Prologue: The Wrong Door
This is from The Ice Man, my book about the Navy SEAL platoon in Iraq that took the blame for a CIA homicide. The book is available only to paid subscribers. I will continue to post additional content for non-paying subscribers.
In the fall of 2003, a Navy SEAL assault team operating deep inside Iraq was the US military’s go-to squad for capturing insurgents waging war against the US occupation.
Riding in Humvees, headlights off, they would rumble through streets and alleyways of Iraq and scramble from their vehicles to take positions outside the homes of suspected terrorists, insurgents, and former members of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
That’s when Dan Cerrillo, a bull-necked 31-year-old armed with explosive charges, would get to work.
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