Beginning at around 5:30 a.m., intelligence officers at Gariban started intercepting radio messages from the Taliban in and around the village of Sarenzai. The radio traffic indicated that Clint’s platoon at Payenzai was about to be ambushed. In other words, the Taliban had targeted Clint’s patrol for an ambush from the moment they stepped off on their mission that morning. The radio traffic from Taliban sources about the ambush to Clint’s platoon, started at 6:19 a.m.
