Tenterhooks with episode endings - the baddie snuffed out

A soap opera is a form of serial drama which is characterized by very cliché plots, themes, and situations. In addition, a soap opera has a continuous narrative and a large, complex cast of characters; most episodes end with a promise that the drama will be continued on the next episode.
But every sheap soap opera `comes to end, some day.
Viewers of soap operas are often kept on tenterhooks with fighters episode endings.

I´m intersted in Dalton Fury´s story, he is the pseudonym of a former Army major who led the secret Delta Force mission to kill Osama bin Laden nine or ten weeks after 9/11, becouse It´s verified, I´ve got about approximately same information about another source (with same level as fury), witch is independent and hasn´t causal relations between with Dalton Fury.
During the raid and only a few hundred yards away from their quarry, the mission was scrubbed and outsourced to the Afghans Tora Bora.
According to CBS 60 Minutes This was as close as America has come to avenging the premeditated murder of it's U.S.citizens in cold blood on 911. This was as close as George W. Bush had ever come to doing something right.
In 2001, just 10 weeks after 9/11, he was a 37-year-old Army major leading a team of America's most elite commandos. CBS 60 Minutes hired a theatrical make up artist to take this former Delta officer through a series of transformations to disguise him.

The administration's strategy was to let Afghans do most of the fighting. Using radio intercepts and other intelligence, the CIA pinpointed bin Laden in the mountains near the border of Pakistan. Following the strategy of keeping an Afghan face on the war, Fury's Delta team joined the CIA and Afghan fighters and piled into pickup trucks. They videotaped their journey to a place called Tora Bora.

Fury was looking at a ridgeline with an elevation of about 14,000 feet.

Right here you're looking at basically the battlefield from the last location that we had a firm on Osama bin Laden's location. It would be to attack such a position on a scale of one to ten in my experience it’s a ten.

Delta developed an audacious plan to come at bin Laden from the one direction he would never expect.

We want to come in on the back door. The original plan that we sent up through our higher headquarters, Delta Force wants to come in over the mountain with oxygen, coming from the Pakistan side, over the mountains and come in and get a drop on bin Laden from behind.

But they didn't take that route, because Fury says they didn't get approval from a higher level.

Whether that was Central Command all the way up to the president of the United States, I'm not sure.

The next option that Delta wanted to employ was to drop hundreds of landmines in the mountain passes that led to Pakistan, which was bin Laden’s escape route.

First guy blows his leg off, everybody else stops. That allows aircraft overhead to find them. They see all these heat sources out there. Okay, there a big large group of Al Qaeda moving south. They can engage that.

But they didn't do that either, because Fury says that plan was also disapproved. He says he has "no idea" why.
Delta has coming up with a tactical plan that's disapproved by higher headquarters.

In my experience, in my five years at Delta, never before.

Delta team had only about 50 men. So the mission would depend on the Afghan militia as guides and muscle. Their leader was a warlord and self-styled general named Ali.
Ali told to Fury after about 30 seconds of discussion, he kind of listened to me ramble on and then the first thing he said was: 'I don't think you guys can handle it. You can't handle Al Qaeda in these mountains', Ali said.

And this is where it gets complicated. At about the same time, the CIA, George, comes into our room and he says, 'Guys, I got a location for Osama bin Laden.' That's probably the best locational data we've had on Osama bin Laden ever.
We're about 2,000 meters away from where we think bin Laden's at still. From where we're at. Now we have to make a decision.

Fury had two choices: advance his small team with no Afghan support, or return to camp and assault in the morning. He was under orders to make the Afghans take the lead, and intelligence said there were more than 1,000 hardened fighters protecting bin Laden.

My decision to abort that effort to kill or capture bin Laden when we might have been with 2,000 meters of him, about 2,000 yards, still bothers me. It leaves me with a feeling of somehow letting down our nation at a critical time. Osama bin Laden might have been 500 meters way.

So there's always that doubt that we might have run into him. We also might got up there and found nothing. It wasn't worth the risk at that particular moment to go up there and play cowboy.

And then something extraordinary happened: Fury's Afghan allies announced they had negotiated a cease fire with al Qaeda, something the Americans had no interest in. When Fury's team advanced anyway, his Afghan partners drew their weapons on Delta. It took 12 hours to end the bogus cease fire, precious time for al Qaeda to move.
Fury says their assumption was that bin Laden was heading for a valley at that time.

Then Fury wrote down the translation of bin Laden's words as his team listened on the radio. ... Read more by CBS. This story was first published on Oct. 5, 2008. It was updated on July 11, 2009.