In December 2001 CIA Director of Counterintelligence Dietz paired LCDR Judah Wakefield from Naval Intel and Navy Seal David Rivers in an undercover op to bring home six Americans imprisoned in Afghanistan. While posing as a doctor and nurse to aid the prisoners while the US and provisional Afghani governments were in negotiations, the headstrong pair were also secretly tasked by the CIA to find a six-pack of nukes strongly rumored to be in the hands of an al Qaeda sect headed by a man who was out to make a name for himself and grab the leadership reigns of the terrorist organization because of his father's name, bin Laden.