HOW POETRY LEAD MIKE TUCKER INTO COUNTER TERRORISM

<p>Mike Tucker infiltrated the Arabian Peninsula in March 2010, covertly lashed up with the Bedouin and was a counterterrorist <em>Ronin</em> against Al Qaeda inside Saudi Arabia from 2010-2015. He was under fire with Spanish counterterrorists on the second day of the Siege of the Banco Central in Barcelona, May 24, 1981, which ended the threat of a fascist dictatorship returning to Spain. Embedded with American snipers in the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War, he was wounded in the Hindu Kush in 2009 on a mission against Al Qaeda, the Taliban and Lashkar E Taiba terrorists in Afghanistan. A Marine infantry veteran from a unit tasked with counterterrorism and special operations, he worked as a concrete and demolition laborer and aided refugees during his apprenticeship as a poet and writer in Washington, D.C. from 1983-86</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>