No American was yet inside the residential part of the compound. The operatives had barely been on target for a minute, and the mission was already veering off course.Photoillustration by John Ritter 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 ki
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