Summer 2006. The elite fighting outfit Task Force Black were on the trail of

Iraq's deadliest terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Zarqawi was the number one priority for the military. A man driven to unleash

unspeakable carnage on the people of Iraq and coalition military forces.

Zarqawi personified the dark, sadistic and medieval vision of the future of

the headings, suicide bombings and indiscriminate killings. But with the help of

interrogators and military leadership, Task Force Black finally brings

Al-Zarqawi down.

The death of Zarqawi as we suspected of what it was a devastating blow to the

organization.

Welcome to Covert, a show about the shadowy world of international espionage

and top secret military operations. I'm Jamie Renel, I'm going to take you

inside history's greatest special operations missions to learn about the

brave soldiers and operatives who risked their lives to terminate the world's

most wanted, eliminate terrorist threats and protect countless innocent lives.

This is the true story of Task Force Black and the killing of one of Iraq's most

vicious terrorist leaders, Abu Musab, Al-Zarqawi. This is the assault on Al-Qaeda,

part two.

The farmhouse raid that led to the capture of five high-ranking Al-Qaeda

officers was born out of months of intelligence. Stemming from an operation

brought about by a general who arrived in Iraq almost three years prior. Stanley

McChrystal took a radical new approach for hunting down Al-Zarqawi and destroying

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