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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It also loses their PR tool, dead women and babies.
I thought the guy had one leg. Maybe I got my freaks confused
Yes I cheered for him tooo.
They hope to catch him in an old Mazda.
Absolutely not, they think they are winning by the rantings of the Evil Dums and the skerry campaign. Why do you think they have no qualms about beheading innocent humans. (besides the obvious, keep the terrorists in line). It also, lets the American people know that there is a lot more to this then the msm wants you to believe.
I agree, although I would like to watch him begging for his life, getting his head sawed off with a dull knife, and his fat head put on a stick! Let the iraqis at 'em.
There you go...this takes their PR stunts away. Remember the picture (last week) of the pristine baby cradle sitting neatly on top of the surgical strike on Satan's son.
I'm sure that many of us in the "pajama patrol" wanted to stand up and cheer when PM Allawi b-slapped the media yesterday, talking about how the naysayers have been wrong about...well, just about everything concerning Iraq (and, by extension, Afghanistan).
For some reason, I have this picture of a scene from Braveheart, where one of the guys is sleeping, and Wallace comes in on his horse, and shot-puts him into his date with 72 virgins...
Thank you. I didn't realize the link wasn't working.
Isn't that the Laden butt kisser, from Egypt or Saudi?
It didn't happen.
meaning???
that he is back across the border, safely in Iran or Syria.
I can imagine several different ways that they will get him. One way is to turn their tactic of kidnapping into targeting with sub-dermal GPS implants in volunteers who allow themselves to be kidnapped. It will take a few very brave folks to do it but I wouldn't be surprized if thats the way they exterminate these vermin.
While we're at it, let's target the uranium-enrichment facility in Iran and erase that cancer too.
Here's an idea: Take him alive, then stake him out on a pig yard and smear him with peanut butter. Videotape the pigs eating him alive and send the tape to All-Jeersatya and all other Arab/Muslim news organs. Maybe they'll actually air it.
Kill them all and there is no doubt
probably taking the kidnap-ees across the border and killing them in another country where it is safe... and then gets the video out without any resistance or tracking whatever. We don't have a lot of assets on the ground in Iran or Syria.
Who knows, they could be flying them out to Pakistan/Afghanistan, and we would not know it... not yet that is.
That's Israel's specialty.
Hehe, boy you are imaginative.
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