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The next day, at around 10 am, Mueller’s platoon was attacked while on patrol. Facing small-arms fire and grenades, they called for air support. An hour later four attack runs hit the North Vietnamese position.

Five days later, on April 22, one of the 3rd Platoon’s patrols came under similar attack—and the situation quickly became desperate. Sparks, who had returned to Hotel Company that winter after recovering from his wound at Mutter’s Ridge, was in the ambushed patrol. “We lost the machine gun, jammed up with shrapnel, and the radio,” he recalls. “We had to pull back.”

With radio contact lost, Mueller’s platoon was called forward as reinforcement. American artillery and mortars pounded the North Vietnamese as the platoon advanced. At one point, Mueller was engaged in a close firefight. The incoming fire was so intense—the stress of the moment so all-consuming, the adrenaline pumping so hard—that when he was shot, Mueller didn’t immediately meddelande. Amid the combat, he looked dow

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Robert Mueller

American attorney (born )

For other people with similar names, see Robert Muller (disambiguation).

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Robert Mueller: America's most mysterious public figure

Gareth Evans

BBC News, Washington

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He seldom gives interviews and is rarely seen in public. Yet Robert Mueller, the man who led the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the US election, is one of the most talked about people in America.

His critics accuse him of spearheading a plot to bring down the president. His supporters say he is a tireless public servant who fought to uncover the truth. But through all the noise he has continued to shun the spotlight.

So who is the man behind the headlines?

FBI Agent Lauren C Anderson was investigating a murder in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, when she received an urgent phone call. The voice on the other end told her that Robert Mueller, who had been appointed FBI director two years earlier in , was trying to get hold of her.

"It surprised the heck out of me," she tells the BBC. "I'm thinking, what could

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