Mission Compromised is a novel by Oliver North that details the story of one of the most secretive military units in history. Lt-Col. ...

The Unit

The United Nations International Sanctions Enforcement Group (ISEG)is a top-secret special operations unit that is comprised of the top spec ops soldiers in the U.S. Military and the UK's SAS. The ISEG receives its orders directly from the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, who is acting under the direction of the UN. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization that describes itself as a global association of governments facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity. ...

The ISETs

The ISEG is further sub-divided into five teams, referred to as International Sanctions Enforcement Teams. Each ISET is designated to cover a specific geographical region:

• ISET Alpha - Asia and Pacific region
• ISET Bravo - Africa region
• ISET Charlie - Eastern Europe and Balkans region
• ISET Delta - Central and South American region
• ISET Echo - Middle East, Persian Gulf, and Southwest Asia region

In all there are thirty-five men in the ISEG, seven per team. The ISEG command element consists of five U.S. Military officers and one enlisted man.

Characters

Special Projects Office (SPO)

• Lieutenant Colonel Peter James Newman, USMC; Commanding Officer, Special Projects Office and UN ISEG
• Lieutenant Tom McDade, USN; former Navy SEAL instructor, currently assigned as Operations and Training Director in the SPO
• Captain Bart Coombs, USA; former Delta operator, currently assigned as Intelligence and Communications Director in the SPO
• Captain Dan Robertson, USAF; former Spec Ops pilot, currently assigned as Logistics and Supply Director in the SPO
• First Lieutenant Sonia Duvall, USA; administration assistant in the SPO

U.S. Government

• National Security Advisor Dr. Simon Harrod; Newman's new superior who despises everything military
• Lieutenant General Harry Tatum, USA; Operations Director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Brigadier General James Harris, USAF; Commanding Officer, Incilirk Air Base, Turkey
• Lieutenant General George Grisham, USMC; Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Operations and Plans Department

United Nations

• First Deputy Secretary General of the UN Dimitri Komulakov; Harrod's superior at the UN, is also a former KGB agent
• Major Wilbur Ellwood, UK SAS; Chief Watch Officer, UN Command Center

ISEG

• Captain Joshua Weiskoph, USA; chief of the ISEG, reports directly to Newman
• Captain Bruno Macklin, UK SAS; Weiskoph's Executive Officer
• Sergeant Major Dan Gabbard, USMC; the senior enlisted man in the ISEG

Others

• Rachel Newman; Peter Newman's wife, who is a flight attendent with TWA
• Leonid Dotensk; a former KGB agent who is now selling Russian weapons to Iraq
• Hussein Kamil; son-in-law of Saddam Hussein, Commanding Officer of the Amn Al-Khass, Iraq's feared security service

Overview

The book begins with Dr. Simon Harrod, the NSA, briefing then Maj. Newman on his new assignment, the National Security Council's Special Projects Office. This position was formerly held by Oliver North. Newman at first resists his new assignment, but Harrod wins him over after telling him his first assignment is to go afer Mohammed Farah Aidid, the Somali terrorist who killed Newman's brother Jim, a Delta soldier, in Mogadashu in 1993. Harrod then gives Newman the specifics about the ISEG, who will be able to circumvent Executive Order 123333.

Newman meets the ISEG at Andrews Air Force Base. He then begins training them in Fort Bragg for their assignment in Mogadashu. Then, UN Secretary Komulakov tells Harrod that the new assignment is to attack Saddam Hussein's palace in Tikrit on March 6, where Saddam will be holding a meeting of the world's terror leaders. Aidid is not asked to attend, however, Harrod tells Newman that Aidid will be there to make it easier to change the mission.

Unbeknownst to Newman and the ISEG, Komulakov and Dotensk have been selling Soviet-era nuclear weapons to Iraq, primarily through Hussein Kamil. Kamil will also be at the March 6 meeting in Tikrit. This poses a problem because Kamil is currently Komulakov's and Dotensk's only customer.

The ISEG deploys and Newman inserts ISET Echo and Weiskoph into Iraq. They make their way to Tikrit and "paint" Saddam's palace with a Laser Target Designator (LTD). Newman launches a Global Hawk UAV, which is loaded with explosives, to crash into Saddam's palace, killing all of the world's terror leaders. The plan seems okay, but Komulakov has other plans.

Komulakov monitors ISET Echo's movements from the UN Command Center. He relays the coordinates of ISET Echo to Dotensk, who relays them to Kamil. Kamil then sends Amn Al-Khass soldiers to kill ISET Echo. After a battle with American F-15s, most of the Iraqi soldiers are killed, but they managed to kill ISET Echo. The LTD is damaged and won't function. Newman reconfigures the Global Hawk to manually crash into the palace. A huge explosion happens, but Saddam and his guests are unharmed.

Newman's command aircraft is shot down over Iraq. He meets up with an Iraqi, Eli Yusef Habib, who helps him make it into Syria. After Newman makes it into Turkey, he goes to Iskenderun. There he meets up with William Goode, a friend of Oliver North. Goode takes Newman to Cyprus, where they meet up with Grisham and Rachel. Unfortunately, terrorists destroy the Goode's boat when Newman and Rachel are on board, killing them both.