Dan O'Shea

Commander Dan O’Shea is a retired Navy SEAL. He established and served as the Coordinator of the Hostage Working Group US Embassy (Baghdad) Iraq from 2004-2006. O'Shea arrived at the height of the Al Qaeda inspired hostage-taking crisis where 40-50 foreigners were being kidnapped every month. He managed the inter-agency coordination of more than 400 hostage-taking incidents during his time in Iraq. Kidnappings were in single digits with only one hostage incident in the final month of his tour.

OPINION November 29

President Biden is on a dangerous path negotiating for Hamas hostages

The modern world was introduced to hostage terrorism when Iran held 66 Americans in Teheran for 444 days