Spotlight on war in the shadows (Gray Fox & The Activity)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://ww1.theherald.co.uk/news/4003.html


NEWS of the death of a corporal from the UK's Special Boat Service north of Mosul was a rare snapshot of the savage shadow war which has been raging unabated and unreported inside Iraq for the past seven months.

The Ministry of Defence announcement on Tuesday brings the British death toll since the war started to 52.

Hundreds of British, US, and Australian special forces, plus the CIA's "special affairs division" of hi-tech hitmen have been operating in small teams throughout the country, hunting the last fugitives from the ousted regime and the new leaders of the growing insurrection.

The biggest prize of all, Saddam Hussein, is the intended prey of Task Force 20, a composite group composed of US Delta troopers, members of Devgru – the unit formerly known as US Navy Seals – and picked squads from Britain's SAS and SBS.

The force operates in small surveillance teams trained to lie up for days at a time in "hides" near suspected enemy sanctuaries, watching for the movement of "known players" and logging those who come and go in the villages dotted throughout the Sunni Triangle area
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Interesting piece abt. clandestine operations.

[midwest_lurker]

1. wow ... interesting

we'll see more of this kind of as time goes on ...

[bemildred]

2. It is nice of them to tell us all about this "secret" activity.

I do hope this doesn't "impact security".

But seriously, I would be a lot more interested in this sort of
PR drool if they were to provide some sort of assessment of
how the "savage shadow war" is coming. On the evidence one has
to say not so good, although I have not doubt these highly
trained and dedicated fellows do give a good account of themselves.