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.