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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I have been too busy today to freep :(
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. :-)
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General Pershing used to bury the Muslims in the Phillipines face down and covered in pig fat.
A previous freeper said that this is a myth?????
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?
Didn't they lure him out for a story, then take him captive in Pakistan. We are talking about the NYT reporter right?
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.
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.
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?
They're saving that one for hillary.
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.
Better late than never. Wonderful news.
>>Heh-heh. Isn't Experiment 626 the project name for Stitch in the "Lilo and Stitch" movie?
You are correct.
What's the rush?
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