But this is no military commando setting out to fight a distant foreign enemy or a band of ruthless terrorists; the heavily armed men are not soldiers.
My dad used to say: "All right, I'm going to slow the car down, you do a commando roll out, I'll toss you the guitar and pick you up at three," because there'd be these Dominican guys having pool cue fights in the street.
The commandos fanned out to search the area.
But he said he was also struck that Bin Laden was not prepared for the kind of attack the commandos carried out.
CAIRO — American commandos carried out raids on Saturday in two far-flung African countries in a powerful flex of military muscle aimed at capturing fugitive terrorist suspects.
Two years earlier, in September 2008, American commandos carried out a raid in Pakistan's tribal areas and killed several people suspected of being insurgents.
Just before dawn on June 25th, eight Palestinian commandos crawled out of a tunnel into a grove of trees in Kerem Shalom.
When it was time to go, the commandos moved out in their Dodges, and Bennett's team followed in three armored Humvees.
Controversy over a Peruvian judge's order to arrest 12 army officers who helped end a 1997 hostage siege heated up today when two men rescued by the commandos spoke out in their defense.
It is a risky moment for the president, because the battle has moved from one of air power to one of ground operations, with hundreds of American commandos fanning out across the country.
