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 certainly hope so!
I would make it manditory that every worker in Irac have a micro chip, to pinpoint where they are when abducted.
Hummm, that may be a good idea. And make sure the terrorist know about it.
If I were working over there, I would INSIST on having one.
Great! I thought the same thing when I read this.
Too funny!
I know, TMI, but I think it leaves no doubt from where they got the number. :-)Plot Summary for Lilo & Stitch (2002)
In a place far, far away, illegal genetic experiment #626 is detected: Ruthless scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba has created a strong, intelligent, nearly indestructible and aggressive being with only one known weakness: The high density of his body makes it impossible for the experiment to swim in water. The scientist is sentenced to jail by the Grand Council of the Galactic Federation. The experiment is supposed to be transported to a prison asteroid, yet manages to escape Captain Gantu, who was supposed to deliver him there. With a stolen police cruiser (the red one), the destructive being races towards a little and already doomed planet: Earth. Stranded on Hawaii, experiment #626 can't actually do much harm: water all around, no big cities and two well-equipped representatives of the Galactic Federation already following close behind to catch him again. But Dr. Jookiba and the Earth expert Pleakley never could have guessed that earth girl Lilo adopts the experiment as a dog, gives him the name Stitch and actually causes an emotional development in the little beast. Her dysfunctional family, consisting only of Lilo and her sister Nani, is about to be ripped apart by social worker Cobra. Stitch as the new family member brings quite some action into all their lifes, and after a while, not even Pleakley and Dr. Jookiba can recognize their former target. But how shall they bring the news of failure to the Grand Councilwoman without being punished?
if as the terrorists preach that all non-Islamofascists are pigs. And somehow they are terrified of anything to do with pigs. I believe someone posted that it's some kind of grave sin to be associated with pigs.
Then just by the fact that ZaSatan has the blood of "pigs", actual blood, isn't he disqualified to be a Islamofascist leader.
The Islamoterrorists use the horrible images of innocents being beheaded because it is the most terrifying thing they can think of happening to themselves, so surely it must be terrifying to us.
Just speculation here, but maybe visiting that terror on a few terror-supporting CAIR leaders here and broadcasting it throughout the mideast might get their attention.
Naturally I would expect that the brave patriots who actually did this would be arrested and prosecuted. It would not be the first time in this country's history when imprisonment was a price payed for freedom from tyranny.
Could be. I lose track of who has missing eyes, limbs, etc. They all sound the same to me.
IMHO, when it is at all possible, all the "video's" are shot in ONE DAY, or in "film-talk", are "in the can"(i.e. the initial one of the capture, the begging part, and the killings.)
Why not do it that way? If they did it THAT way, it's quick, done, the killers can leave the area, and all that has to be done is release the tapes in order of maximum effect, and make it seem like these folks "can't be stopped" and makes Al-Zarqawi look like he is invincible, when in reality, he's back to his cowardly burka wearing ways out of site somewhere.
If it was me doing this crap, that's how I'd do it to get maximum effect and avoid capture.
....although the guy that controls the earthly "lightning" would know EXACTLY where I was, what I was doing, and I don't think our first face to face meeting would be at all pleasant.....
Much better prospects for success than the hunt for bin Laden. Bin Laden is just hiding out, while Zarquiwi is involved with current terrorist operations, so he has to be accessible and in touch with his subordinates. As a result, he'll get exposed. I like the idea that this special unit is going after as many of the leaders as they can find; and wherever they are. Let those guys start worrying every time they walk out a door or drive down a road.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
It should have started the day they decapitated Nick Berg. Although his dad wants to take down the President, I want to take down the murdering swine.
Spelling Police, Internal Affairs Division :-)
MM
"Muslims obviously don't believe in the Trinity."
...And neither do most Jews and many Christians.
ROFLMAO
You win.
That was my exact thought too.
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