

Having returned from exile, Karzai on the run from the Taliban was traveling the countryside to raise a militia.

Armed solely with the equipment they could carry on their backs, shockingly scant intelligence, and their mastery of guerrilla warfare, Captain Jason Amerine and his ten men had no choice but to trust their only ally, a little known Pashtun statesman named Hamid Karzai. Special Forces team of Green Berets known as ODA 574 infiltrated the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a seemingly impossible mission: to foment a tribal revolt and force the Taliban to surrender.

On a moonless night just weeks after September 11, 2001, a U.S.
