well, we had tf 20 in our area in baghdad (they went to other places also). here is a little snippet i found about them:
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Scurrying down ropes from helicopters and scaling walls on ladders, U.S. commandos raided three houses in an upscale neighborhood Monday morning.
"Where's Saddam?" the soldiers yelled, according to residents who said they cowered in their bedrooms as the Americans blew out their front doors with explosives. "We know he's in here."
Their search for the deposed Iraqi leader turned up empty, but it had all the earmarks of the elite Special Operations Task Force 20.
For the first time, the U.S. military acknowledged Monday that the highly secretive task force is one of the units spearheading the hunt for Saddam Hussein.
The Pentagon has been reluctant to confirm Task Force 20's existence. But its presence surfaced recently in the raid that killed Saddam's two sons in northern Iraq and the storming of a sheik's house on July 27 in Baghdad that left up to five Iraqis dead, military sources said.
On Monday, a spokeswoman for the 4th Infantry Division announced that four key Hussein regime figures were detained in the past week by Task Force 20 near Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. Two of them were described as "very close associates" of Saddam, Maj. Josslyn Aberle said.
Task Force 20's trademark is lightning-fast assaults, and members have at their disposal anything the military can muster, experts said. In recent months, the unit has turned its attention from hunting for weapons of mass destruction to hunting down Saddam and his top loyalists.
A military spokesman in Baghdad would not confirm or deny Monday's raid in the Mansour neighborhood, a few blocks away from where Task Force 20 struck the sheik's house.
From residents' description of Monday morning's assault, it appeared certain that Task Force 20 was at work. Only hours after the raid, other U.S. soldiers spoke to family members and offered compensation for damaged property.
"They told us that we had been visited by the best army unit in the world that is out to find Saddam," said Yaser Mohammed Ghany, sweeping up shattered window glass and splinters from broken door frames.
The commandos told residents they were acting on a tip that Saddam was staying at one of the three houses.
"They were clearly not your usual soldiers," Ghany said.
Military experts say Task Force 20 is based at Baghdad International Airport and has perhaps 1,500 soldiers and its own logistical, communications and intelligence capabilities. The task force is a combination of Special Operations units, including the Army's Delta Force and Rangers and Navy SEALs, military experts said.
Task Force 20 was formed before the start of the Iraq war and infiltrated the western desert to locate Iraqi Scud missiles and key military units for destruction by U.S. aircraft and other forces, said Patrick Garrett, associate analyst at GlobalSecurity.org in Virginia.
After major combat operations ended, the unit unsuccessfully scoured Iraq for chemical and biological weapons, analysts said.
Now, sources said, Task Force 20 mobilizes in minutes on informants' tips and other intelligence about Saddam's possible whereabouts.
As they seal off the target area, a second unit then enters the house or building to search for the targets. Other task force members follow up and gather intelligence information at the site, analysts say.
now, the mansour neighbor was within my units area of responsiblity (we ran our patrols there) and know about this incident, but i won't deny or confirm if they (TF-20) were involved either.
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