Remembering Johnny “Mike” Spann, 22 Years After He Became The First American Casualty Inside Afghanistan after 9/11
CIA Operations Officer was killed during a Taliban prisoner uprising during the Battle of Qala-I-Jangi Fortress...
CIA Operations Officer was killed during a Taliban prisoner uprising during the Battle of Qala-I-Jangi Fortress...
Spann, a CIA operations officer with Alpha Team, was the first American killed inside Afghanistan after 9/11, during the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, a prisoner uprising at the ancient fortress where American Taliban John Walker Lindh was held and interrogated by Spann....
Remembering Mike Spann, Roslyn Schulte, Jonathan Porto, Billie Taylor Presson, Christopher David Horton, the Cornell Class of 1944, and the other fallen, known and unknown....
Hearing the news of Osama bin Laden’s death brought forward many emotions and memories. One of those memories for me was the story of Johnny “Mike” Spann, from Winfield, Alabama, the first American killed in ... Afghanistan..., on November 25, 2001. Spann was a CIA operative, one of a small number of Americans who landed in Afghanistan, helped coordinate local forces hostile to the Taliban, and directed bombing and other military action. The story of this small band of men has been told, but not told enough.
Hearing the news of Osama bin Laden’s death brought forward many emotions and memories. One of those memories for me was the story of Johnny “Mike” Spann, from Winfield, Alabama, the first American killed in the Afghanistan war, on November 25, 2001.[*] Spann was a CIA operative, one of a small number of Americans who landed in Afghanistan, helped coordinate local forces hostile to the Taliban, and directed bombing and other military action. The story of this small band of men has been told, but not told enough. Spann was killed during the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi when Taliban prisoners gained access to weapons and attacked. Spann was killed during that uprising (see video). One of the prisoners was the so-called American Taliban, John Walker Lyndh, who Spann interrogated shortly before Spann’s death.
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