<P> From 2005, SEALs were heavily committed to western Iraq in Al Anbar Governorate, AQI terrorists who escaped Fallujah had relocated to Ramadi . A SEAL Task Unit was co-located with the Marines at Al Asad Airbase and sent elements to Ramadi and Habbaniyah, the SEALs were initially tasked with target development for the Marines and providing sniper overwatch for their patrols . The SEALs were already training an Iraqi Army unit in Habbaniyah, although FID was their main focus until later that year . A SEAL Task Unit generally comprised two individual SEAL Platoons: each Platoon was made up of seven - man squad elements commanded by a junior officer, three of these Task Units (although a fourth was often added) along with a Special Boat Team detachment and a Headquarters Team (including integral intelligence, targeting and EOD personnel) made up a Naval Special Warfare Squadron . According to Dick Couch, the SEALs began FID with two Iraqi units - the Army Scouts who conducted conventional reconnaissance missions, and the SMP (Special Missions Platoon), a locally formed unit that would later fight alongside the SEALs . Despite several challenges, the SEALs were soon conducted operations with partnered units, particularly in Special Reconnaissance, focusing on the surveillance aspect, whilst conventional US Army or Marines would conduct raids and arrests . The typical loadout of the SEALs in Ramadi included the M4 carbine, optimised for close quarter battle with a 10 - inch barrel equipped with a 6 - inch sound suppressor, Surefire flashlight and EOTech sight, short barrel and foregrip and seven magazines . </P> <P> As the SEALs were beginning to make headway in Ramadi, AQI was starting to infiltrate the area by targeting local Sheikhs and convincing them to allow jihadists to marry into local tribes, thus cementing their powerbase and Sheikhs that resisted these advances were met with typical AQI brutality . Al - Qaeda's efforts to install a Sharia - style shadow government in Ramadi led to AQI's downfall - when in the first half of 2006, in the run - up to the Second Battle of Ramadi SEALs, increasingly partnered with conventional forces of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division which was planning the offensive . SEALs along with the Scouts and SMP, would conduct reconnaissance, surveillance and sniper overwatch tasks; with their own targeting cell, they also began conducting raids on local insurgent leaders . The 1st BCT began the concerted offensive to clear Ramadi of AQI fighters; on 29 September 2006, whilst at a rooftop overwatch position, Petty Officer Michael A. Monsoor died after leaping upon an enemy grenade during a rooftop firefight, two SEALs on the roof were badly wounded from the grenade fragments and their local Iraqi Scouts ran back into the cover of the building, a fourth SEAL (only lightly wounded), managed to radio his colleagues and get the Scouts to return fire . A SEAL element in a second overwatch position immediately ran through heavy fire to reach Monsoor (whom later died from his wounds in the back of a Bradley IFV) and the wounded SEALs, Monsoor was later awarded the Medal of Honor and the Silver Star . The advances by conventional forces and the SEALs in Ramadi, combined with the brutal tactics of AQI, helped to increase recruitment in a local police initiative - the programme was designed to bring the local Sheikhs' militias into the Iraqi Security Forces . These volunteers would serve locally in their communities to defend them against al - Qaeda, a month after the kidnapping and murder of Sheikh Khalid by AQI (which proved to be the tipping point), the Sheikhs signed a declaration agreeing to fight AQI and by the closing of 2006, even former insurgents were joining the local police (later known as the Anbar Awakening) by the end of the battle, some 1,100 terrorists were killed . </P> <P> In Fallujah, the SEAL Task Unit were also heavily involved in fighting . In one joint operation to capture an AQI leader, they entered the target building and were engaged resulting in an Iraqi Scout being killed and a SEAL severely wounded, two SEALs returned fire and entered the building, both SEALs entered different rooms, in one room the SEAL encountered three insurgents who opened fired at close range, another SEAL across the hallway was struck in the head and killed, the SEAL in the room with the insurgents killed all three . </P> <P> In September 2009, in a nighttime raid in Fallujah, SEALs captured Ahmad Hashim Abd al - Isawi (nicknamed the "Butcher of Fallujah"), a prominent al - Qaeda terrorist who was the mastermind behind the 2004 Fallujah ambush . Al - Isawai made accusations of mistreatment while in custody, and testified in April 2010 at the ensuing courts - martial against three SEALs (all of whom were acquitted). Iraqi authorities later tried and executed al - Isawi by hanging at some point before November 2013 . </P>

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