{"id":3803,"date":"2008-09-01T00:17:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2008-09-01T00:17:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T07:17:09","slug":"task-force-black-kills-hundreds-of-al-qaeda-terrorists-in-black-ops-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/task-force-black-kills-hundreds-of-al-qaeda-terrorists-in-black-ops-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Task Force Black Kills Hundreds of Al Qaeda Terrorists In Black Ops Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nMore than 3,500 insurgents have been “taken off the streets of Baghdad” by the elite British force in a series of audacious “Black Ops” over the past two years.<\/p>\n
It is understood that while the majority of the terrorists were captured, several hundred, who were mainly members of the organization known as “al-Qa’eda in Iraq” have been killed by the SAS.<\/p>\n
The SAS is part of a highly secretive unit called “Task Force Black” which also includes Delta Force, the US equivalent of the SAS.<\/p>\n
The prime targets have been those intent on joining the wave of suicide car bombers that claimed around 3,000 lives a month in Baghdad at the height of the terrorist campaign in 2006.<\/p>\n
Using intelligence gleaned from spies and informers, Task Force Black has nearly broken the back of the terrorist network and reduced bombings in Baghdad from about 150 a month to just two.<\/p>\n
But the success of the covert mission came at a price \u2013 six members of the SAS were killed and more than 30 were injured. Delta Force has suffered in the region of 20 per cent casualties.<\/p>\n
A senior British officer told The Sunday Telegraph: “We took over 3,500 terrorists off the streets of Baghdad in around 18 months.<\/p>\n
“You could say it was a very successful period. But the butcher’s bill was high. The attrition rate is equivalent to that experienced by the SAS during the Malayan insurgency 50 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe relationship between the SAS and Delta Force is very close,\u201d he added. \u201cIf anything, the attrition rate in Delta Force is higher. Two years ago the SAS made a donation to Delta Force\u2019s ‘widows and orphans\u2019 fund of \u00a310,000.\u201d<\/p>\n