Special Operations Focuses Inward

Baghdad, Iraq – July 2, 2007: U.S. Forces “stack up” with their weapons and infrared laser sights to demonstrate entry tactics used for counter terrorism operations. Coalition and Iraqi forces together make up the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Force.

United States Special Operations Forces are attracting attention for the wrong reasons after a spate of incidents overseas that involved the murder of Americans, allegedly carried out by SOF Forces.

A former Green Beret, who was working as a contractor for Lockheed Martin died on January 4, after being injured in Iraq on New Years Eve, from what authorities characterize as severe head trauma.  Two Marines and a Navy Corpsman are under investigation in his death.

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