Inside The FBI’s Secret Relationship With The Military’s Special Operations -- Washington Post
When U.S. Special Operations forces raided several houses in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in March 2006, two Army Rangers were killed when gunfire erupted on the ground floor of one home. A third member of the team was knocked unconscious and shredded by ball bearings when a teenage insurgent detonated a suicide vest.
In a review of the nighttime strike for a relative of one of the dead Rangers, military officials sketched out the sequence of events using small dots to chart the soldiers’ movements. Who, the relative asked, was this man — the one represented by a blue dot and nearly killed by the suicide bomber?
After some hesitation, the military briefers answered with three letters: FBI.
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Update #1: The FBI Has Been Secretly Fighting Alongside The US Military In Iraq And Afghanistan -- Business Insider
Update #2: FBI Agents Were Deployed in Hundreds of JSOC Raids Conducted in Iraq & Afghanistan -- Dissenter/Firedoglake
My Comment: It is amazing that no FBI agent was killed while participating in any of these dangerous operations. But what I found interesting about this story is the debate within U.S. Special Operations on permitting these agents to be embedded with their teams and to participate in firefights .... it appears that many of them did not want them to be there.
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