Nothing could prepare the Mafia hunters for the tension as the moment of truth approached. Gathered around a screen receiving live images from drones hovering above a hospital in the suburbs of Palermo, Sicily, some of the police chiefs looked on in silence. Others whispered prayers and drew crucifixes across their navy blue jackets.As the clock ticked down to 9.15am on Monday, the nerve-shredding scene inside their HQ was reminiscent of the bunker on the day U.S. forces killed Osama Bin Laden.
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