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Article: War by video conference: how al Qaeda fought us to a draw in the biggest battle in Afghanistan.(Not A Good Day To Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda )(Book Review)
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- July 1, 2005
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Not A Good Day To Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda By Sean Naylor Berkley Hardcover; $25.95
The crew of the Chinook helicopter hovering above noticed the footprints in the snow as they prepared to land on Takur Ghar, a forbidding, 10,469-foot high peak overlooking the Shahikot Valley of eastern Afghanistan. It was just before 3:00 a.m. on March 4, 2002, and U.S. forces were launching Operation Anaconda to wipe out a contingent of Taliban and al Qaeda forces. An A.C.-130 gunship flying just ahead of them had seemed to confirm earlier intelligence that there was no significant enemy presence in the valley. But as the crew waited for the landing ramp to ...