Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: thinden

wiki——snip

Berntsen (correct spelling) was serving in Latin America when the attacks on September 11 happened, after which he volunteered for the Counterterrorism Units response. He joined the Northern Alliance Liaison Team, codenamed Jawbreaker, and arrived in Afghanistan a few weeks after Gary Schroen had led the team into the Panjshir Valley.

Together with U.S. Special Forces and Afghan militias opposed to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, Berntsen led the Jawbreaker team. In early November 2001, Berntsen and his team entered into Kabul to secure hostages after the Taliban and al-Qaeda were pushed out.

They also learned that bin Laden had retreated into the Nangarhar province, near the border with Pakistan. Berntsen sent the Jawbreaker team scout the area, aided by a local Afghan warlord they paid where they eventually tracked al-Qaeda and bin Laden hiding out in the Tora Bora mountain range.

Berntsen began calling in airstrikes on the cave complex, using daisy cutter bombs, and was later joined by the Northern Alliance and the Special Forces.

snip


44 posted on 04/20/2026 8:02:01 AM PDT by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Govrnment without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery .)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies ]


To: Liz

thanx for the color


46 posted on 04/20/2026 8:34:51 AM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson