Summary of Doug Stanton's Horse Soldiers

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#1 On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked that morning. Two of them were American Airlines flights that were headed for New York City.

#2 On September 11, 2001, American Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Ten thousand gallons of aviation fuel exploded, with the force of 7 million sticks of dynamite.

#3 When Spencer returned from the mission, he found out that the first plane had hit the World Trade Center, and the building was on fire. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

#4 On September 11, 2001, Spencer was a married man for exactly four days. He and his wife, Dean Nosorog, were in Tahiti, asleep in their hotel room overlooking a black crescent of beach dotted by palm trees. They got up, had breakfast on their balcony, and decided to go mountain-biking.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350017809

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked that morning. Two of them were American Airlines flights that were headed for New York City.

#2

On September 11, 2001, American Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Ten thousand gallons of aviation fuel exploded, with the force of 7 million sticks of dynamite.

#3

When Spencer returned from the mission, he found out that the first plane had hit the World Trade Center, and the building was on fire. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

#4

On September 11, 2001, Spencer was a married man for exactly four days. He and his wife, Dean Nosorog, were in Tahiti, asleep in their hotel room overlooking a black crescent of beach dotted by palm trees. They got up, had breakfast on their balcony, and decided to go mountain-biking.

#5

The leader of the Afghan people, Ahmed Shah Massoud, was killed in September 2001. He had been fighting the Taliban for seven years, and they were about to win. Massoud had vowed never to give up the fight.

#6

The leader of the Northern Alliance, Massoud, was assassinated by bin Laden’s men. Within a day of his death, the hills around Konduz echoed with rumors of his passing. Abdul Hamid knew the final battle was near.

#7

Abdul, a member of bin Laden’s 055 Brigade, had met the terrorist leader a month earlier near Kandahar. He knew that bin Laden dreamed of an ancient world of Islam coming back to life through violent jihad.

#8

The attacks were not a joke. The towers had been a matched pair, but the Pentagon was hit nearly simultaneously, raising the game to a different level. By the time Greg Gibson, a helicopter pilot, passed through the guard gate at the 160th SOAR headquarters, he had heard enough on the radio to realize the crash was not an accident.

#9

Around midmorning on September 11, 2001, Cal Spencer and his team got back from the Cumberland River. They had been scouting the area, and ran into the same traffic jam as Maggie Mitchell.

#10

The attacks were, to Lambert’s mind, perfect examples of the kind of violence that the future held for Americans. They had come quickly and cheaply, carried out by a small number of men communicating via mobile phones and the Internet.

#11

Special Forces soldiers were trained to fight guerrilla wars, and they had never been given the chance to do so. They were both soldier and diplomat, and