Hunting Al Qaeda A Take-no-prisoners Account of Terror, Adventure, And Disillusionment

"This team was hell-bent on hunting al Qaeda, and hunt they did." -Colonel Gerald Schumacher, United States Army Special Forces (ret.) from Hunting al Qaeda, Foreword "Here they were, side by side-the antagonist, the schizophrenic, the dismissive, the disgruntled, the grinning goof, the gun geek, the gorilla, the kleptomaniac, the neophyte, the Cubano, the cranky team sergeant, and the impetuous team leader-ready to take on all enemies. Each of them would have to rely on the others' strengths, put up with the others' annoying idiosyncrasies, expect and plan for the unexpected, and become one unified weapon against terror. Like asylum inmates who, after months of being exposed only to each other, actually begin to think themselves sane, the members of Beast 85 would become increasingly comfortable with the strange conditions of unconventional warfare. Bushy beards and turbans; ballistic body-armor paired with baseball caps ... the benchmark for 'normal' would slide, unceremoniously, toward the unrecognizable."Schumacher, Gerald E. is the author of 'Hunting Al Qaeda A Take-no-prisoners Account of Terror, Adventure, And Disillusionment', published 2005 under ISBN 9780760322529 and ISBN 076032252X.