What follows is a stirring account - from the New Yorker archives- of the military operation that resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden (remember him?) and inspired the movie "Zero Dark Thirty"
-The New Yorker
Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy seals from Team Six, which is officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or devgru. A Pakistani-American translator, whom I will call Ahmed, and a dog named Cairo—a Belgian Malinois—were also aboard. It was a moonless evening, and the helicopters’ pilots, wearing night-vision goggles, flew without lights over mountains that straddle the border with Pakistan. Radio communications were kept to a minimum, and an eerie calm settled inside the aircraft.
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