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Members of 6–26 had fanned out in areas ranging from Baghdad, Mosul and to Fallujah and other areas in the contested Al Anbar province in search of al-Zarqawi, and have been very successful in eliminating many leaders of his group, and killing al-Zarqawi on 8 June 2006.[1]
The unit operated an interrogation cell at Camp Nama, one of Saddam Hussein's former military bases near Baghdad. There, American soldiers made one of the former Iraqi government's interrogation facilities into one of their own, calling it "The Black Room."[1] In 2004 it was reported that the force was running a secret prison in Baghdad and abusing prisoners; the unit was implicated in two prisoner deaths.[1] The unit has been under investigation since at least 2003, but prosecution has been elusive, as members of the unit used false identities and claimed to have lost 70 percent of their records due to a computer malfunction. The other primary name for the Task Force has been OCF, or Other Coalition Forces.[1] In both cases the unit has command infrastructure in both theaters of war at an MSS (Mission Staging Site) in Baghdad Iraq and at OCF compound at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
^ abcdefghSchmitt, Eric; Carolyn Marshall (19 March 2006). "Task Force 6–26: In Secret Unit's 'Black Room,' a Grim Portrait of U.S. Abuse". The New York Times.
Gellman, Barton; R. Jeffrey Smith (8 December 2004). "Report to Defense Alleged Abuse By Prison Interrogation Teams". The Washington Post. pp. A1.
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