Kill or Capture: How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious al Qaeda Terrorist
- ISBN-10
- 0312656874
- ISBN-13
- 9780312656874
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-02-01
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Author
- Matthew Alexander
Description
The electrifying true story of the pursuit for the man behind al Qaeda’s suicide bombing campaign in Iraq Kill or Capture is a true-life thriller that tells the story of senior military interrogator Matthew Alexander’s adrenalinefilled, “outside the wire” pursuit of a notorious Syrian mass murderer named Zafar—the leader of al Qaeda in northern Iraq—a killer with the blood of thousands of innocents on his hands. In a breathless thirty-day period, Alexander and a small Special Operations task force brave the hazards of the Iraqi insurgency to conduct dangerous kill-or-capture missions and hunt down a murderer. Kill or Capture immerses readers in the dangerous world of battlefield interrogations as the author and his team climb the ladder of al Qaeda leadership in a series of raids, braving roadside bombs, near death by electrocution and circles within circles of lies.
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- 2011-02-01
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- 288 pages
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