Ten years after Darren LaBonte lost his life after a CIA operation in Afghanistan went wrong, his family celebrates his memory.
LaBonte initially joined the agency's paramilitary arm, the Special Activities Division, which often conducts joint operations with Navy SEALs and the Army's Delta Force. He deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, his family said.
LaBonte, who had flown in from Jordan with Zeid, expressed reservations about the meeting to his superiors at the CIA — and also to his father. Racheal, Raina and LaBonte's parents and brother were vacationing at a Tuscan villa, waiting for Darren to join them after the meeting. The farmhouse was so remote that the CIA couldn't find it. The Amman station chief had to break the news by phone.
He remembers"the cries and the wails of his friends who knew that he was gone," he said."A terrible day. It's something I will never forget."
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