No Easy Day Summary

Osama`s Terror almost caught up to me No Easy Day by Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer is the firsthand account of the mission that killed Bin Laden. The mission was called operation Neptune Spear, where Mark Owen was tasked with leading a team of Seals into the guest house of the compound that held Bin Laden. Laden`s compound was in Abbottabad, Pakistan. I was born and lived in Pakistan for thirteen years of my life. Reading No Easy Day gave me insights on the terrors that happened in Pakistan. The book was about a sadistic man who lived in Pakistan, a place in the book where I grew up and visited many of the locals mentioned; that had a huge impact on me personally. Reading the book brought back all the memories that made me realize the purpose of life.
As I was reading the book I started to recognize some of the places that I had been to and started to wonder if Osama …show more content…
I, on the other hand, experienced what happened in the streets. Just miles from the military base in Abbottabad, Pakistan children and adults were being kidnapped every day and forced into doing Bin Laden`s bidding. I lived In Lahore, Pakistan a city almost three-hundred miles away from Bin Laden and he still found a way to get his terror into my city. In fact, one of my personal experiences with terrorists was when I almost got kidnaped by them at age twelve. I was walking to my neighborhood friend`s house and a white van followed me, but nothing happened to me as I arrived at my friend’s house. On my way back home that night, I spotted the same van as it stopped in front of my house. I got scared and abruptly started running back in the opposite direction, and the van shadowed me. Suddenly, I see a huge crowed about five blocks away and hope to lose, the van, there. Then, I started yelling and pointing at the van. The people in the crowd looked at me like I was a crazy kid, but the attention from the crowd scared the van