The US special offer with the CIA agent invasions Iraqis, training Kurdish militants attacking the Saddam Hussein army from inside to create unexpectedly.
The first half of 2002 decided to invade Iraq to overthrow the government of President Saddam Hussein with an allegation of the country possessing a mass destruction weapon.
The US coinition led its head to open the campaign to open the campaign from Southern Iraq and advanced to the capital Bagdad.
The Kurdish forces in Iraq have long confronted the Saddam Hussein government and are considered to be a good choice for cooperation.
American soldiers (left and right) and Kurd's Peshmergian militia (middle and rear) outside Al-Nazimiya village in Iraq in April 2003.
To convince, training and commanding Kurdish militants, the United States established the Viking Task Force, with the core is the green hat task force of the Army and the central intelligence agencies (CIA),
This force was later awarded with the US Delta task and the offset of the British Navy (SBS), but the number had never exceeded 400 people.
The Viking Task Force led about 50,000 Kurd's Peshmergian militants to bloom in the enemy, against 150,000 Iraqi troops of armored units, infantry and representatives of Republic of Thien War.
The campaign was maniated from the beginning of 2002, when the first CIA agents entered the region controlled by the Kurds in Iraq, informing the Kurdish leaders of the US government's special task.
By the summer of that year, a group of CIA military service, led by Sam Faddis, to Iraq and worked with Kurds to persuade them to cooperate with the United States.
On March 19, 2003, when the United States launched a campaign to attack Iraq, a green hat special task force from the 10th Task Force to the Institute for CIA agents.
The task of the Viking Task Force is connected to Kurdish people, organizing spy operations and strategic destructive activities, and prepares the environment for the next campaigns of special tasks and forces.
Viking Task Force also another task is to identify and evaluate the danger of Ansar Al-Islam, a Sunni Islamic Extreme Group in the relevant area, but is not organized al-Qaeda.
Members Ansar Al-Islam hide in northern Iraq, near the border with Iran, and caused a potential danger on the ribs of the US force and Kurdish people.
Kurd's living area.
The US command and intelligence developed a relationship with Kurds and began training them.
Turkey's decision makes the route of the task force lasting from 40 km to 1,600 km, forcing them to fly at a low height for 3.5 hours from Romania or originating from the south of Iraq, where the country arranged
One day before the US launched a campaign to attack Iraq, dozens of Kurdian militants penetrated Iraq's routes to conduct spy and destructive activities.
However, his SBS naval navigation faced difficulties when their small forces suffered from superior rivals on firepower and had to open blood lines.
We didn't expect Iraqi people to fight so.
When we withdraw tactics, we take some vehicles.
The US green hat task force guides Kurdish militants in Iraq to shoot mortars before the 2003 campaign. Photo: US Army.
Meanwhile, the green hat task force and the Kurd's Peshmergian militia attacked the mountain point of Ansar Al-Islam and captured the position after a fierce fighting.
The early days were crazy.
Delta tasks are implemented to cause losses and harassment of Iraqi force in possibilities.
The Viking task captured many important Iraqi cities including Mosul, Tikrit and Kirkuk, while holding nearby oil fields.
Flower blooming campaign in northern Iraq successfully so the green pot soldier of the Viking task has won 7 silver stars and 52 honorary copper stars, the third and fourth higher prizes for the courage