lucky wilbury
09-25-2004, 08:34 PM
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/29191.htm
ELITE NEW SQUAD HUNTING EVIL ZARQAWI
By NILES LATHEM
September 25, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has created a special commando task force to destroy the vicious terror network controlled by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — and twice has come very close to killing him, Pentagon officials said yesterday.
Military officials confirmed a report on Fox News Channel that a special unit of CIA operatives and Special Forces Commandos known as Task Force 626 has been assigned to hunting down and attacking Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group.
The new force is smaller than Task Force 121, the team that hunted down Saddam Hussein and is now in Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden.
The secret Zarqawi task force has operatives and paid informants penetrating the ultra-violent town of Fallujah and a Sunni-dominated Baghdad neighborhood known as "Little Fallujah."
Sources told The Post that twice, once last week in the village of Zoba near Fallujah, and once last summer in Fallujah, the U.S. narrowly missed killing the elusive Zarqawi.
Tawhid and Jihad's spiritual leader, Sheik Abu Anas al-Sami, was killed in a U.S. airstrike west of Baghdad last weekend.
ELITE NEW SQUAD HUNTING EVIL ZARQAWI
By NILES LATHEM
September 25, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has created a special commando task force to destroy the vicious terror network controlled by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — and twice has come very close to killing him, Pentagon officials said yesterday.
Military officials confirmed a report on Fox News Channel that a special unit of CIA operatives and Special Forces Commandos known as Task Force 626 has been assigned to hunting down and attacking Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group.
The new force is smaller than Task Force 121, the team that hunted down Saddam Hussein and is now in Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden.
The secret Zarqawi task force has operatives and paid informants penetrating the ultra-violent town of Fallujah and a Sunni-dominated Baghdad neighborhood known as "Little Fallujah."
Sources told The Post that twice, once last week in the village of Zoba near Fallujah, and once last summer in Fallujah, the U.S. narrowly missed killing the elusive Zarqawi.
Tawhid and Jihad's spiritual leader, Sheik Abu Anas al-Sami, was killed in a U.S. airstrike west of Baghdad last weekend.