Season 1: Nov 2001—May 2002. A black senator runs for president. Jack saves the candidate’s life, but Jack’s wife Terri is killed.
Episode 1 of Season 1 aired in Nov 2001, during a very challenging period in my life, and in the life of my Army and my Nation. This violent TV drama about counter terrorism came along weeks after 9/11 changed my world forever. My boss, Lieutenant General Timothy Maude, and two dozen other co-workers had just been killed in the attack on the Pentagon. Another two dozen from my office were injured, some very badly.
In November, we were in temporary offices in the Hoffman Building while the damaged portion of the Pentagon was being cleared, cleaned, and repaired. At that same time:
- Special Operations Forces were deployed to Afghanistan to hunt for bin Ladin;
- anthrax spores sent to media and legislative offices killed 5 and infected 17; and
- back at the Pentagon, crime scene investigators were still sifting through the ashes for identifiable remains of some of our missing colleagues, the last three of whom were finally laid to rest Dec 11th.
Operation Anaconda took place in March of 2002, near the end of the first season of 24. Then-Major General "Buster" Hagenbeck, who would later come to the Pentagon to occupy LTG Maude's refurbished office as the G-1, was in charge of that operation. Whether Anaconda was a success or a failure is not an easy question to answer.
The bottom line: Osama bin Laden escaped.
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