Kill Bin Laden: a Delta Force Commander's account of the hunt for the world's most wanted man (61 page)

Delphi method, Delta Force

Delta Force.
See also
Tora Bora, Battle of (Afghanistan)

activities of

Afghanistan mission

Ahmed, Gul mission

air force special tactics combat control

Ali, Hazret (warlord)

Balkan operations

beards

bin Laden, Usama

capability exercises (CAPEXs)

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

conditioning exercises

Dailey, Dell

deployment decisions

equipment of

evaluation for potential service process

frustration in

Fury, Dalton (Redfly)

Iran hostage crisis

Iraq War

life and death decision

media

members of

mujahideen

Murdock, Gus

observation posts

officers of

Omar, Mullah Muhammad, raid on

organizational model

planning by

popularity of

qualifications for, ix

readiness of

reconnaissance

secrecy and

selection and assessment process in

Shelter Now International hostage crisis

snipers

Sudan

supply problems

tactics of

Tora Bora, Battle of

training for

uniform of

urban reconnaissance

Delta Force
(Beckwith)

desert camouflage fatigues

Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991)

The Devil’s Dictionary
(Bierce)

Downing, Wayne

driving skills

drug kingpins

DShK-38 12.7mm heavy machine guns and 82mm mortar tubes

Dugan (sniper)

Durant, Mike

Du-Saraka, Afghanistan

ear protection

Eastern Alliance Opposition Group

organization of

supplies for

Egypt

Eliot, T. S.

Engagement Zones (EZ), Tora Bora, Battle of

escape, of bin Laden, Usama

Escobar, Pablo

espionage.
See also
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); intelligence

Ahmed, Gul mission

language skills

Euripides

evaluation for potential service process, Delta Force

Farsi

F-18 aircraft

First In
(Shroen) 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment (Delta Force).
See
Delta Force

flash-bang stun grenades

flex cuffs

Floyd, Brandon

food tasting

Fort Belvoir, Virginia

Fort Benning, Georgia

Fort Bragg, North Carolina

France

Frankfurt, Germany

friendly fire

bombing

mujahideen

Tora Bora, Battle of

uniforms

Fury, Dalton (Redfly)

Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord)

army enlistment

Balkan operations

childhood of

Delta Force

education

leadership

promotion of

Fusion Cell

Garmin global positioning system

GATOR mines

Genghis Khan (Mongol emperor)

George (CIA agent)

Gere, Richard

Germany

Ghulbihar (aide)

global positioning system (GPS).
See also
specific systems

GlobalStar satellite telephone

Globemaster (aircraft)

Glock sidearm

Gordon, Michael

Green Berets

Afghanistan operations

Ali, Hazret (warlord)

Balkan operations

Delta Force

mujahideen

Spin Ghar Mountains (Afghanistan)

terminal guidance operations

Tora Bora, Battle of

uniforms

Grenada, United States invasion of

grenades

Grinch (Jim).
See
Jim (MSS Grinch)

Grinch (Jim), Ahmed, Gul operation

Gritz, James “Bo,” 30–31

Guantánamo Bay, Cuba

Haji Musa

Haney, Eric

Hard Rock Café (Washington, D. C.)

Harrell, Gary

hashish

Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin

helicopters

bin Laden, Usama escape

evacuation

landing zones for

MH-47 Chinook helicopter

Soviet Union

supply problems

Tora Bora Mountains

helmets

Herodotus

Hezb-e-Islami (militant group)

Hindu Kush Mountains (Afghanistan)

H&K G3 assault rifle

HOLOsights

Hopper (recce team leader)

Horrigan knives

Hot Wash

Howe, Paul

HUMINT.
See also
actionable intelligence; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); intelligence

Ahmed, Gul

bin Laden, Usama

Hung Ho
magazine

Hunt, David, ix–x

The Hunt for Bin Laden
(Moore)

Hunting the Jackal
(Waugh)

Hussein, Saddam

Hutmacher, Clay

improvised explosive devices (IEDs)

India Team

infrared pointers

Inside Delta Force
(Haney)

intelligence.
See also
actionable intelligence; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); HUMINT

actionable

Afghanistan mission

al Qaeda

bin Laden, Usama

British

espionage

proactive military stance

Shelter Now International hostage crisis

Tora Bora Mountains, Afghanistan

war criminals

weapons of mass destruction

Zawahiri, Ayman al-

intermediate staging base (ISB), Afghanistan

mission

Inter-Service Intelligence (Pakistan)

In the Company of Heroes
(Durant)

IPTAL infrared laser

Iran hostage crisis

Iraq War

Delta Force

Haditha Dam raid

media

Murdock, Gus

proactive military stance

Silver Stars

Ironhead (squadron sergeant major)

Israel

Izlid infrared marking laser

Jackal Team

Jalalabad, Afghanistan

Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord)

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

journey to

policing of

Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)

Jawbreaker
(Berntsen).
See also
Team Jawbreaker Juliet (CIA point group)

Jay-C

JDAMs

Jester (sniper)

Jim (MSS Grinch)

Johnson, Billy “White Shoes,” 31

Joint Commission Observer teams, Balkan

operations

Joint Intelligence Agency Task Force

Joint Interrogation Facility (Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan)

Joint Operations Command (JOC)

Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)

(Advance Force Operations)

Joint Special Operations Task Force

Jordan

Kabul, Afghanistan

Central Intelligence Agency

Shelter Now International hostage crisis

Kandahar, Afghanistan

Kandahar, Afghanistan airport

Karzai, Hamid

Kevlar helmets

Khan, Adam (CIA agent)

Khost, Afghanistan

Khyber Pass (Afghanistan)

Killer Elite
(Smith)

Kilo Team

Kipling, Rudyard

Kolokhel, Afghanistan

Lamb, Christopher

Lamb, Kyle

language skills.
See also
specific languages

Central Intelligence Agency

Delta Force

espionage

intelligence

Russian

Laos, prisoners of war

last will and testament, of bin Laden, Usama

leadership

Delta Force

Fury, Dalton (Redfly)

Leebaert, Derek

Leonidas (king of Sparta)

life and death decision

Delta Force

proactive military stance

London
Spectator
(English newspaper)

MacDill Air Force Base (Hillsborough County, Florida)

The Man Who Would Be King
(Kipling)

map case

maps

Hindu Kush Mountains (Afghanistan)

inadequacy of

mujahideen

reconnaissance

Tora Bora, Battle of

Marine Corps (U.S.)

Martinet, Jean

Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan

MC-130 Combat Talon aircraft

Meadows, Dick

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

media

Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord)

bin Laden, Usama

BLU-82 bomb (Daisy Cutter)

Delta Force

Iraq War

Press Pool Ridge

Tora Bora, Battle of

Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)

medical kits

M-4 assault rifles

MH-47 Chinook helicopter

MIG fighter aircraft

MilCAM Recon thermal sight

military establishment.
See also
bureaucracy; politics

army

Delta Force deployment

proactive stance

mini video camera, espionage

Minutemen (U.S. revolutionary war)

MK-82 bomb

MK-7 laser range finder

M-1911 sidearm

mobile support site (MSS)

Modelo Prison (Panama City, Panama)

Mogadishu, Somalia

Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh

money, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Monkey.
See
Bryan (code named B-Monkey)

Moore, Robin

Mosul, Iraq

MP5 submachine gun

M-72 LAW rockets

M-16 rifle

MSS Monkey.
See
Bryan (code named B-Monkey)

M-240 machine guns

M-249 squad automatic weapons

Muhammad (prophet)

mujahideen.
See also
Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord); Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)

Afghanistan mission

al Qaeda prisoners

bin Laden, Usama

BLU-82 bomb (Daisy Cutter)

combat practices

Delta Force

friendly fire

Green Berets

Mulholland, John

night vision goggles (NVGs)

politics

Ramadan

Soviet Union and

supplies for

Taliban

tanks

Tora Bora, Battle of

Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)

Mulholland, John

Murdock, Gus

Muse, Kurt

Musharraf, Pervez

Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan

bin Laden, Usama

Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)

National Guard

National Security Strategy
(report)

Native Americans

Navy SEALs

Naylor, Sean

Newsweek
magazine

Night Stalkers
(Durant)

night vision goggles (NVGs)

9/11 terrorist attacks

Northern Advance Force Operations (NAFO)

Northern Alliance

checkpoints

Kabul, Afghanistan

Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan

supplies for

Taliban

Northwest Frontier Province (Pakistan)

Not a Good Day to Die
(Naylor)

Nuristan Province, Afghanistan

observation posts

al Qaeda

Delta Force

Tora Bora, Battle of (Afghanistan)

Omar, Mullah Muhammad

Delta Force raid on

hunt for

intelligence on

101st Airborne Division

173rd Airborne Combat Brigade

The One Percent Solution
(Suskind)

Operation Acid Gambit

Operation Eagle Claw (Iran hostage crisis)

Operation Enduring Freedom

Operation Iraqi Freedom.
See also
Iraq War

opium farming

ordnance, unexploded

organizational model, Delta Force

The Osama Bin Laden I Know
(Bergen)

Pachier Agam, Afghanistan

Pakistan

Afghanistan border

bin Laden, Usama

Intelligence Service

Tora Bora, Battle of

Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)

Pakistan Intelligence Service (ISI)

Panama, United States invasion of

Pashto language

Pashtuns, Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji

Peltor ear protection

Pentagon (Washington, D.C.)

Persian Gulf War (1990-1991)

PKM machine guns

Playboy
magazine

politics.
See also
bureaucracy; military establishment

Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord)

bureaucracy

Delta Force deployment

mujahideen

Pope (recce team leader)

PRC-D radio

Predator (drone aircraft)

Shelter Now International hostage crisis

Tora Bora, Battle of

Press Pool Ridge (Tora Bora Mountains,

Afghanistan)

prisoners of war, Laos

proactive military stance

problem-solving, Delta Force

public speaking, Delta Force

Qadir, Haji

quick-reaction force (QRF)

Afghanistan

Tora Bora, Battle of

Ramadan

RAND Corporation, Delphi method

Rangers

Afghanistan mission

Delta Force

Haditha Dam raid

quick-reaction force (QRF)

supply problems

reconnaissance, Delta Force.
See also
observation posts

Red Army Faction (Germany)

Redfly.
See
Fury, Dalton (Redfly)

reward, bin Laden, Usama

risk avoidance, Delta Force deployment

risk taking

Rivera, Geraldo

roadblocks, Ahmed, Gul mission

RPGs

Afghanistan operations

al Qaeda

mujahideen

Tora Bora, Battle of

Rumsfeld, Donald

Russian language skills

safety vests

SAM missiles

SAS.
See
Special Air Service (SAS) commandos (U.K.)

SA-7 SAM rockets

Saudi Arabia

SBS.
See
British SBS commandos; British Special Boat Service; Special Boat Service

Schwitters, Jim

Scrawny (sniper)

Searcy, Brian

security industry, Delta Force

selection process, Delta Force