“Fucking savages!” Crocker exclaimed, bile rising like he’d been kicked in the stomach.
The man in black hacked off Vogelman’s other ear, then sliced off his tongue.
Crocker wanted to punch something. Anything. The bastards!
“Look,” Akil said.
The bearded man was holding Vogelman’s severed tongue and shaking it at the camera, his eyes red with hatred, rage.
“That’s AZ.”
“Zaman?”
“Abu Rasul Zaman, yes. Number three man in al-Qaeda. The so-called Protector of Islam.”
As Zaman started gouging Vogelman’s left eye out, Crocker groaned, “Turn it off.”
Akil hit a key and the screen went dark.
Soon after Mohammed Saddiq was captured in Italy, he confessed to his role in the U.S. embassy bombing. He said the attack had been planned and ordered by Abu Rasul Zaman.
Crocker growled. “I want that motherfucker…bad!”
“Ssh…”
A passing flight attendant shot Crocker a wary look. He seemed like a friendly, fit man. Had a long, narrow face with prominent cheekbones and chin, big teeth, a salt-and-pepper mustache, short graying hair, a warm smile. He was an outdoorsman of some sort, or maybe a businessman. Now he looked like he wanted to kill someone.
He did.
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Contents
“Bin Laden Killed in Pakistan”
Title Page
Dedication
A Note from the Publisher
Introduction: Virginia, May 1, 2011
Chapter One: Somalia, 1985
Chapter Two: New England, 1970s
Chapter Three: Graduation, 1976
Chapter Five: BUD/S
Chapter Six: Goat Lab
Chapter Seven: SEAL Team One
Chapter Eight: ••••••••••••••
Chapter Nine: SEAL Team Six
Chapter Ten: ST-6/Divorce
Chapter Eleven: Panama
Chapter Twelve: San Blas Island
Chapter Thirteen: El Salvador
Chapter Fourteen: Back to ST-6
Chapter Fifteen: Retirement from ST-6
Chapter Sixteen: The Dirt Circuit
Chapter Seventeen: ST-6 Today
Epilogue
Photographs
Glossary
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
A Preview of Hunt the Wolf
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