The FBI’s transformation from a crime-fighting agency to a counterterrorism organization in the wake of the Sept. Who, the relative asked, was this man - the one represented by a blue dot and nearly killed by the suicide bomber?Īfter some hesitation, the military briefers answered with three letters: FBI. In a review of the nighttime strike for a relative of one of the dead Rangers, military officials sketched out the sequence of events using small dots to chart the soldiers’ movements. A third member of the team was knocked unconscious and shredded by ball bearings when a teenage insurgent detonated a suicide vest. Special Operations forces raided several houses in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in March 2006, two Army Rangers were killed when gunfire erupted on the ground floor of one home.
