| Six Minutes to Freedom |
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 Mention the name Kurt Muse in certain quarters of the U.S. intelligence community and the response is likely to be mixed. Some will call him a patriot, while others will call him a fool. Some will call him courageous, and others will tell you that he's a trouble maker.Mention his name among the super-secret Delta Force operators, though, and conversation stops. To them, to a man, Kurt Muse is an unequivocal hero, a man who survived unspeakable deprivations and imprisonment only to turn away his single opportunity for release because it would have meant asking a favor from a brutal dictator toward whose demise he had dedicated–and nearly lost–his life. This, from men who were chewed alive by gunfire while effecting Kurt's rescue in the opening moments of Operation Just Cause, the U.S. invasion of Panama. Six Minutes to Freedom is the story of a patriotic man with a patriotic cause. Bits and pieces have been told before: an article here, a History Channel documentary there, but those efforts all focused solely on the third act of what is a truly remarkable tale of courage against impossible odds as a cadre of six acquaintances signed their own death warrants, united in their singular desire to topple Manuel Noriega and see him pay for the beatings and brutal murders that were an everyday part of Panamanian life in 1988 and 1989. Six Minutes to Freedom is Kurt Muse's story: a tale of incredible courage and ingenuity, and of one man's willingness to risk everything for the country and people he loves. |