SEAL Team 6 Hunts Saleh Ali Nabhan - Operation Celestial Balance in Somalia

Two embassies shatter. A manhunt begins. And one covert plan targets the mastermind in the most dangerous city in Africa. From Nairobi and Dar es Salaam to Mogadishu’s backstreets, follow how a little-known CIA operative, John Bennett, builds an intelligence net from scratch: bribing warlords, flipping truckers into spies, and tapping phones with silent ScanEagle eyes in the sky. A foiled plot to crash a plane into the new Nairobi embassy raises the stakes, while Shabaab’s sudden rise and an unexpected Ethiopian invasion flip the battlefield overnight. As the trail tightens on Ras Kamboni and then south of the capital, commanders in Washington face a brutal choice: missiles, gunships, or boots on the ground. What made the target vulnerable? Which clue finally fixed his location? And how did SEAL Team 6 move in without tipping off the convoy? Watch the full story behind Operation Celestial Balance and the high-risk decisions that defined the hunt for Saleh Ali Nabhan and Fazul Mohammed. #CIADeclassified #SEALTeam6 #Somalia #AlQaeda #OperationCelestialBalance #Mogadishu #EmbassyBombings #Intelligence