There must be real personal devastation at such a realization no matter how much propaganda and brainwashing the wife may have gone through.
In their only publicly known operation they reportedly conducted several raids without requiring approval from nearby conventional command structures and only requiring it from USSOCOM. Task Force 88, the special operations hunter-killer teams tasked with dismantling al Qaeda in Iraq’s senior leaders and wider network, has captured a suicide bomb cell leader and recruiter north of Baghdad. Significantly, this first ever visit to Gwadar, a gateway to the Indian Ocean, came within days when American people voted Donald Trump to become their next president.
The task force is known to operate very autonomously. [51] Another setback for the task force was during the Second Battle of Fallujah when the SAS was banned from going into the city alongside its American counterpart because of the pressure that the government was feeling from the unpopularity of the war. [16] In October 2004, all SAS personnel in Iraq including Task Force Black were banned from handing over suspects to the US forces if the suspects were going to be taken to a US interrogation center due to the fact of the bad reputation those centers were getting. During operations in Al-Anbar province, TF88 operatives entered the insurgent controlled city of Haditha, several times finding Zarqawi's hideouts. [37] Support elements include the 160 SOAR (Night Stalkers), the USAF 24 STS, and British paratroopers from the SFSG. It is likely that TF West is based either at Camp Asad or Camp Taqaddum. Task Force Center is probably co-located with TF 145's headquarters element at Balad, but it could also be based at Camp Liberty, since it is responsible for the Baghdad region. By Bill RoggioOctober 27, 2008 (2008-10-27). TF Center is based around a direct-action squadron; the three Delta Force squadrons,SEAL Team 6 and squadrons from Australian SASR and 2nd Commando Regiment. [25], In July 2003, Task Force 5 (formerly Task Force 11) in Afghanistan and Task Force 20 were amalgamated to form Task Force 21, which was later renamed as Task Force 121—the command was set up in such a way that TF 121's Delta Force and other elements of JSOC could be switched between Afghanistan and Iraq as required. [15] Sergeant Jon Hollingsworth, killed in Iraq with the SAS, was decorated for his service in this unit. "U.S. Counterterrorism Operations during the Iraq War: A Case Study of Task Force 714. The action arm of the task force was made up of operators from 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group ('DEVGRU'), British Special Air Service, British Special Boat Service,75th Ranger Regiment,Australian 2nd Commando Regiment,Australian Special Air Service Regiment and Members of the CIA's elite Special Activities Division paramilitary unit were also believed to be an important part of the group.