Task Force Black: The S.A.S. in Iraq | Part 1

in the evening of the 31st of October 2003 a dozen or so men of a squadron the 22nd SAS regimen moved to the Iraqi town of remedy in search of a Sudanese man facilitating the arrival of foreign fighters into Iraq equipped night-vision goggles and weather weapons loaded two teams converged on the target buildings before breaching the entrances on the right team two entered their building and secured it against minimal opposition on the left however team one ran into a war venom II fire which became too heavy and forced them back with this latest development a third SAS team was brought forward which cleared a nearby building and began providing fire support to team one meanwhile as team one regrouped it was realized that two men were stood in the courtyard and an effort was made to locate them one of the soldiers was corporal Ian plank who has sadly killed in action during the initial assault the other missing soldier had also been wounded but managed to call himself to cover two men from team one immediately volunteered to go in and extract him and under enemy fire the two were able to lift the soldier to his feet and make that right suit with everyone accounted for a new plan was undertaken which saw a fourth SAS team clearing a neighboring building was a supporting us Bradley armored fighting vehicle moved forward and leveled the compound although the Sudanese man had not been captured alive it was later asserted that he was most certainly killed in the raid the success of operation a balloon as the raid was codenamed was a major turning point for future SAS operations of in Iraq not only did it lead to them receiving a substantial amount of equipment namely a half or Chinooks from number seven squadron raf but it also led to the formation of a new unit within the country task force black formed in early 2004 task force black was initially composed of an SS squadron for deployed to Baghdad and it's supporting RAF Chinooks at the time of its forming B squadron was based in the Iraqi capital and OB the squadron hood lee task force black on to its first major mission in February of 2004 codenamed Operation Aston the objective of the mission was to disrupt a network that was overseeing the arrival of Iranian fighters into Iraq under the cover of darkness several teams from B squadron deployed to the target located in the south of Baghdad with teams coming in from the front of Murray the SAS begun the process of room clearance during which a total of two enemy were killed and several more were captured the success of estin set the tone for many of taskforce blacks missions for the remainder of 2004 and was a key influence and then receiving new equipment added to its inventory were for puma helicopters from them are free free and number two free o squadrons in addition to a handful c-130 hercules transport aircraft from number four seven squadron in the afternoon on the 34 January 2005 one of the c-130 hercules transport aircraft took off on the Iraqi capital for the small town of battered approximately 50 miles to the north 30 minutes into the flight the crew sent our distress call followed by the aircraft disappearing from the radar coalition aircraft was soon scrambled to search for the plane and soon a couple of us helicopters discovered the site of its crash all 10 crew members were killed in the incident which was quickly claimed by an insurgent group operating in the vicinity it wasn't long before news of the crash reached the men a task force black who set out to find those just one spore after a large intelligence operation which lasted most of the year the attackers were located was culminated in series of raised by task force black was led to their death or capture simultaneously in concert with this insurgents effort information was provided to Task Force black regarding the location of a deal ibrahim al masud ani who had previously served within Saddam Hussein's government on the night of the 11th of April 2005 several teams from G squadron were deployed to the house for deal was in launching a coordinated assault the SS encountered no resistance and captured their target alive at this point in its history the task force had been reinforced with further support assets among the new arrivals were elements the 18th Cygnus regimen and the special reconnaissance regiment who were to assist the force and intelligence matters additionally a detachment of operators from the special boat service were provided to the force and it was this group her to have a leading role in the forces next major mission operation malboro theme of operation mara was to stop a suspected terror attack in Baghdad they're free individuals who had to be neutralized as part the mission in addition to the seizure of the safehouse which was located in the sea east southern suburbs on the morning of the 23rd of July 2005 and team made up with a special boat service operators began to approach the target building provide an air cover to the assault or a couple of puma helicopters which had a total of four SAS snipers on board advancing forward the SPS had a shock encounter when a man outside the building detonated his suicide vest fortunately he had done so too early to cause any casualties of in the assault team at the same time one of the puma helicopters had observed a second man leaving the target swinging round one of the onboard snipers took a shot which neutralized the insurgent it was discovered afterwards he was likewise armed with a suicide vest the assault team now breached into the building itself in search of the third and final suspect of the operation upon entering the bottom floor a man appeared and was immediately cut down by the forward trooper pressing on the team cleared each room until they were satisfied that they had neutralized all free suspects in the wake of the successor malbro Task Force black was soon plussed into a crisis when two of its own were captured in the Iraqi city of Basra in the southeast of the country on the morning of the 19th of September 2005 two undercover SS troopers were arrested by the Basra city please one here in the news Task Force black dispatched a group of 50 men to Basra to execute a rescue operation the speed and energy with which the task force's headquarters have responded with stood in stark contrast to that of the officials overseen the purged appointment in Iraq who opted for peaceful negotiations rather than a military operation they then aroused the problem when the to SAS prisoners were transferred from the Basra prison to a house in the sea's outskirts fairing the two men were going to be executed the order was given for a rescue mission at 9:00 p.m. on the 19th of September at the Basra prison over ten challenger 2 tanks and warrior infantry fighting vehicles smashed their way for the complexes outer wall and outlying buildings on the ground a team from Task Force black moved in and cleared the prison several miles away teams of SS troopers surrounded and assaulted the house against no opposition and in the process freed their colleagues the whole episode received widespread media attention and for the first time since its forming in 2004 the name Task Force black was published to the world this leak of information sought Task Force black undergo a series of reforms which included a name changed task force Knight additionally the Chinook's from number 7 squadron and the detachment from the special boat service departed the force in their place accompany a paratroopers from the first Battalion the parachute regiment and several Lynx helicopters from number six five seven squadron were embedded into Task Force night the paratroopers were themselves fallen into a new sub Union within Task Force night which was appropriately named Task Force marooned does two months after the events in basra task force night was once again pulled into another rescue operation this time on their doorstep in Baghdad British civilian Norman Kimba was part of a four-man group that had traveled to Iraq to oppose the coalition on the 26 for November 2005 Kemba alongside two Canadians and one American was kidnapped in the Iraqi capital and held hostage by a local militant group the kidnapping became task force tonight's top priority which led to them becoming operationally closer with their American counterparts the strength leaner ties between the American and British special forces eventually saw task force tonight becoming an integrated part of the US Joint Special Operations Command in January 2006 the British force was subordinate to task force 145 which was a special forces unit made up of America's elite troops at the time of the British integration task force 145 were structured as follows task force 9 which was sent in on the 22nd SAS regimen task force red which was centered on the 75th Ranger Regiment task force blue which was centered on Navy SEAL Team six Task Force green which was centered on Delta Force and finally Task Force Orange which was the intelligence arm a task force 145 with this integration came closer cooperation with the US Special Forces which went into fruition in the search for norman Kember and his group for our early to six many raids were conducted by task force 145 acting on intelligence leads but canvas still remain missing that was until early March when the body of Tom Fox the American was found which increased the urgency to find the remaining three eventually a raid carried out by task force night led to the capture of a person linked to the kidnappers and after a period of interrogation he revealed the location of Kimba and the two Canadians consequently on the morning of the 23rd March 2006 a team from task force tonight the ploy to the target building and upon encountering no resistance inside rescued the hostages the successful rescue of Norman Kember and his two Canadian colleagues marked the beginning of an intense year for task force night as it was about to take the fight directly to al-qaeda you

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Length: 11min 55sec (715 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 18 2019