Kill Bin Laden: a Delta Force Commander's account of the hunt for the world's most wanted man (62 page)

Serbia.
See also
Balkans

Shachnow, Sid

Shah-i-Khot

Shelter Now International, hostage crisis

shooters, Delta Force.
See also
snipers

Shrek (sniper)

Ahmed, Gul mission

equipment of

Hopper and

Shroen, Gary

Shultz, Richard

Shura (council of elders)

siege warfare, Tora Bora Mountains

SIGINT, bin Laden, Usama.
See also
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); HUMINT; intelligence

Silver Star recommendations

Six Minutes to Freedom
(Muse)

Ski (recce team leader)

Afghanistan mission

Ahmed, Gul mission

Tora Bora, Battle of

Smith, Michael

Smucker, Philip

snipers

bin Laden, Usama

Delta Force

Tora Bora, Battle of

SOCOM, MacDill Air Force Base

SOFLAM (Special Operations Force Laser Marker)

Somalia (Black Sea, Battle of)

The Sopranos
(TV show)

Sorubi, Afghanistan

Soviet Union

Afghanistan war

Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)

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

Special Boat Service (SBS, U.K.)

Special Forces Operational Detachment (Delta Force).
See
Delta Force

Special Operations Aviation Regimen (SOAR)

Special Operations Force Laser Marker (SOFLAM)

Special Operations Forces.
See also
Delta Force

deployment decisions

principles of

Special Warfare Center (Fort Bragg, North Carolina)

Spectator
(London, England newspaper)

Spin Ghar Mountains (Afghanistan)

Spyderco knives

SR-25 long-range rifle

Stabilization Forces (SFOR)

Stormin’ (“the Bod,” assault team leader)

Sudan, Delta Force

supply problems, Tora Bora, Battle of

Surefire flashlight

surrender, at Tora Bora

Suskind, Ron

Sutter, Mark

Tactical Operations Center (TOC)

tactical signal interceptors

Taliban.
See also
al Qaeda; bin Laden, Usama; Tora Bora, Battle of (Afghanistan)

deception plan for

intelligence on

Inter-Service Intelligence (Pakistan)

mujahideen

Northern Alliance

Shelter Now International hostage crisis

Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)

Talon aircraft

tanks

al Qaeda

mujahideen

targeting

Task Force Dagger.
See
Mulholland, John

taxpayers, Tora Bora, Battle of

Team Jawbreaker Juliet (CIA point group)

Kabul, Afghanistan

money

Tehran, Iran

television.
See
media

terminal guidance operations (TGOs)

Green Berets

reconnaissance

terrorism

Baader-Meinhof gang

Delta Force planning

9/11 terrorist attacks

T-55 (Soviet tank)

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Thermopylae, Battle of

They Just Don’t Get It
(Hunt)

Thompson, C. W.

Tiger Swan Inc.

Tikrit, Iraq

Tip of the Spear
(magazine)

To Dare and to Conquer
(Leebaert)

Top Gun
(movie)

Tora Bora, Battle of (Afghanistan)

Ahmed, Gul

air bombing

Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord)

Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord) forward command

Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord) headquarters

Ali, Hazret (Pashai warlord) tactics

al Qaeda

al Qaeda surrender

ammunition

bin Laden, Usama

BLU-82 bomb (Daisy Cutter)

British SBS commandos

casualties

costs of

Delta Force

Engagement Zones (EZ)

friendly fire

Green Berets

maps

medals and awards for

media

military units in

mobile support site (MSS)

mujahideen

Mulholland, John

night vision goggles (NVGs)

observation posts

preparations for

quick-reaction force (QRF)

significance and lessons of

Ski

snipers

supply problems

surrender at

tactics for

weather complications

Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord)

Tora Bora Mountains (Afghanistan)

air supremacy

al Qaeda

bin Laden, Usama

enemy manpower in

intelligence on

weather

tourniquets

Towr Ghar Mountains (Afghanistan)

Trainor, Bernard

Trojan horse plan

Trojan War

T-62 (Soviet tank)

Tucker, David

unexploded ordnance

uniforms

Delta Force

friendly fire

Green Berets

mujahideen

United Kingdom

Afghanistan

intelligence

Royal Marine commandos

SBS commandos

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

Special Boat Service (SBS, U.K.)

United States

United States Air Force

United States Air Force special tactics combat control.
See also
Admiral (U.S. Air Force combat controller); Tora Bora, Battle of (Afghanistan), air bombing

United States Army

military establishment

organizational model

United States Army Central Command (CENTCOM)

Spin Ghar Mountains (Afghanistan)

Tora Bora, Battle of

United States Army Green Berets

Afghanistan operations

Ali, Hazret (warlord)

Balkan operations

Delta Force

mujahideen

Spin Ghar Mountains (Afghanistan)

terminal guidance operations

Tora Bora, Battle of

uniforms

United States Embassy bombings (Africa)

United States Marine Corps

United States Special Operations Forces
(Tucker and Lamb)

urban reconnaissance, Delta Force

Urdu

Uzbekistan

Vader thermal imager

Vickers, Larry

video camera, espionage

Vietnam War

Viking Tactics Inc.

war criminals

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

Delta Force and

Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji

Waugh, Billy

weapons of mass destruction, intelligence

weather complications, Tora Bora, Battle of

Weekly Standard
(magazine)

Wilcox, Frederick B.

World Trade Center terrorism attacks

Xerxes (king of Persia)

Yasotay

Zaman Ghamshareek, Haji (Pashtun warlord).
See also
mujahideen

Ali, Hazret (warlord) and

al Qaeda

al Qaeda surrender

bin Laden, Usama

biography of

Inter-Service Intelligence (Pakistan)

media

Shura

surrender negotiations

Tora Bora, Battle of

Zawahiri, Ayman al-

intelligence on

Tora Bora, Battle of

Zawir Khili, Afghanistan

ZPU-1 14.5mm AAA guns