article_snippet.sent: In the throne book The Crossroad, Corporal Donaldson revealed how the SAS regiment had uncovered a Taliban fighter codenamed Javelin in Afghanistan in 2008.
article_snippet.sent: Targeted by the Taliban:
article_snippet.sent: two targets codenamed Longbow and Javelin were supposed to be important Taliban commanders.'
article_snippet.sent: On the first night time attempt by Corporal Donaldson and Corporal Donaldson fellow Australian commandos, Donaldson and his fellow Australian commandos entered the compound where Javelin was based, in Uruzgan province,a Taliban stronghold in central Afghanistan, but the commander got away.
article_snippet.sent: On September 2, 2008, just  weeks after Corporal Mark Donaldson first attempt to kill the Taliban warlord Javelin, the SAS trooper and twelve other Australians in a military convoy were ambushed by a large group of insurgents.