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UK Launches Mission to Find ISIS Executioner

By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Sat Nov 08, 2014 at 07:29:02 PM EST
Tags: ISIS, Iraq and Syria (all tags)
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The Daily Mail reports Britain's elite members of the Special Air Services (SAS) have been sent to the Middle East to locate the black-clad ISIS executioner in the hostage killing videos of British citizens David Haines and Alan Henning (who also appeared in execution videos of Americans John Foley and Steven Sotloff, and most recently threatened Peter Kassig.) It is reportedly the SAS' largest mission since 9/11.

In August, the British press reported the formation of a joint task force of the SAS and US Navy Seals to take out ISIS leadership.

Elite British and US special forces troops are forming a hunter killer unit called Task Force Black – its orders: “Smash the Islamic State.”

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The undercover warriors will aim to “cut the head off the snake” by hitting the command structure of the Islamist terror group responsible for a trail of atrocities across Iraq and Syria, reports the Sunday People.

...British special forces will work with America’s Delta Force and Seal Team 6. The move sees a rebirth of top secret Task Force Black, which helped defeat al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq.

The article goes on to quote an unnamed source:

“We need to go into Syria and Iraq and kill as many IS members as we can. You can’t ­negotiate with these people.

Today, the (usually inaccurate)pro-Iraqi news service reported the Navy Seals who killed Osama bin Laden arrived in Baghdad last week as part of a covert mission to take out ISIS leadership. The pro-Iraqi news service is so unreliable I initially dismissed the story entirely.

But after reading the Daily Mail article, which contains the same time frame for the deployment of UK and US forces and some similar details as the reported Baghdad operation, and then recounts today's news about a U.S. strike aimed at ISI