In the early morning hours of Saturday, the US military conducted a special operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.  

Spearheaded by the Army’s elite Delta Force, the operation was successful. Maduro and his spouse appeared before a federal judge on Monday, pleading not guilty to charges of drug trafficking.

More than 150 military aircraft were involved in the operation. However, it was a small number of special operations helicopters and crews that made the successful mission possible.  

The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known as the Night Stalkers, inserted and extracted the Delta Force assault force that captured Maduro and his wife. The........

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