Delta Force Photo - Iraq Task Force

A Delta Force soldier (right) and a British Special Air Service soldier (left) pictured in Iraq, 2008.

Delta Force are part of a Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF), with and ever changing code names (TF-88, Task Force Black being among the most recent, publicly acknowledged, monikers).

This Task Force includes/has included Tier One Special Operations forces from the U.S. (Delta, DEVGRU), the U.

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(SAS, SBS) and Australia (SASR) along with supporting Tier 2 units (US Army Rangers, UK SFSG) and Special Ops aviation and intelligence elements (U.S. 160th SOAR, ISA, U.

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SRR, MI6).

The Task Force, based in Baghdad, has been systematically targeting key elements of the insurgency and Al Qaeda In Iraq (AQI) such as the bomb technicians, insurgent leaders.