The Kill That Broke Zarqawi: How Delta and the SAS Finally Got Him

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi spent years slaughtering civilians, beheading hostages, and stoking sectarian war in Iraq while slipping through every net. In June 2006 a small Delta Force surveillance team, backed by intelligence from relentless SAS and JSOC raids, fixed him in a palm-grove safe house outside Baqubah. Two F-16s finished the job, and the “find, fix, finish” machine that had already gutted AQI’s leadership claimed its biggest scalp.