Task Force 20
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Task Force 20 is a temporary, top secret Task Force assigned to Iraq, and is now attached to Task Force 121 (which was created after TF20.)
This task force is comprised of Army Green Berets, Delta Force operators, Air Force Pararescue and commandos from the US Navy's elite DEVGRU. It is rumored that operators from the Australian and UK's world famous Counter-terrorism unit, the Special Air Service (SAS) and Poland's Elite CT unit, GROM also are members of TF 20.
The force is made of a 40 man assault team backed by a private aviation unit and backed by an intelligence unit. The unit is commanded by a U.S. Air Force Brigadier General.
Task Force 20's primary goal is to capture or kill "High Value Targets" (HVT's), such as Iraqi Mujahideen leaders and former Ba'ath party regime members and leaders. Task Force 20 operators were directly involved in the 14 hour firefight between them, 101st Airborne soldiers, and Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay Hussein. The two sons were killed in the shootout after TOW missiles launched from 101st Airborne Humvees killed them. The apprehension of the most wanted man in Iraq, Saddam Hussein in Operation Red Dawn directly involved Task Force 121 operators and members of the Army 4th Infantry Division.
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