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| Iraq |
| SAS joins US forces hunting for dictator |
| 2003-04-11 |
| SAS and MI6 teams were last night helping their US counterparts in the search for Saddam Hussein as US troops in Baghdad turned their attention from defeating his army to finding the leaders of his regime. Now he's toast. Spy satellites, photo-reconnaissance aircraft, and Predator and Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles are scouring the area between Baghdad and Tikrit, the dictator's home town. Intercept operators are also scanning the airwaves for any sign of the encrypted communications equipment used by his lieutenants to communicate with other members of the Ba'ath party leadership. Those hunting for Saddam include a secret Pentagon unit known only as Gray Fox, which carries out covert intelligence operations and specialises in tracking down individuals. It has been used in the past in Lebanon against Hizbollah and provided the information that led to the arrest of Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drugs baron. Gray Fox has all the latest surveillance equipment, including communications monitoring equipment and low-flying signals intercept aircraft. Go get 'em. |
| Posted by:Anonymous |
| #5 Dakotah, I know about Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. The person I remember reading about (confirmed by my wife, who had Georgia History in school) was a colonial that took to the Georgia back country when Savannah was captured, and harassed the English throughout the Revolutionary War. Apparently he was an older man, with gray hair, thus the "Gray Fox". Army uses the name for people sent into an area for clandestine surveillance and monitoring. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-04-11 16:46:56 |
| #4 Old Patriot, sure you're not thinking of Francis Marion the "Swamp Fox"? Active in South Carolina if memory serves. |
| Posted by: Dakotah 2003-04-11 11:24:17 |
| #3 Dar, Goes all the way back to the Revolutionary War. There was an American general in the south known as "the Gray Fox". Can't find an immediate link to his name, and my memory isn't good enough any more to dredge it up. GRAY FOX was active in Vietnam, I know. The Army doesn't advertise it, and it's even more secret in many ways than Delta Force, but the two people I know who were members for a time were unbelievable. Soldier's soldiers, and significantly above average in intelligence, stamina, and training. My hat's off to them. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-04-11 10:41:38 |
| #2 Run, my foxes, run. Get a little of our own back. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-11 08:41:52 |
| #1 "Gray Fox"? There's got to be a good story behind that name. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-04-11 08:09:42 |