Sometimes things happen that defy reason. A man beats odds of 17 million to one and wins a Lottery, you draw a Royal Straight flush. This is a report about two woman who would have suffered a cruel and drawn-out death except for the actions of a small child and two good men.
Grab a beer, get the feet up and follow SEAL 6 as I tell you a no shitter.
Gail Thomas, Jane Roberts, and Dee Dee Desato owned and operated the "Far Away" gift shop in New York City. Their reputation was made by having on sale items not found anywhere else. So it was that Gail and Jane were in Egypt hunting for items to sell in their shop. They received information from a sly deceitful old man that he knew of some woman in Libya who could put them into contact with Pdean Rashaad, a merchant connected to the Libya Mafia that could secure for them items of great beauty.
Greed and a sense of adventure were more powerful then good sense. Jane and Gail found a cab driver who knew a way for them to get to Aj Kufrah, Libya without being checked by border guards. A small house was rented in the North west outskirts of the city. The cabbie then set off to locate the Woman that they were to contact. Gail plugged in her lap top computer and typed a E-mail to Dee Dee, who was still in New York. She had finished all but the address when their contact woman and her four year old son arrived. They sat in the living room. In a couple minutes the boy wandered into the kitchen where the computer sat running.
Her little fingers hit the right side of the keyboard and printed this address: mklp=opikmjklokloikmlko. He moved the cursor to the send now area and hit the button. Gail's message was sent, but not to Dee Dee.
Major Tug MaGraw, USMC, was the duty officer, covert missions, CIA Langley. His message screen came to life, and at the same time his printer activated to drop a printout of the message into his basket. In fourteen seconds he read the message and had flipped switches putting the message onto the screens of Houston NASA, CIA Computer tracking, CIA Operations Command, and Combat information control of the carrier Yorktown in the Mediterranean. Tug ordered that two SEALS be taken to Egypt. There they would be flown at 30,000 feet into Libya airspace for a drop.
CIA using pictures from redirected cameras that Houston NASA had focused on Aj Kufrah and had located the building that Gail and Jane were in.
Why all this activity? Gail is a street wise worldly woman that has lived all her life in New York City. She and her partners had developed a sarcastic descriptive vocabulary to describe how men reacted to them, and their business dealings. Gail was 38, stood 5' 9," and weight 139. Jane was 40, stood 5' 11'' and weight 133. Either woman would turn heads where ever they were in the world. Here is Gail's E-mail, what she meant and what Tug believed she intended.
DD (S. Dee Dee) (T. Delta Division) We are holed up in Aj Kufrah, surrounded by the enemy. Attack by Bin Laden men later today. (S. Where we are, some ugly man to deal with, will surely try to bed them.) (T. Ongoing fire fight with local terrorists.) We hope to secure some prize goods and depart without being identified so that we can come again. (S. open a channel for further business.) (T. Undercover agent has access to information and if they can kill the attackers and get away his cover won't be broken.) GT (S. her.) (T. The call sign of an actual agent in the area.)