resulting in the death of about six u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. moving up the chain of command, special forces figured out roughly where he was and began drawing up mission plans to do a clandesti clandestine commando raid to take him, everyon figuring out the number of soldiers guarding him. those plans were shelved because there was a sense that the price was too high for going after someone who was deemed by the pentagon to have walked away from his post. you have to ask yourself if an american backpacker who wasn't involved in the u.s. military had gone missing in afghanistan around the same time and found to be held by the taliban, would the most elite special u.s. forces launch a raid and get