Iran put a $60,000 bounty on an American colonel. Local businesses in southern Iran piled on with their own rewards. Iranian state television broadcast the wreckage of his F-15E on a loop. Search parties fanned out across the mountains of Isfahan province.
America’s answer came on Easter Sunday morning. “WE GOT HIM,” President Trump posted. “WE WILL NEVER LEAVE AN AMERICAN WARFIGHTER BEHIND.” The weapons systems officer, a colonel who was seriously wounded and hiding in a mountain crevice with little more than a pistol, had been rescued in what Trump called “one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History.” He called it an Easter miracle. It was.
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