<i>[heartbeat thumping]</i> <i>[rock music]</i> <i>male narrator:
They are America's</i> <i>elite fighting force.</i> <i>- We have the toughest,
strongest warriors</i> on the planet. <i>narrator: They are
the U.S. Navy SEALs.</i> - The movies get it wrong. <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>narrator: These are
the true stories</i> <i>of their most dangerous
combat operations.</i> - Taking the easy route is one
of the quickest ways <i>to get yourself killed.</i> - Man down! <i>narrator:
Told in their own words.</i> - I got my ass behind cover.
I almost got it, but I didn't. - I will never quit.
I will never give up. I will go until I die
or until I win. <i>narrator:
This is "Navy SEALs."</i> <i>While just a fraction
of the overall military,</i> <i>the U.S. Navy SEALs
are the tip of the spear</i> <i>in America's
global war on terror.</i> <i>One of their most
important jobs is to hunt down</i> <i>and capture America's
most wanted enemies.</i> <i>If you are on their list,</i> <i>you can run,
you can even hide,</i> <i>but in the end, there is no
escape from the Navy SEALs.</i> <i>Baghdad, Iraq. 2004.</i> <i>One year after driving
Saddam Hussein from power,</i> <i>a violent insurgency
launched by Al-Qaeda</i> <i>has turned
the Iraqi capital</i> <i>into one of the deadliest
places on earth.</i> [overlapping chatter] <i>Lieutenant Ed Hiner
of SEAL Team 2</i> <i>has been dropped right
into the middle of it.</i> - When I first showed up
in Baghdad, it was right after the tipping point
insurgency had started, <i>and there was explosions
everywhere.</i> <i>There was smoke
and things were burning.</i> It just looked like
World War III. <i>narrator: Hiner is a member
of a top secret joint</i> <i>U.S. and British
Special Forces unit,</i> <i>codenamed Taskforce Black.</i> <i>Their objective: capture or
kill Al-Qaeda's top leaders.</i> <i>- They were in
Bin Laden's network.</i> <i>You know,
lieutenants and above.</i> <i>They're the leaders that make
the decisions for Al-Qaeda,</i> and that's who
we were hunting. <i>narrator: But in
a place like Baghdad,</i> <i>where an enemy could be
hiding around any corner...</i> <i>[tense music]</i> <i>...even the best hunters
become the hunted.</i> <i>The best laid plans
can turn deadly.</i> <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>[overlapping chatter]</i> <i>Using the latest
technology available,</i> <i>including phone tapping
software, satellite imagery,</i> <i>and a network
of paid informants,</i> <i>U.S. and British
intelligence operatives</i> <i>have been trying to pin down</i> <i>Al-Qaeda's top lieutenants
for nearly a year.</i> <i>Lieutenant Hiner
has only been on the ground</i> <i>a little over an hour when
he is called into action.</i> <i>- I'm packing my magazines,
loading up my grenades,</i> and then one of their
intelligence officers came into the compound,
and he goes, "Hey, we've been
hunting this target." We've pinpointed his location
in downtown Baghdad. <i>narrator: The target is
a top Al-Qaeda financier</i> <i>whose identity is still
classified to this day,</i> <i>part of a covert
global network funneling</i> <i>millions of dollars
to the terrorist organization,</i> <i>money that provides funding
for weapons, vehicles,</i> <i>and an ever-growing
army of foot soldiers,</i> <i>the lifeblood of Al-Qaeda.</i> <i>- That money,
what they use it for,</i> <i>they pay off local citizens</i> <i>to be a part
of the insurgency.</i> <i>If you come strolling in
with a couple million dollars</i> <i>or ten million dollars,</i> then you have a lot of
effect on the battlefield. - [shouting in Arabic] <i>narrator: For Hiner
and Taskforce Black,</i> <i>capturing the Al-Qaeda
financier is a chance</i> <i>to deal a major blow
to the terrorists.</i> <i>- First off, if you could find
them with their records,</i> the task force could learn,
you know, who was paying who, where was the money
coming from, and of course, secondly, if you could actually
catch them with the money, <i>then that would put a dent
in the organization's</i> <i>ability to mount operations.</i> - [shouting in Arabic] - They might find a telephone
number on the phone, they might find
an email address, and they may find
that there's a meeting that's supposed to take place
somewhere that night. <i>narrator: As an 11-year
veteran of the Navy SEALs,</i> <i>Hiner knows when it comes
to taking down</i> <i>a high-value target,
there are two options:</i> <i>either capture the target
or kill him.</i> <i>- Most of the time it's
better off to capture them</i> <i>so we can get
information from them,</i> but oftentimes, you know,
if they're gonna fight back, it's not worth losing people.
We're gonna kill him. <i>narrator: Intelligence has
tracked the Al-Qaeda money man</i> <i>to a hotel in the depths
of downtown Baghdad,</i> <i>just eight miles</i> <i>from the coalition-controlled
Green Zone,</i> <i>but every SEAL knows,</i> <i>high-value targets like
the Al-Qaeda financier,</i> <i>are usually moving targets.</i> <i>- The problem
with any intelligence</i> is it's already dated. I mean, even if you're
ten minutes after having that information,
it's already dated, and people
change their plans. <i>- The target was very smart.</i> <i>He took
a lot of precautions,</i> so really, it's like,
either we go now, or they'll be moving
pretty soon, so we took off. <i>narrator: Missions like this
one often involve as many</i> <i>as 30 SEALs backed up
by additional assets,</i> <i>but with the clock ticking,</i> <i>no time to assemble
a large strike force.</i> <i>Hiner and just three other
members of Taskforce Black</i> <i>set out on the most perilous
drive of their lives.</i> <i>As the team leaves
the relative safety</i> <i>of the Green Zone,
reality sets in.</i> <i>- It hit us when we came
across the bridge in Baghdad</i> <i>and we're way out
of the Green Zone,</i> and there were thousands
of people on the street with machine guns. <i>It was definitely a surreal
kind of moment for everyone.</i> <i>narrator: With
insurgents everywhere,</i> <i>anyone on the densely
packed streets</i> <i>could be wearing
a suicide vest</i> <i>or waiting to set off
a roadside bomb.</i> <i>Despite the enormous risk,
Hiner's team travels</i> <i>in what is known
as a thin-skinned vehicle:</i> <i>an unarmored civilian car that
offers no real protection.</i> <i>For the SEALs, this is
just part of maintaining</i> <i>a low profile
and blending in.</i> <i>- We dirtied up the windows,</i> <i>just enough not
to make it look obvious.</i> Some American forces
tinted up their windows and immediately
they got shot at. It's like a bullet magnet. <i>But we figured if we went in
as locals, dressed as locals,</i> not tooled up like Americans,
we could get away with it. [whistle blowing] <i>narrator: But when traveling
this deep undercover,</i> <i>it is not just the enemy
you have to worry about.</i> <i>Hiner's mission is so secret,</i> <i>even other American forces
do not know about it.</i> - When they saw us
dressed as locals, <i>they didn't know
the difference.</i> <i>One of the things
we used to joke about</i> <i>is we were more
scared of Americans</i> <i>than we were anybody else,</i> <i>but you don't want an American
19-year-old in a Humvee</i> <i>with at 50-caliber
thinking you're getting</i> too close to him,
so we were pretty nervous. <i>narrator:
With danger all around,</i> <i>the team is ready
for anything.</i> - We all had to a go-bag, a bag
inside wrapped around our leg so if we had to exit
the vehicle in a shootout, then the bag stays with us. So it's extra magazines,
it's extra grenades, bandages,
those type of things. <i>narrator:
After about an hour,</i> <i>Hiner and his team
make it to their destination.</i> <i>They know what hotel
the target is staying in,</i> <i>but to find him,
they will need help.</i> <i>- When we entered the hotel,
the guy behind the counter,</i> <i>he looked and saw us, he knew
what we were there for.</i> I probably spoke
25 phrases of Arabic. None of them were fitting
at that moment, <i>and while we didn't have
to really say anything,</i> <i>our guns speak
for themselves.</i> <i>narrator: With Al-Qaeda
spies everywhere,</i> <i>Hiner and company
need to be on their guard.</i> - Where is he? <i>- They got smart.</i> <i>They started bunkering doors,</i> <i>putting machine guns right
in front of the doorways</i> because there's only a few
doors that you can go through, and a few windows
you can go through. <i>narrator: Hiner cautiously
leads the team</i> <i>to the second floor.</i> <i>[tense music]</i> <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>- When you do a room entry,</i> normally you might have
to have explosive breaches or manual tools,
sledgehammers, different devices
to get in there, <i>but this door, we could tell
just with a simple kick</i> <i>we could get in there.</i> <i>narrator:
The door gives instantly.</i> <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>But there's no sign
of the target.</i> - Clear.
- Let's ask him again. <i>narrator: They have
no way of knowing</i> <i>if their intelligence
was wrong,</i> <i>or if they are being
deliberately set up</i> <i>for an ambush.</i> <i>- We went back to the guy
behind the counter</i> and gave him
some encouragement, and sorted him out
a little bit, and made sure he walked us
to the right door. - Come on, bro. <i>narrator:
The team has no idea</i> <i>what's waiting for them
at the end of the hallway.</i> <i>There's only one way
to find out.</i> - This is it, right? <i>narrator: What they find this
time is even more unexpected</i> <i>and potentially
more dangerous.</i> [frantic chatter] <i>narrator: Baghdad, 2004.</i> <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>Navy SEAL Ed Hiner leads
members of Taskforce Black,</i> <i>a secret team of SEALs
and British Special Forces,</i> <i>to a hotel where
they believe a top</i> <i>Al-Qaeda financier is hiding.</i> - This is it, right? <i>narrator:
After breaching the door,</i> <i>they find themselves
face-to-face</i> <i>with their target, but
the financier is not alone.</i> - We saw our target, you know,
in bed with a female. - [shouting in Arabic] <i>narrator: The commandos don't
know who the mystery woman is,</i> <i>but now, with two
targets to secure,</i> <i>they spring into action.</i> - No, no, no, no! - [screaming] - [speaking Arabic] - The guy didn't go
peaceful at first. I mean, he was obviously
shock and awe. He had all his weapons
beside him and whatnot. <i>We beat him up a little bit,
you know, getting him subdued,</i> <i>but he didn't put up
much of a fight.</i> We zipped him up and that's
when it got interesting. - [shouting in Arabic] <i>narrator: The financier's
guest is obviously agitated,</i> <i>but Hiner's instincts tell him
it's not blood she's after.</i> - [speaking Arabic] - We didn't understand Arabic,
but, you know, I've been around
the world a few times. I understood what
she was talking about. - [speaking Arabic] <i>- And it was very obvious
that he had come into town</i> <i>for a prostitute.</i> - [speaking Arabic] And so I paid her. [chuckles] <i>I figured, hey,
she's a working girl.</i> Got to win
hearts and minds. <i>When we got back, turned him
over to interrogation,</i> and started getting out gear
ready because there was a target that's already
going on that night. <i>narrator: Lieutenant Hiner
and his fellow manhunters</i> <i>know this mission
is just one victory</i> <i>in their ongoing war
with Al-Qaeda,</i> <i>a war that will push
the SEALs' manhunting skills</i> <i>to the limit.</i> <i>Iraq. June 2007.</i> <i>As the violent insurgency
launched by Al-Qaeda</i> <i>continues to wreak havoc</i> <i>on American troops
and Iraqi civilians,</i> <i>the desert town of Karmah,</i> <i>30 miles northwest
of Baghdad,</i> <i>has become the bomb-making
capital for the terrorists,</i> <i>supplying them with hundreds</i> <i>of improvised
explosive devices, or IEDs.</i> <i>These weapons are the biggest
killer of U.S. troops in Iraq.</i> <i>Now, it's up
to 11-year SEAL veteran</i> <i>Lieutenant Commander
Jason Redman</i> <i>and his SEAL Teams</i> <i>to destroy
the bomb-making operation.</i> - We were going
after the number one Al-Qaeda leader
in the Al Anbar Province. <i>We had information that said
this individual was gonna be</i> in a specific location
in the area of Karmah, and we launched a mission
to go after him. <i>narrator: Intel shows
the target site</i> <i>is a heavily guarded,
multi-family compound.</i> - We knew that Karmah was
a place where when we went in, there was a high likelihood
we were gonna get engaged. <i>We were briefed
that this individual</i> <i>had a security element
that wore suicide vests.</i> <i>If we got too close
to their leader,</i> they were instructed
to clack themselves off to try and take is out and
prevent us from getting to him. <i>narrator: For Redman
and his manhunters,</i> <i>there is no way of knowing</i> <i>exactly what they're
about to walk into,</i> <i>but one thing is clear.</i> <i>It will be the most dangerous
kill/capture mission</i> <i>of their lives.</i> <i>Just after midnight,</i> <i>with an Air Force
AC-130 gun ship</i> <i>keeping watch high overhead,</i> <i>Redman and his teams
make their way</i> <i>through the stifling
desert heat.</i> <i>As they approach the compound,
teams split up.</i> <i>One team provides security
outside the compound</i> <i>while Redman leads his assault
team of SEAL operators,</i> <i>an interpreter, and two
local Iraqi policemen</i> <i>towards the main building.</i> <i>Suddenly, they encounter
some unexpected company.</i> - We started to move up
to the front door. <i>We had individuals
that were sleeping outside</i> to the left
of the front door. <i>narrator: With temperatures
hovering well above</i> <i>100 degrees at night,</i> <i>it's not uncommon for locals
to seek some relief outdoors,</i> <i>but now that they're on
the bomb-maker's doorstep,</i> <i>Redman isn't taking
any chances.</i> - We didn't know
who they were. There could have been,
you know, fighting-age males
within that group. <i>narrator: Redman has
the interpreter</i> <i>help secure the sleepers,
leads the rest of his men</i> <i>to the front door
of the compound.</i> <i>- The door was open, and
we didn't have to breach it,</i> <i>so we could silently
enter the house.</i> [dog barks distantly] - Execute, execute, execute. <i>♪ ♪♪</i> - Clear. - Clear.
- Clear. - Clear. - Don't move!
- Clear. <i>narrator: For the moment,
there is no sign</i> <i>of the bomb-maker
or his guards,</i> <i>but as Redman and the team
fan out</i> <i>in search of their target...</i> <i>- I'd done probably at least
one clearance of a room</i> <i>and was in the second room
when all of a sudden...</i> [gunfire] there was gunfire
happening all over the place. - We have contact! <i>narrator: The bombers
have set up</i> <i>a machine gun nest
on the roof of the compound,</i> <i>and their brutal onslaught
is just beginning.</i> [dog barks distantly] - Clear.
- Clear. - Clear. <i>narrator: A daring raid
on the compound</i> <i>of an Al-Qaeda bomb-maker</i> <i>has exploded
in a raging firefight...</i> - We have contact. <i>narrator: ...between
Lieutenant Jason Redman's</i> <i>SEAL assault team</i> <i>and insurgents
protecting their leader.</i> - They started dropping
grenades down on our guys that were holding on the women
and children in the courtyard. Our interpreter took
a couple of large pieces of the grenade fragment
in the neck. <i>narrator:
With grenades raining down</i> <i>on the front of the house,</i> <i>a new threat suddenly
erupts from behind.</i> - We also started taking
fire from another house that was about 75 yards
behind the house we were in, kind of
an outlying structure. I have a couple of
individuals that are wounded, <i>and then we have
these women and children</i> <i>that are now out in the
middle of this huge firefight.</i> There was a lot going on
right at that moment. [gunfire, explosions] - Come, come, come!
Get in, get in! <i>narrator:
Team members manage to get</i> <i>the wounded interpreter,</i> <i>along with
the terrified family,</i> <i>inside the main house
to take cover.</i> <i>With incoming fire
all around,</i> <i>the compound
has become a death trap.</i> <i>Knowing time is
not on their side,</i> <i>and running out of options,</i> <i>Redman considers
playing the deadly ace</i> <i>he's been holding
up his sleeve.</i> - I had guys saying, "Hey, we
need to call in a fire mission. "We need to put rounds
down on target to try and take care
of these guys." <i>narrator:
The AC-130 gunship</i> <i>that has been monitoring
the mission from the beginning</i> <i>is still orbiting
above the desert,</i> <i>waiting for the word
to strike.</i> <i>Known as the Angel of Death,</i> <i>the massive AC-130
is a long-endurance,</i> <i>low-flying beast equipped
with 105-millimeter cannons</i> <i>and 25-millimeter
chain guns,</i> <i>capable of firing off
6,000 rounds per minute.</i> <i>- The AC-130 gunship
is probably credited</i> with saving more lives of
American forces on the ground, the coalition force
on the ground, <i>since Vietnam when we
introduced the gunships.</i> <i>narrator: Before unleashing
this kind of hell</i> <i>on the compound,</i> <i>Redman must first confirm
that every member of his team</i> <i>is accounted for
and out of harm's way.</i> - My first thought,
"Okay we need a headcount." We cannot put any rounds down
from an aircraft unless we know exactly
where all the American forces and our Iraqi
counterparts were. <i>narrator: But after
a quick scam of the room,</i> <i>Redman is coming up short.</i> - It's at that point
that I realize that I didn't have
a full headcount. I was missing one. - Where's your partner? We're missing an Iraqi. <i>narrator: Redman realizes one
of the Iraqi officers is gone.</i> - There he is. <i>narrator: He believes
the missing man</i> <i>is pinned down
under fire outside the house.</i> <i>There is only one way
to make sure.</i> - I made the decision at that
point that I was going, <i>so I told my guys,
"Hey, I've gotta go.</i> "I need you to lay down
as much fire as possible here in a second." - All right, cover me,
cover me, cover me. <i>narrator: Now,
to save one of his own</i> <i>and keep the mission
on track,</i> <i>Redman will need
to make the run of his life.</i> <i>- As I was about to do this,</i> <i>I realized that
I was exposing myself</i> to the machine gunner
on the roof of the house <i>that's laying down fire
in the back.</i> <i>So I took off running.</i> [gunfire] <i>There was a massive
amount of fear.</i> I'm like, "Okay, you know,
I hope this turns out okay." [chuckles] <i>And I think that's
kind of what I felt like</i> <i>in that moment.</i> - You all right? We got to go, okay? - But my focus was on
what was going on, and the next step that needed
to be accomplished for us to get out of this situation
alive and to beat the enemy. - Suppressive fire! Let's move. [gunfire, explosions] <i>[tense music]</i> <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>narrator: With all the team
members now accounted for,</i> <i>Redman is almost ready to call
in the strike from the AC-130.</i> <i>But one major complication
still remains.</i> <i>- Obviously, we had
women and children,</i> so it was a really
bad situation. It was like,
"Okay, what do we do here?" <i>narrator: But for Redman,
the answer is clear:</i> <i>the safety of the civilians</i> <i>are now also
his responsibility.</i> - Tell them they got
to come with us, and they have to move
as fast as they can, okay? Let's hit it. <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>narrator:
With the support team</i> <i>laying down suppressive fire
on the enemy positions,</i> <i>he leads the group
through the courtyard.</i> <i>With everyone safely
out of the compound,</i> <i>Redman makes the call.</i> - We are out of the target
area with a full headcount. <i>- You're cleared hot
to hit the target. Over.</i> - Roger that. - And it was at that point
that there was no more fire
from that house. <i>We called it target secure,</i> <i>and extracted our wounded and
got everybody out of there.</i> <i>narrator: The massive strike
levels the compound,</i> <i>destroying the bomb-maker's
deadly stockpile of weapons,</i> <i>and striking a huge blow</i> <i>to the Karmah
bomb-making operation.</i> - It was a tremendous
group effort. Obviously, I was fortunate
enough to be in charge of it when it happened,
but we were lucky that we got everybody
out of there alive. I mean, that's the reality.
Luck plays a part in war. <i>narrator: As every SEAL knows,
no mission is perfect.</i> <i>Redman will learn the leader
of the Karmah bombers</i> <i>managed to slip away
during the chaotic firefight,</i> <i>but the ringleader's luck
doesn't last long.</i> <i>- We didn't find him
on that mission in June.</i> Missed him, but another team
ended up getting him about four months later,
after we left. <i>narrator: For Redman
and the rest of the SEALs,</i> <i>it's a reminder
that when it comes</i> <i>to kill/capture missions,
all that matters</i> <i>at the end of the day
is getting the job done.</i> <i>Just three months after
the firefight at the compound,</i> <i>Jason Redman
returned to Karmah,</i> <i>leading a hunt for another
top Al-Qaeda operative.</i> - Watch that front!
Take cover! <i>narrator: During the mission,
Redman was hit</i> <i>multiple times
by enemy machine gun fire.</i> - [groans] <i>narrator:
His injuries would require</i> <i>37 reconstructive surgeries
over the next six years.</i> <i>Redman remained on active duty
the entire time.</i> <i>In 2013, Redman retired
from the U.S. Navy</i> <i>after 21 years of service,
17 of them as a Navy SEAL.</i> <i>In the dead of night,</i> <i>Navy SEAL veteran
Lieutenant Ed Hiner</i> <i>and Seal Team 2
are on the hunt</i> <i>for a cold-blooded killer,</i> <i>a sadistic Al-Qaeda strongman
targeting his own people</i> <i>with a campaign
of fear and death.</i> - We knew that he was
one of the worst guys in Iraq at the time, one of the worst people
in the country. <i>narrator: Hiner's mission:
to lead a massive strike force</i> <i>in a daring multi-target raid</i> <i>to bring the killer
to justice.</i> <i>- We knew he was very smart,</i> <i>and he had a way
of watching his back,</i> <i>and this is one
of the few hours</i> <i>we were gonna get
an opportunity to get him.</i> <i>narrator: But with an enemy
as unpredictable as Al-Qaeda,</i> <i>sometimes opportunity
comes from allies</i> <i>you didn't even know you had.</i> <i>As the bloody
Al-Qaeda-led insurgency</i> <i>continues to grow
in scope and violence,</i> <i>the city of Ramadi
in western Iraq</i> <i>has become a living hell</i> <i>for U.S. forces
and local citizens alike.</i> - When we first got to Ramadi,
probably 200 mortars hit us. - [shouting in Arabic] <i>narrator: Things were burning.
Tanks were shooting.</i> <i>It was the most
dangerous place on earth</i> <i>when we got there.</i> <i>narrator: Having served in
Iraq for the past two years,</i> <i>Hiner knows Al-Qaeda
will do anything</i> <i>to force civilians
to cooperate.</i> <i>- The guys that were coming
in Al-Qaeda at the time,</i> <i>these guys came in
to intimidate people</i> <i>and get them to form up
the insurgency,</i> <i>hold their family ransom,</i> and if the family member
didn't go out and be a suicide bomber
or go plant IEDs, they would kill the family. <i>narrator: Leading
this savage recruitment</i> <i>is a notorious Al-Qaeda
enforcer, Amir Khalaf Fanus.</i> <i>Locals simply refer
to him as The Butcher.</i> <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>- He was very notorious for
cutting people's heads off.</i> He would execute people
in front of their families. <i>narrator: Far from
distancing himself</i> <i>from his gruesome crimes,
The Butcher revels in them.</i> - We had videos of him
executing entire families. - [speaking Arabic] [spits] <i>narrator: After months
of trying to pin down</i> <i>The Butcher's location,</i> <i>U.S. Intelligence
gets a break.</i> <i>- He had come with his crew
to have a meeting</i> <i>and to pass off weapons,
money, and that's when</i> <i>the intelligence agency
came to us.</i> They had put
the puzzle together, and they just needed
an action arm to do it. That was us. <i>narrator:
The latest intel locates</i> <i>the Butcher and
his lieutenants holed up</i> <i>in multiple compounds
on the outskirts of Ramadi.</i> <i>For this mission,
Hiner will not be relying</i> <i>on American forces alone.</i> <i>The SEALS know that to win
the war against Al-Qaeda,</i> <i>U.S. forces will
need to win the battle</i> <i>for the locals' trust.</i> - This was one of the first
times that we brought, like, a lot of Iraqis with us. <i>You know, we've been training
and working with them</i> <i>trying to get them on board.</i> <i>narrator: Hiner's Navy SEALs
have the Butcher of Ramadi</i> <i>in their sights,</i> <i>but pulling off a raid
this big would not be easy.</i> <i>To maintain
the element of surprise,</i> <i>the task force must execute
a perfectly coordinated strike</i> <i>to hit all the targets
simultaneously.</i> <i>- We had to hit them
all quickly,</i> <i>so that there was no indicator
that we were coming.</i> <i>They don't stay in
one place very long,</i> so it all had
to be simultaneous to make sure we got
who we wanted, and got them all before
they could squirt out. <i>narrator: As Hiner and his
team move on the compound</i> <i>where they believe
Fanus is hiding,</i> <i>the team stacks up and
prepares to make their entry</i> <i>using the three elements
SEALs are best known for:</i> <i>speed, surprise
and violence of action.</i> - 32 up. <i>narrator: A highly trained
team member</i> <i>called a breacher</i> <i>places a C-4 explosive
charge on the door.</i> <i>- You're waiting
for that breacher.</i> <i>He gets the breacher
charge on.</i> <i>The door's getting
ready to blow off.</i> <i>You've done it
so many times.</i> You've visualized it.
You've trained to it. You know you're as good or
better than anyone out there. <i>narrator: But even in
the most experienced hands,</i> <i>explosive breaching is
one of the most dangerous</i> <i>entry methods SEALs use.</i> <i>Determining just the right
amount of charge is crucial.</i> <i>Too little could simply
alert the enemy</i> <i>without taking the door down.</i> <i>Too much, everyone
in the immediate area</i> <i>could be blown to pieces.</i> - Door!
[explosion] - Go! <i>narrator: The breach
works to perfection,</i> <i>and the SEALs storm
the compound.</i> <i>[tense music]</i> <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>The raid immediately nets</i> <i>four high-ranking
Al-Qaeda operatives,</i> <i>but the SEALs' main target,</i> <i>The Butcher,
is not among them.</i> <i>- As far as the ringleader,
Fanus, The Butcher,</i> <i>I believe he was there.
I believe he just got away.</i> - On their knees. <i>narrator: Over the next
several hours,</i> <i>the manhunters continue
their relentless assault.</i> - Amir Fanus. Look at me.
Where's The Butcher? <i>narrator: Bagging the rest
of Fanus' inner circle,</i> <i>but The Butcher is
still nowhere to be found.</i> - The task unit went through
a number of compounds, apprehended eight
Al-Qaeda in Iraq figures, <i>but The Butcher of Ramadi</i> <i>apparently escaped
in the nick of time.</i> <i>- Not every mission
is gonna turn out</i> <i>exactly how you want it,</i> but we got his stash
and broke up his network, but there would be
more to follow. <i>[tense music]</i> <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>narrator: Just two days
after the raids,</i> <i>an unmarked local vehicle</i> <i>approaches the U.S. base
at Camp Ramadi.</i> <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>With the constant danger
of a surprise attack,</i> <i>the servicemen prepare
for the worst.</i> - [speaking in Arabic] <i>- A car pulled up
at the gate,</i> <i>and there was a local Sheik,</i> <i>and he got out,
and he opened the trunk,</i> <i>and inside was
Amir Khalaf Fanus,</i> <i>looking like
he'd been beaten up,</i> <i>and the Sheik
told the Americans,</i> <i>"Hey, look, next time you want
somebody who's in my area,</i> "don't come into the area. You just tell me,
and we'll take care of it." <i>narrator: For the Navy SEALs
and Iraqi civilians</i> <i>living under
the constant threat</i> <i>of violence
from Al-Qaeda,</i> <i>the delivery of
The Butcher marks</i> <i>the beginning of a new
kind of partnership.</i> <i>- This Sheik understood
we meant business.</i> <i>We blew off his doors,
blew his stuff up.</i> <i>The town took a beating.</i> <i>He understood that we
were there to get bad guys</i> and that we were going
to keep coming. <i>- That was what many people
know as the Anbar Awakening,</i> <i>and the Anbar Awakening</i> <i>really shifted the war
because a lot of the Sheiks</i> <i>in specifically
the Anbar Province</i> <i>stepped up and said,
"You know what,</i> <i>"we're willing
to cooperate with you</i> "and help provide information
in order for you guys "to execute your missions and hopefully
get these guys out of here." <i>Years of brutal civil war</i> <i>has torn the former
Republic of Yugoslavia apart.</i> <i>NATO has brokered
a fragile truce,</i> <i>but the toll
has been horrific.</i> <i>Serbian Warlords have carried
out a savage campaign</i> <i>of ethnic cleansing,</i> <i>resulting in the systematic
murder of some 100,000</i> <i>mostly Muslim civilians.</i> <i>Now, in the wake
of the atrocities,</i> <i>the war criminals
are on the run.</i> - Our mission was
going after persons indicted for war crimes that we used an acronym
referred to as PIFWCs, <i>Serbians and others</i> <i>who committed crimes
against humanity.</i> - The indictments, you know, outline torture and murder. <i>narrator: Working from a list
compiled by the UN,</i> <i>it's up to men like
12-year SEAL veteran,</i> <i>Lieutenant Commander
Ryan Zinke</i> <i>and members of SEAL Team 6</i> <i>to capture the war criminals
and deliver them</i> <i>to an International Court
of Law at The Hague.</i> - As the atrocities
began to be more pronounced, <i>Special Forces
began to be more involved</i> <i>in identifying the locations
of those individuals</i> <i>and bringing them to justice.</i> <i>narrator: U.S. intelligence
operatives set their sights</i> <i>on the two most dangerous
targets still at large.</i> <i>Blagoje Simic,
aka The Hitler of Bosnia,</i> <i>and Stevan Todorovic,</i> <i>Simic's notorious
former Chief of Police.</i> <i>Both have been located
in the village of Samac,</i> <i>less than a mile
from the border</i> <i>between Bosnia and Croatia.</i> <i>- They either killed
in a very brutal fashion</i> <i>literally hundreds
of Muslims,</i> or, you know,
allowed them to be killed, and that's how they got
on the list. <i>- Everyone had their
different roles,</i> <i>and the initial part</i> <i>was just to locate
the individuals.</i> <i>narrator: The CIA, along
with coalition partners,</i> <i>launched a massive
surveillance operation.</i> <i>Navy SEALs are at
the tip of the spear.</i> - We had a group of
intelligence operatives that were on the ground. <i>We would take some
of our SEAL operators</i> <i>and link up with them</i> <i>to figure out
where these guys were.</i> <i>- Once an individual was
located in a general area,</i> then it was
developing patterns, what time he gets up
in the morning, what time he leaves. <i>narrator:
In a small town like Samac,</i> <i>where any newcomer
arouses suspicion,</i> <i>keeping a low profile
is crucial.</i> - The SEALs would blend in
with the local population by wearing locally bought
clothes that didn't stand out, <i>wearing their hair in the same
style that the locals wore it.</i> <i>- I think if the guys
could have</i> <i>made their hair grow longer</i> and their beards grow faster,
they would have. <i>- It involved everything
from driving local cars,</i> even smoking locally
bought cigarettes. That was obviously
quite a significant step for many of the SEALs who consider themselves
athlete warriors. <i>narrator: To further
reduce their visibility,</i> <i>what the SEALs
call signature,</i> <i>the hunters deploy
another new tactic.</i> <i>- This is the first time that
women were really involved</i> because if you have
two SEALs in a car, that has a signature. When you have a male
and a female in a car, it lessens the signature. <i>narrator: In their quest to
take the war criminals down,</i> <i>SEALs look for anything
that might give them an edge,</i> <i>including just plain luck.</i> <i>- In one case, an individual
we were looking at,</i> there was just
a standard patrol. <i>They were simply
driving down the road</i> <i>and, lo and behold,
they see the individual,</i> so they pull up to him
and they put him in the car. <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>narrator: But the SEALs
know that each success</i> <i>comes with a price.</i> <i>Every capture puts
high-value targets</i> <i>like Simic and Todorovic
on high alert.</i> <i>The longer they wait,</i> <i>the greater the chance
their targets</i> <i>will get wind
of the mission</i> <i>and slip away,
but if the SEALs</i> <i>do not time
their grab perfectly,</i> <i>the entire mission
could be an embarrassing</i> <i>and potentially fatal failure.</i> <i>With the clock ticking,
it's now time to decide:</i> <i>go or no go.</i> <i>A brutal civil war
has ripped the Balkans apart.</i> <i>As American troops
and coalition forces attempt</i> <i>to keep order
in the battle-scarred streets,</i> <i>the most elite manhunters
in the world, the Navy SEALs,</i> <i>are deployed
deep undercover</i> <i>to track down
dangerous war criminals</i> <i>and bring them to justice.</i> <i>But with each capture
they make,</i> <i>the more difficult it becomes</i> <i>to take down high-value
targets Blagoje Simic,</i> <i>aka the Hitler of Bosnia,
and Stevan Todorovic.</i> - After you grab one or two,
the word gets out and now it's tough. <i>narrator: To avoid tipping off
either of their targets,</i> <i>it's decided the SEALs
will hit both men</i> <i>in a coordinated
double strike.</i> <i>- There was a consensus that
they had to be done together</i> at one time,
which complicated, of course,
the operation itself. <i>narrator: For the SEALs,</i> <i>keeping the mission
a secret is crucial,</i> <i>not only from the war
criminals and their spies,</i> <i>but friendly forces as well.</i> <i>- Remember, there was a large
conventional army presence,</i> and again we did not
want anyone to know that we were injecting
special operations. <i>There was a degree of,
not mistrust,</i> <i>but concern that
conventional forces</i> <i>did not have control
of information</i> as well as
the special operations. <i>narrator: Early morning,
September 27, 1998.</i> <i>The SEALs split off
into two assault teams.</i> <i>They take their
positions outside</i> <i>Simic and Todorovic's
apartments about a mile apart.</i> <i>The abduction of Simic
will be led</i> <i>by Lieutenant Commander Zinke.</i> - Some PIFWCs did have people
guarding them, so it just depended
on the person. <i>Most people carried
a sidearm and a rifle,</i> but everybody
there carried a sidearm. <i>narrator: Zinke and his team
are aware of the risks</i> <i>and have prepared
for every contingency.</i> <i>- After hundreds of hours
of surveillance,</i> <i>you know, we had a pretty
good idea of the pattern.</i> <i>Once he left that building,</i> he was not gonna go anywhere
other than our van. <i>narrator: 50 miles
south of Samac,</i> <i>commander of Seal Team 6,
Bert Calland</i> <i>will monitor
the Todorovic grab</i> <i>from the U.S. base in Tuzla.</i> <i>- What we were
concerned about was,</i> did we have enough people to be able
to take them down at once? <i>narrator:
All is quiet at first.</i> <i>Then suddenly,
Zinke and his team</i> <i>get word from
the second location.</i> <i>- Visual on the target,
visual on the target.</i> <i>narrator: Stevan Todorovic
is on the move.</i> <i>- He came out,
van door was opened.</i> <i>[tense music]</i> <i>♪ ♪♪</i> <i>narrator: Todorovic
is caught off guard.</i> <i>SEALs are on him
in an instant.</i> <i>He is shipped off to
The Hague in the Netherlands,</i> <i>where after confessing
to his crimes,</i> <i>he receives
a ten-year sentence.</i> <i>One high-value target down.</i> <i>One to go.</i> <i>Back at Simic's
apartment complex,</i> <i>Zinke's team
waits poised to strike.</i> <i>As five minutes
turns into ten,</i> <i>Zinke's experience
and instincts</i> <i>tell him something
isn't right.</i> <i>His intel shows that Simic</i> <i>leaves his building
every morning</i> <i>by 7:30 without fail.</i> <i>It's now
just after 8:00 am.</i> - Once one target was taken, <i>then their network
would tip people off</i> <i>and then they would go under
and out of sight,</i> <i>and my gut feeling is,
in our case, that occurred.</i> <i>narrator: But Blagoje Simic
will not remain free for long.</i> <i>In 2001,
after three years in hiding,</i> <i>he turns himself
into The Hague.</i> <i>Simic is given
a 15-year sentence</i> <i>for his crimes
against humanity.</i> - I think a wrap up of kind
of the Bosnian pick missions, <i>they really were the prelude
for more complicated missions.</i> - Building those bonds between
the special operators on one side
and intelligence agencies <i>on the other paid
huge dividends after 9/11</i> <i>when all of those forces
found themselves side-by-side</i> <i>on the battle fields
of Afghanistan and Iraq.</i> <i>narrator: Today, the lessons
learned over decades</i> <i>of kill/capture missions
from the Balkans to Baghdad,</i> <i>is being passed on
to a new generation of SEALs.</i> <i>As new threats
to the security of America</i> <i>and her allies
emerge across the globe,</i> <i>it will be up to them to
hunt down those responsible</i> <i>wherever they are.</i> - Door! <i>narrator: And whenever
they get the call,</i> <i>the manhunters
of the U.S. Navy SEALs</i> <i>will be ready to find,</i> <i>to fix
and to finish the enemy.</i> <i>[dramatic music]</i>
