You can read how Delta Force operatives secretly killed Iranian agents in Iraq in an excerpt of Sean Naylor's book Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command that appears in the New York Post.
By early 2007, some US intelligence estimates held that as many as 150 Iranian operatives were in Iraq. Many were member of the Quds Force, the covert arm of Iran’s Shi’ite theocracy. Their mission was to coordinate the violent campaign being waged against US forces by Iraq’s Shi’ite militias.
“It was 100 percent, ‘Are you willing to kill Americans and are you willing to coordinate attacks?’ ” said an officer who studied the Quds Force’s approach closely. “ ‘If the answer is “yes,” here’s arms, here’s money.’ ”
The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) set up a new task force, named Task Force 17.
Its mandate was simple: go after “anything that Iran is doing to aid in the destabilization of Iraq,” said a Task Force 17 officer.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:http://nypost.com/2015/10/04/how-the-us-conducted-secret-assassinations-using-ieds/
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