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Overview
Task Force Black is a Special Forces unit that specializes in hostage rescue and tracking Iraq war criminals. The Task Force is comprised mainly of British, American and Australian Special Forces. The Task Force is one of four sub groups of a larger Task Force known as Task Force 145, the other three sub groups are: Task Force West, Task Force Central and Task Force North. These forces were formed in 2003 when the Pentagon needed the Special Forces to hunt down Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein and his sons in Iraq. Reportedly, TF Black has removed or killed 3,500 insurgents from the streets of Baghdad. With the removal of these insurgents, the number of bombings has been reduced from 150 per month to about 2 per month. The soldiers are rotated out of the unit about every six months and are replaced with new fresh troops. This is done to prevent soldiers from becoming over worked or over stressed. It is now believed that the task force has been pulled out of Iraq and has been deployed in Afghanistan and is continuing their mission of hostage rescue and special operations.

The Task Force
The task force has had successes as well as setbacks. In October 2004, All SAS forces including Task force black were banned from handing over suspects to the US forces if the suspects were going to be taken to a US interrogation center due to the fact of the bad reputation those centers were getting. Another setback for the task force was during the battle of Fallujah when the SAS was banned from going into the city along side its American counterpart because of the pressure that the government was feeling from the unpopularity of the war. The task force normally gathers their itelligence from the Iraqis and using assests that they have in the local neighborhoods. This lets the task focre get information in a real time and quick manor.

Operations
A majority of the task force's operations are not known because of how they operate in secret but some of their missions have been revealed to us. Their operations can range from scouting out a target, to hostage rescue and even assault operations to take down insurgents. "In July 2003, an SAS team performed a close target reconnaissance of a residence in Mosul, thought to contain Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's sons. British commanders pushed for the SAS to raid the house but are denied. A combined force of US Delta Force and the 101st Airborne eventually attacked the building and killed Uday and Qusay". In July 2005, a task force sniper team was assigned to kill insurgents heading into a city to plant bombs; the team was able to eliminate the bomb team before they reached their city. Not all of task forces blacks operations involve bloodshed. In March 2006 the task force had a mission to find an secure a British activist named Norman Kember, and 2 Canadians who were being held in Bagdad. The task force was able to recover all three of the men without having to fire a shot. .