The only reference I found was at
http://www.spitcircle.com/article.php?id=81
Excerpt:
First, I would like to bring your attention to a show on the Discovery Channel called Covert Action. On Wednesday January 14th, they aired an episode called Rat Hole. The show claims to be a re-enactment of true, covert episodes that at one point were labeled Top Secret. This episode details events in February of 2003 in which a US Navy Seal team is inserted into Libya to break up a meeting between a top Iraqi intelligence official and numerous terrorist operatives. Mission envelopes were handed out to the terrorists before the Seal team got the go-ahead to neutralize the target, which they did. Included in the plots were Seattle, American installations in Paris and assassinations of Iraqi exiles due to return to Iraq after Saddam had been disposed. I remind you that the show claims to based on real events and the producer is an ex CIA officer who has produced shows before which I know to be true and accurate. No information seems to be available on Operation Rat Hole anywhere. If you get a chance to catch a re-run I would recommend it.
I have tried googling various options from operation rat hole, covert action: rat hole and other such nuances, looks like unless Discovery plays the show again I would have to purchase the dvd.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1058282/posts
In late Feb2003, shortly before the Gulf War II, an Iraqi clerk walked into our embassy in Italy and wanted to defect. He handled codes for the Iraqi secret police (Mukbarat sp?). Of course, we wanted him to give us some intelligence info in exchange for asylum. The man said that he was hearing lots of traffic about a terrorist planning meeting in Libya and that he was supposed to go there as a clerk.
We tracked the man to Libya and he got the details of the upcoming meeting ... but wouldn't turn them over to us until he was out of the country. Our agents handling him decided to fake his death. They gave him a paralyzing drug then posed as paramedics to take him away. After getting across to Egypt, the man told our guys when and where the meeting would take place.
Our Navy closed on the Libyan coast and sent a SEAL team to listen in on the meeting. They put a camera in the meeting house and beamed the signal via satellite back to the CIA. We found that the high ranking Iraqi secret police official was setting up plans to bomb American embassies. After gathering the info, the SEAL team was ordered to take them out, which they did.
Afterwards, papers found in the house indicated that the Iraqis were also going to use a suicide bomber to kill a Muslim anti-Saddam cleric in England. We had MI6 warn the cleric. He wore a flak jacket on his way to the mosque. A suicide bomber approached and MI6 killed him.