Bajaur region of Pakistan, according to a former top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Officials watched the entire mission — captured by the video camera of a remotely piloted Predator aircraft — in real time in the CIA's Counterterrorist Center at the agency's headquarters in Virginia 7,000 miles away.Told ja? I didn't get every particular right, but I did get the story more than two years before the International Herald Tribune. It was obvious reading between the lines that we were very active militarily in Pakistan. Only Bush had the common sense not to announce it, unlike some folks I could name.
As long as we're talking special ops, read this great account of a Navy Seal rescue of a kidnapped American businessman. Don't miss it, because....
This is the story of one of the most daring and successful U.S. hostage-rescue missions in years.
