A US Army helicopter pilot has described the moment he and his colleagues rescued 23 Iraqis from a torture house, including five who were scheduled to be beheaded.
Alan Mack, from Orange County, served as a member of the elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment and has told of his involvement in the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, as well as the remarkable rescue operation during the Iraq war.
It is 20 years since US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair greenlighted sending their troops in to topple the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and restore so-called order to the county.
