Meant to last under five minutes, this Delta Force mission spiraled into one of the most dangerous rescue ops in modern U.S. military history. Here’s how Acid Gambit nearly collapsed.

Operation Acid Gambit required Army Special Forces to land on the prison roof, kill Muse's would-be executioner, fight their way to his cell, break open the lock and extract their "precious cargo ...

During Operation Acid Gambit, a disastrous rescue mission that was only supposed to take four and a half minutes and be one of the opening operations of the 1989 US invasion of Panama, Delta Force ...

As 27,000 U.S. troops began Operation Just Cause, 23 Delta operators and four MH-6 Little Bird helicopters from the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment launched Operation Acid Gambit.