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One of Mulroy's assignments in the CIA was as the head or Chief of a Base on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan called Shkin. This base was described by Time Magazine as the “most dangerous place on earth.” <ref>https://twitter.com/mpolymer/status/1313427602166738944?s=21</ref><ref>http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,526466,00.html</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_6f_3DobpdwC&q=shkin%2C+afghanistan%2C+most+dangerous&pg=PA110|title = Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army|isbn = 9781568584065|last1 = Scahill|first1 = Jeremy|date = May 27, 2008}}</ref> In the book ''Obama’s War'', [[Bob Woodward]] also explained that the CIA created Counter-Terrorism Pursuit Teams that are considered the “best Afghan fight force” and that Shkin base (also known as FOB Lilley) was a nerve center for their operations.<ref>https://archive.org/details/obamaswars00bobw</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/22/AR2010092206141.html</ref>
One of Mulroy's assignments in the CIA was as the head or Chief of a Base on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan called Shkin. This base was described by Time Magazine as the “most dangerous place on earth.” <ref>https://twitter.com/mpolymer/status/1313427602166738944?s=21</ref><ref>http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,526466,00.html</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_6f_3DobpdwC&q=shkin%2C+afghanistan%2C+most+dangerous&pg=PA110|title = Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army|isbn = 9781568584065|last1 = Scahill|first1 = Jeremy|date = May 27, 2008}}</ref> In the book ''Obama’s War'', [[Bob Woodward]] also explained that the CIA created Counter-Terrorism Pursuit Teams that are considered the “best Afghan fight force” and that Shkin base (also known as FOB Lilley) was a nerve center for their operations.<ref>https://archive.org/details/obamaswars00bobw</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/22/AR2010092206141.html</ref>
In the book ''Madman Theory'', about the foreign policy of the Trump Administration, author Jim Scuitto states that Mulroy was on the initial team into Northern Iraq in 2003 and fought along with the Kurdish [[Peshmerga]] with U.S. Army Special Forces.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sciutto |first=Jim |date=August 11, 2020 |title=The Madman Theory |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-madman-theory-jim-sciutto?variant=32117494939682 |publisher=Harper |page=203 |isbn=9780063005686}}</ref> In the book Mulroy describes the Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria as one of the few “partner forces where you can absolutely count on sticking in a fighting position with you, to the end.”<ref>{{cite book |last=Sciutto |first=Jim |date=August 11, 2020 |title=The Madman Theory |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-madman-theory-jim-sciutto?variant=32117494939682 |publisher=Harper |page=208 |isbn=9780063005686}}</ref>
== Military service ==
== Military service ==