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U.S. CREATES TASK FORCE TO TARGET AL-ZARQAWI
Fox News ^ | 9-24-2004 | Fox News

Posted on 09/24/2004 6:46:32 AM PDT by marty60

U.S. Creates Task Force to Target Al-Zarqawi

Friday, September 24, 2004

WASHINGTON — U.S. military planners have assembled a special task force charged with finding and neutralizing Jordanian terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (search), U.S. officials told FOX News.

Known as Task Force 626, the operation is assembled along the same lines as that of Task Force 121 (search), which searched months before capturing Saddam Hussein and is still hunting Usama bin Laden.

Task Force 626 is smaller than its higher-profile sibling but is similarly made up of CIA operatives, special operations troops from the Navy and the Army, and a handful of investigators.

Members of 626 have fanned out in areas ranging from Baghdad to Fallujah and other areas in the contested al Anbar province in search of al-Zarqawi. While al-Zarqawi is still at large, officials say the task force and other military units have been very successful in eliminating many leaders of his group's leadership.

Many key al-Zarqawi figures have been "whacked," one official told FOX News, citing the missile strike that took out al-Zarqawi's spiritual guide and advisor late last week.

Officials believe they may have taken out as much as half of the members of the senior leadership of al-Zarqawi's group, Tawhid and Jihad (search) — whose name is loosely translated as "Monotheism and Holy War," but they caution that the group harbors many more figures who could rise up and take their places.

Tawhid and Jihad this week claimed responsibility for kidnapping and killing two Americans — Jack Hensley (search) and Eugene Armstrong (search). The group is still holding Briton Kenneth Bigley (search).

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 626; alzarqawi; iraq; napalminthemorning; taskforce121; taskforce626; terrorists; zarqawi
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To: marty60
I want his f*cking head cut off and held up to the rest of the world like Perseus and Medusa
121 posted on 09/24/2004 1:48:11 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: marty60
Is he (Zarqawi) dead yet? Have they blown him (Zarqawi)to smitherins yet?

I have been too busy today to freep :(

122 posted on 09/24/2004 1:59:33 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: snakeoil

Hehehe, I win only because I fight this issue all the time as I'm writing, constantly trying to figure out what to cap and what not to cap. I have a copy of CMOS (Chicago Manual of Style, THE authority on such issues) but it's a pain to look this stuff up, so I usually cave and ask my friend who proofs and copyedits for several of the big publishing houses. :-)

MM


123 posted on 09/24/2004 2:08:42 PM PDT by MississippiMan (Americans should not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.)
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To: diamond6

General Pershing used to bury the Muslims in the Phillipines face down and covered in pig fat.


124 posted on 09/24/2004 2:16:24 PM PDT by Beckwith (John Kerry, sign the Form 180 - petition at http://www.SignForm180.com)
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To: Beckwith

A previous freeper said that this is a myth?????


125 posted on 09/24/2004 2:22:52 PM PDT by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: smith288

do you think they use Stitch on their letterhead? Do you think the army and navy guys have little Stitch emblems sewn on their shoulders?


126 posted on 09/24/2004 2:26:13 PM PDT by BBell
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To: valleygal

Didn't they lure him out for a story, then take him captive in Pakistan. We are talking about the NYT reporter right?


127 posted on 09/24/2004 2:50:19 PM PDT by marty60
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To: Stellar Dendrite

You know how the G-Men use to lay the gangters out in a row and let the photogs take their pictures. I think that would be perfect.


128 posted on 09/24/2004 2:54:06 PM PDT by marty60
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To: drc43

129 posted on 09/24/2004 2:55:31 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (President Kerry - - there, scared ya didn't I?)
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To: marty60

130 posted on 09/24/2004 3:14:30 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

That's better. Fox just had some maniac Islamofascist, spouting skerry's line in Iraq. Calling Allawi a puppet and Bush a criminal. It didnt take long for skerry to get his hoped for results.


131 posted on 09/24/2004 3:20:32 PM PDT by marty60
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To: dwilli
This has not been in operation for months? Unbelievable

You're right that is unbelievable. That's why I don't believe it.

Sounds like this 626 HAS been fanning out for a while.

Most like, the above describes what the 626 HAS accomplish up until now.

No?

132 posted on 09/24/2004 3:21:16 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: cwiz24
The task force probably should be named '666'

They're saving that one for hillary.

133 posted on 09/24/2004 3:26:24 PM PDT by Freebird Forever
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To: FreeReign
Don't you think it strange that noone has seen this murderer except behind a black hood? I never seen a report of him being spotted or thought to be in a particular area.

Osama was/is independently wealthy and was/is thought to be financing his operations. What or who is financing Zarqawi? I've never heard of an attempt to go after his money suppliers.

134 posted on 09/24/2004 3:49:28 PM PDT by dwilli
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To: All

I believe he hide in Fallujah .


135 posted on 09/24/2004 4:04:04 PM PDT by Nepalis (Bomb to Fallujah , everyday)
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To: diamond6
General Jack Pershing in the Phillipines used pigs against the terrorists(Muslims). It was very effective.
136 posted on 09/24/2004 4:55:50 PM PDT by privatedick
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To: marty60

Better late than never. Wonderful news.


137 posted on 09/24/2004 5:02:21 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er ({about the news media} "We'll tell you any sh** you want hear" : Howard Beale --> NETWORK)
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To: Heavyrunner

>>Heh-heh. Isn't Experiment 626 the project name for Stitch in the "Lilo and Stitch" movie?

You are correct.


138 posted on 09/24/2004 5:46:48 PM PDT by dmartin
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To: marty60

What's the rush?


139 posted on 09/24/2004 5:48:40 PM PDT by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: WVNan
It makes us look weak when we fail to carry out the plans, ala Bin Laden

So you've seen Bin Laden recently? I don't think even the Jihadis think he is alive.
140 posted on 09/24/2004 6:52:31 PM PDT by TimPatriot
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