After years of fighting with the UK Ministry of Defense, the hero of the 2019 Nairobi terrorist attack has finally been able to get his book out.
Christian Craighead's book "One Man In" released today!
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The Delta Force rescue of Roy Hallums.
On November 1, 2004, gunmen stormed a compound in Baghdad’s Mansour district and seized American contractor Roy Hallums along with several colleagues. Hallums, who worked for a company supplying food to Iraqi forces, vanished into a nightmare that would last 311 days.
For months his family had almost no proof he was alive, until a January 2005 video showed him bound, bearded, and pleading with a rifle at his head. Other hostages were released, but Hallums was not. His captors demanded $12 million. He was shuffled between safe houses, beaten, and eventually sealed in a cramped concrete cell under the floor of a farmhouse south of Baghdad, surviving on air through a narrow tube.
The break came in early September 2005. Intelligence work, detainee interrogations, and the quiet work of analysts and operators finally produced a location. On the morning of September 7, Delta Force operators lifted off in 160th SOAR helicopters and hit a farmhouse in the Triangle of Death, about 15 miles south of the capital.
The kidnappers had already fled. Inside, the team found no obvious basement. Then they discovered a hatch hidden beneath a freezer. They broke through. An operator dropped into the darkness, looked at the bound, disoriented man inside, and asked the only question that mattered: “Are you Roy?” “Yes.” “Jackpot.”
Hallums and an Iraqi hostage were pulled from the hole. A Delta operator pressed a small American flag patch into Hallums’ hand, and after more than ten months underground, he was free.