"The Longest Morning: Heroism, Courage, and
Sacrifice on a Rooftop in Samarra"
(Cover Story, November 2007)
In the Iraqi city of Samarra, four paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division became the object of a pre-planned, coordinated effort by dozens of al Qadea to kidnap and American soldiers only days before General Petraeus's internationally televised testimony before the U.S. Congress on the state of the war in Iraq.
This is their story.