Danger Close Page #5

for himself also for Rob.

He would come down

to the cemetery...

and it would be his chance

to sit and talk with Rob.

He would park his car.

He would have a pin in his car

where Rob's picture would be.

And he would walk up

to Rob's resting place...

and he would take a pin

and poke Rob's coffee.

And as it was dripping out,

he would drink

his coffee with Rob.

That was...

That was their time together.

My father passed away

on September 11th, 2012.

He was really sick

and in a hard place,

but he knew it was... okay

because he was gonna

see his son again.

We wanted to have him

buried as close

as we could to Rob

and we know that's what

he would have wanted,

so we made that happen.

QUADE:
Tim, the medic,

who had tried to save

his Green Beret brother and help

him breathe his last breathes...

wanted to know that the

place that Rob had built...

He wanted to know

about the changes there,

but the military P.A.O.s

had said that my...

My embed was with

10th Special Forces Group

and was not with

1st Special Forces Group,

which was now located

where Combat Outpost Pirelli

was in Diyala province.

They denied my request.

So to get there,

I'd have to hitchhike

from Special Forces

A Team to A more than 300 miles

around the war zone.

From an-Nasiriyah

it was to Hilla.

From there, went to

Baghdad to area four,

which was the secret location

where those serious gunners

of ODA 0-9-4 were going out

and doing missions.

- (clamoring chatter)

- (gunfire)

- Alex!

- What?

- Stay out here.

- Who said?

All clear!

(soldiers chatter)

Put these guys on the roof.

All right, step in there, Alex.

- What was that?

- (speaks Arabic)

- He's a free worker.

- What does he do?

Yes.

(quiet chatter)

(speaks Arabic)

The one's too young.

But the other one might

be old enough to be him.

Do you have

a first name, Hussein?

Robert.

Pull those detainees

and go down out of the element.

Have the source take a look

at both those jack-asses.

- Okay. Hey, Bob!

- Yeah.

I'm gonna need you and Ranger

in about 3 minutes.

- Ali Abu...

- Bob, you move with...

- Haruz, let's go, brother.

- Ranger

(both speak Arabic)

ANDERSON:
Did you actually

plot a course in your own mind?

If this didn't work out,

you could sense an adjust,

and you knew somewhere

else that you could try?

Is that what... Is that sort

of how you approached it?

I always hope for the best.

Um, expect the worst

and plan accordingly.

And I always hope

that logic will prevail

and people will... will...

Will... will maybe have a soft spot

get what it is that I was doing,

but, uh, no.

From there, it was to Camp Taji.

What's the deal

with this bad guy?

Oh, we got

a warrant for his arrest.

It's a Baghdad warrant.

He was an AQI member.

Mostly what he's wanted for

is the murder of

other Iraqi members,

mostly another clan.

His tribe is very large

with I.E.D.s in this area.

QUADE:
What's your name?

You're the RTO?

- Yeah, Roger.

- And I'm Alex.

Okay, I'm gonna be on your

hipper behind you, okay?

Okay.

MAN:
(on radio) An Arrow 2-5,

go ahead, it's traffic.

We at this time, we

are supporting Jaguar

on guard.

- Check the friendlies, please.

- Checking the friendlies.

We have six Humvees on the road.

(radio chatter)

It's about a six

vehicle convoy, over.

QUADE:
Okay.

Okay, will do.

AIRMAN:
(on radio) The compound

that is directly above them

to the southeast

is a hostile compound.

They can declare

that area, copy.

All right, go-

Go, go, go,

last man. Last man.

Get out of the hallway.

Medic check.

Hit it with your light.

Will it open?

(banging on door)

(Men speaking Arabic)

(banging on door)

Go! Go! Go!

(indistinct shouts)

(officer speaks Arabic)

Sir, these are his cousins.

Round 'em up.

Take 'em outside.

(prisoner speaks Arabic)

(officer speaks Arabic)

The first house we went to,

the target house,

was the target's house,

his family's house.

He was not at that house.

- SOLDIER:
We're just searching the house...

- Go, -hmm.

Because this guy

is a high-level leader.

We're looking for

documents, notebooks,

anything that can

lead to the next guys.

We call it a cascading target.

Normally with

high-level terrorists,

they're like code 1-0-4.

It's like the highest

level of crime

in the Iraqi judicial system.

And so this guy was wanted

on a code 1-0-4 warrant.

QUADE:
Why is he a bad guy?

Why do we go after this guy?

Very basic broad strokes.

SOLDIER:
Yeah, he runs a

terrorist organization.

QUADE:

Which does what?

SOLDIER:
The big thing he's

pushing for now is I.E.D.s

QUADE:
And the I.E.D. threat has

kinda started up a little again,

- more recently.

- Yeah, I hear in the last

two weeks,

we've had three strikes.

And that coincides with

being released from prison.

- So...

- He had been detained and then got released

and back out on the streets?

Yup.

- AIRMAN:
Checking for movement.

- SOLDIER:
Copy.

You got two of 'em

staying in the courtyard, there.

- Yeah, I think that's him.

- Copy.

- Are there three?

- Okay, now there are three of them

running in.

One is...

Oh, one's a kid.

- Copy.

- There's another one.

Four, five...

They have all gone

into the door

of the host building

and continuing to watch.

AIRMAN:
Yeah, make sure you

get ahold of those guys

in that area up there.

SOLDIER:

Roger, that's a good, copy.

(dog barking)

- (gunshots)

- (barking continues)

- (gunshot)

- Go, go, go!

Go to the left!

To the left.

- Where'd everyone go?

- Clear!

(soldiers chatter)

Go, go, go!

- (officer speaks Arabic)

- (boy speaks Arabic)

- (officer translates)

- (boy speaks Arabic)

- (officer speaks Arabic)

- (boy speaks Arabic)

Okay.

(soldier indistinct)

(prisoner speaks Arabic)

TRANSLATOR:
He says he doesn't know.

(speaks Arabic)

(dog barking)

(shouting in Arabic)

(shouting)

(barking)

SOLDIER:
His brother was there.

We have his brother,

a major ARCOM in the I.A.s

We got the story

of where he was at.

They try to lie to 'em,

but it's a lot easier

for the I.A.s

because they speak the language.

MAN:
(on radio) Three minutes

ago, we heard one individual

talk to another individual.

That they took the hill coming

toward the other individual.

(helicopter whirring)

SOLDIER:

Search that tree line.

AIRMAN:
Searching.

AIRMAN:
I got alight

or something down there.

Get right there.

That's him.

We are tracking

enemy personnel in that area.

(dogs barking)

- (helicopter whirs)

- (dogs barking)

AIRMAN:
Look around

for the friendlies, please.

AIRMAN:
They are

continuing west from there.

(muttering)

All right, he's running.

Let's watch him for a second.

Close to friendlies!

He is 360 meters,

and he's hunkered down.

QUADE:
I follow.

Go, go.

- Okay, well, one, two, three, four.

- (water sloshes)

- Thank you.

- SOLDIER:
You're welcome.

AIRMAN:
So far, it looks

like he's hunkered down.

- SOLDIER:
I'm checking for movement.

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