This is the true story of how a coalition effort between American and British special force units brought down, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the mastermind behind countless bombings, kidnappings and beheadings in Iraq as the leader of A.Q.I. This episode is sponsored by: Great Courses (https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/covert) Mint Mobile (https://www.mintmobile.com/covert) Covert's theme is "Anxiety" by Kai Engel (https://www.kai-engel.com/) .  Music in this episode is “Something (Bonus Track)” by Kai Engel; “Never Again” by Ars Sonor (https://www.deviantart.com/frequency-alcyone) ; "Haunty Fourstroke", "Violin Spider" and "Blhlicht" by Marco Trovatello (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Marco_Trovatello/) . Sound effects from freesound.org (http://freesound.org/) by syna-max (https://freesound.org/people/Syna-Max/sounds/60345/) , justinbw (https://freesound.org/people/JustinBW/sounds/70107/) , Dymewiz (https://freesound.org/people/Dymewiz/sounds/114390/) , kangaroovindaloo (https://freesound.org/people/kangaroovindaloo/sounds/138288/) , Huggy13ear (https://freesound.org/people/Huggy13ear/sounds/138959/) , soundmary (https://freesound.org/people/soundmary/sounds/194978/) , tehlordoswag420 (https://freesound.org/people/tehlordoswag420/sounds/204949/) , laurenmg95 (https://freesound.org/people/laurenmg95/sounds/386691/) , felix.blume (https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/434076/) and nicklas3799 (https://freesound.org/people/nicklas3799/sounds/467359/) . Additional sound effects from freesfx.co.uk. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)