Onemoonlessnight, whileflyingaroutinetraining mission over the Pacific, Iwondered whatthe skywould look like from 84,000 feet ifthecockpitlighting were dark.
All the electricity in the compound and the surrounding neighborhood was off on a moonlessnight and the SEALs were all wearing night vision goggles, which only allowed them limited vision.
Thirty-four years later and thousands of miles west, Abdulrahman Zeitoun was in bed on a Friday morning, slowly leaving the moonless Jableh night, a tattered memory of it caught in a morning dream.