The Forces involved in the operation consisted of approximately 600 soldiers including cavalry, artillery, aviation, engineer, and special operations forces. The site names "Wolverine 1" and "Wolverine 2" are also a reference to the American insurgent group in the movie The Wolverines. The operation was named after the 1984 film of the same name starring Patrick Swayze. C squadron Delta Force, ISA operators under Task Force 121, and the First Brigade Combat Team of the 4th ID conducted the operation. Operation Red Dawn was launched after gaining actionable intelligence identifying two likely locations of Saddam's whereabouts code-named Wolverine 1 and Wolverine 2, near the town of ad-Dawr. This intelligence and other intelligence from detained former members of the Ba'ath Party, supported by signals intelligence from the ISA, finally pinpointed Hussein at a remote farm compound south of Tikrit. Early the next morning he revealed where Saddam may be found. On 12 December 2003, a raid on a house in Baghdad that was being used as an insurgent headquarters captured Omar. Over the next two weeks, nearly 40 members of his family were interrogated to ascertain his location. On 1 December 2003, a former driver divulged the name Muhammed Ibrahim Omar al-Musslit, Saddam's comrade, known to TF 121 as "the source" or "the fatman". Ä«etween July and December 2003, JSOC's Task Force 121 carried out twelve unsuccessful raids to find Saddam Hussein, together with 600 other operations against targets, including 300 interrogations. The American military labelled him "High Value Target Number One" (HVT1) and began one of the largest manhunts in history. Hussein disappeared from public view soon after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. A continued search between the two sites found Hussein hiding in a " spider hole" at 20:30 hrs local Iraqi time. They searched two sites, "Wolverine 1" and "Wolverine 2", outside the town of ad-Dawr, but did not find Hussein. The mission was executed by joint operations Task Force 121-an elite and covert joint special operations team, supported by the 1st Brigade Combat Team (led by Colonel James Hickey) of the 4th Infantry Division, commanded by Major General Raymond Odierno. Codenamed Operation Red Dawn, this military operation was named after the 1984 American film Red Dawn. Saddam Hussein, the deposed president of Iraq, was captured by the United States military forces in the town of Ad-Dawr, Iraq on 13 December 2003. Capture and arrest of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.Though the execution of Iraqi terror plots was not always successful, evidence shows that Saddams use of terrorist tactics and his support for terrorist groups remained strong up until the collapse of the regime. At times, these organizations would work together in pursuit of shared goals but still maintain their autonomy and independence because of innate caution and mutual distrust. This created both the appearance of and, in some ways, a de facto link between the organizations. Because Saddams security organizations and Osama bin Ladens terrorist network operated with similar aims at least in the short term, considerable overlap was inevitable when monitoring, contacting, financing, and training the same outside groups. While these documents do not reveal direct coordination and assistance between the Saddam regime and the al Qaeda network, they do indicate that Saddam was willing to use, albeit cautiously, operatives affiliated with al Qaeda as long as Saddam could have these terrorist operatives monitored closely. Abstract: Captured Iraqi documents have uncovered evidence that links the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global terrorism, including a variety of revolutionary, liberation, nationalist, and Islamic terrorist organizations.
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