Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden

“As the al-Qaida terrorists charged one wall three Green Berets leaned over the parapets oblivious to the enemy small-arms fire that was cracking by their heads and shoulders. Focus squeeze focus squeeze they recited quietly…Each time …the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air and drop onto the sandy courtyard.” The war in Afghanistan was the one of the most secret conflicts in recent history; thousands of journalists covered it yet ironically little is known about how it was waged or what really happened – until now.”Task Force Dagger: the Hunt for Bin Laden” plunges the reader into Americas War on Terror from the first top-secret meetings of the Task Force in Tampa on the afternoon of September 11 2001 through to the liberation of Kabul sixty-two days later and the tragedies of Operation Anaconda – as seen through the eyes of the Green Berets on the ground. This is the story of how only a few hundred men operating from a secret Special Forces base changed the course of history in Central Asia and destroyed a hundred-thousand-man terrorist army in less than ninety days. For this British edition the author Robin Moore has added a unique account of the SAS major contribution to this extraordinary campaign.