# Task Force 6-26 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Task_Force_6-26 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Task_Force_6-26.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_6-26 > Source revision: 1326279972 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) United States joint military/government agency This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "Task Force 6-26" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2013) **Task Force 6–26** was a United States Joint military/Government Agency, originally set-up to find "[High-value targets](/source/High-value_target)" (HVTs) in Iraq in the aftermath of [Operation Iraqi Freedom](/source/Operation_Iraqi_Freedom).[1] This [Special Operations](/source/United_States_Special_Operations_Forces) unit is very similar to [JSOC](/source/Joint_Special_Operations_Command) [Task Force 121](/source/Task_Force_121) which was created to capture [Saddam Hussein](/source/Saddam_Hussein) and high-ranking [Al-Qaeda](/source/Al-Qaeda) members. The various name changes seen by the group are to ensure Operational Security, although their makeup and goals largely remain the same. The main objective of Task Force 6–26 was the capture or liquidation of terror leader [Abu Musab al-Zarqawi](/source/Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi), who led [Al-Qaeda in Iraq](/source/Al-Qaeda_in_Iraq).[1] The unit is made up of U.S. Special Operations Forces members including [Delta Force](/source/Delta_Force), [DEVGRU](/source/United_States_Naval_Special_Warfare_Development_Group), [24th Special Tactics Squadron](/source/24th_Special_Tactics_Squadron) and the [75th Ranger Regiment](/source/75th_Ranger_Regiment_(United_States)) along with the [CIA](/source/Central_Intelligence_Agency)'s [Special Activities Center](/source/Special_Activities_Division).[1] Other military and [DIA](/source/Defense_Intelligence_Agency) personnel are believed to have been involved as 'limited' members of the unit, along with [FBI](/source/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation) agents.[1] Members of 6–26 had fanned out in areas ranging from [Baghdad](/source/Baghdad), [Mosul](/source/Mosul) and to [Fallujah](/source/Fallujah) and other areas in the contested [Al Anbar](/source/Al_Anbar_Governorate) province in search of al-Zarqawi, and have been very successful in eliminating many leaders of his group, and killing al-Zarqawi on 7 June 2006.[1] The unit operated an [interrogation](/source/Interrogation) cell at [Camp Nama](/source/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](/source/Camp_Nama#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 had command infrastructure in both theaters of war at an MSS (Mission Staging Site) in Baghdad, Iraq and at OCF compound at [Bagram Air Base](/source/Bagram_Air_Base), Afghanistan. ## See also - [Task Force 121](/source/Task_Force_121) - [Task Force 145](/source/Task_Force_145) - [Task Force ODIN](/source/Task_Force_ODIN) - [U.S. list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis](/source/U.S._list_of_most-wanted_Iraqis) - [Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)](/source/Iraqi_insurgency_(2003%E2%80%932011)) - [Assassination and targeted killing by the CIA](/source/Human_rights_violations_by_the_CIA#Assassination_and_targeted_killing) ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NYT_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NYT_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-NYT_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-NYT_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-NYT_1-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-NYT_1-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-NYT_1-6) [***h***](#cite_ref-NYT_1-7) Schmitt, Eric; Carolyn Marshall (19 March 2006). ["Task Force 6–26: In Secret Unit's 'Black Room,' a Grim Portrait of U.S. Abuse"](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/international/middleeast/19abuse.html). *The New York Times*. - Gellman, Barton; R. Jeffrey Smith (8 December 2004). ["Report to Defense Alleged Abuse By Prison Interrogation Teams"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45373-2004Dec7.html). *The Washington Post*. pp. A1. This United States military article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:US-mil-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3AUS-mil-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:US-mil-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Task Force 6-26](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_6-26) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_6-26?action=history)). 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