Kill Bin Laden

Another book I picked off the "librarian's selections" at our local library. It's an account, by the commander of the elite Delta Force unit, of their mission to find and kill bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountains during a few days in December of 2001. Not my usual reading fare, and filled with tough guy talk that didn't appeal to me, this nevertheless gives great insights into the capabilities, and personalities, of the most highly trained and extraordinarily impressive special forces units. According to this account, they nearly had him - thought they might have had him - and only found out much later that their mission had failed, in terms of its specific objective, although the author (the pseudonymous "Dalton Fury") argues persuasively that killing large numbers of al Qaeda soldiers and driving bin laden from Afghanistan were major successes. Interesting read.