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Hidden in the shadows, Delta Force operators are the “go-to” team when the US needs a special job done.

The soldiers’ mission that morning was clear, but it was far from easy. Intelligence reports had come in and painted a grim picture: the Kurdish sol- diers had received information that deep within the compound, about twenty of their fellow peshmerga were being held as prisoners. Worse, the prisoners were not going to be alive much longer. They were scheduled to be executed soon after the sun rose. Were the reports true? No one could know for sure. But there was an omi- nous sign: aerial surveillance showed that outside the prison, long trenches had been recently dug. They were empty, for now. But both the Kurdish and American soldiers knew all too well what they were. Graves. Their job now was to keep them from being filled.

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