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Friendly Forces

One of the two elite counterterrorist forces in the US arsenal, Delta Force is feared worldwide for its phenomenally lethal skills - the product of constant, intense training, including hours of shooting practice each day. Formed in 1977 by US Army Colonel Charles "Chargin Charlie"; Beckwith, the force is modeled after the British SAS. They are experts in all-weather combat and are noted for "double-tapping" firing two shots in rapid succession at their targets to take them down quickly and effectively. Delta is so secret that the Army still denies its existence. The only force in the military on a war footing year round, the operators of Delta, or "D boys" train in the arctic, the desert, and practice raiding mock-ups of office buildings and even borrowed aircraft. In order to graduate, each operator must go through a legendarily intense selection and training process which culminates with a live fire drill in a darkened room with their own teammates playing the role of hostages.

Headquartered in a former prison complex in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Delta has fought in Grenada, Honduras, Panama, both Iraq wars, and many other places you will never hear about. After 9/11, Delta Force began training with Nuclear Emergency Support Teams (NEST teams) from the Department of Energy to do coordinated searches of population centers in case a terrorist nuclear bomb was discovered on US soil. And they are rumored to have conducted drills with Israeli counter terror units to prepare for an ugly, bloody Easter-egg-style hunt for nuclear weapons in Pakistan if the regime there collapses. Back to top

Enemy Forces

Two years ago, correspondence penned by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was intercepted by authorities. Long and chilling, the letter was a plea to al Qaeda for assistance in the uprising against Coalition forces in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi's plan of action included murderous attacks and the kidnapping of Americans, and in the months to come, al-Zarqawi's callous proficiency in fulfilling his pledge to violence landed him a top spot on Iraq's Most Wanted list. Al-Zarqawi was every bit as evil as Osama bin Laden, maybe even more so, and the US military wanted him dead.

Back in the fall of 2001, Al-Zarqawi was in Afghanistan when US forces began the bombing campaign against Taliban forces. Close to the action, one of al-Zarqawi's legs was injured to such an extent it reported to be partially amputated. He took refuge in neighboring Iran, still on the lam from his homeland, Jordan, where al-Zarqawi he had been convicted on numerous counts relating to terrorist plots. The Jordanian courts had issued a death sentence in his absence.

Al-Zarqawi fled from Iran into Iraq, and in 2002, he settled in Baghdad along with two dozen fighters from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad-a terrorist organization that merged with al Qaeda. They set up a weapons lab in northern Iraq and produced deadly ricin to be used in terrorist attacks inside Europe. The plan emerged four months after the lab was complete. Not far from the chemical weapons labs, al-Zarqawi also ran Ansar al-Islam terror training camps.

Al-Zarqawi's 2004 pledge of allegiance to Osama bin Laden earned him a $25 million bounty by the United States, equal to the price tag on bin Laden's head. But the reward failed to produce al-Zarqawi, and in his 3 years in Iraq, he will have a hand in the deaths of more than 700 people there. His ability to mastermind some of the most ruthless violence the world over includes the bombings of the Shiite Mosque in Najaf, the Jordanian Embassy, and UN headquarters in Baghdad. It was al-Zarqawi who sent assassins to gun down US aide worker Laurence Foley at his home in Jordan, and Zarqawi who plotted the vicious suicide attack on the port of Basra. Associated with countless terrorist groups and brutal attacks so widespread, al Zarqawi's killing spree spanned four continents.

Some of the most recent - and appalling - events in history include al-Zarqawi's influence: The Madrid train bombings last year that killed 191 people, a triple suicide bombing against three Amman hotels, which killed 60 innocent people. The group that decapitated South Korean Kim Sun-il displayed a banner behind them which read Jama'at al-Tawhid and Jihad, the name of al-Zarqawi's militants in Iraq.

But al-Zarqawi sometimes had an intimate hand in the murders he planned, too. His supporters dubbed him "the slaughtering sheik" after he personally beheaded Americans Nicholas Berg and Eugene Armstrong.

Most recently, al-Zarqawi and his followers have been implicated in numerous acts of simple murder and destruction, apparently intended to fuel sectarian violence and anarchy in Iraq. This included the bombing of the golden mosque in Samarra, a central Shiite holy site. Last week police northeast of Baghdad found a fruit crate along the highway containing eight severed heads. In one of Zarqawi's final acts of terrorism, his followers set up a vehicle checkpoint north of Baghdad, where they stopped the incoming cars and busses and executed the passengers -- including kids en route to completing their final exams, and feeble, elderly men.
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