June 2006. In the dead of night, a Chinook helicopter lifted off from a secluded desert airbase in Iraq.

Inside elite troops from Britain's Special Air Service, the SAS, were sitting side by side. They were checking their weapons and munition, night vision goggles and radio equipment.

These fighters were part of a secretive unit, codenamed Task Force Black.

They were traveling towards a remote farmhouse on the outskirts of Baghdad. Inside was their target.

Abu Musab al-Zakari, the mastermind behind countless bombings, kidnappings and beheadings as the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

As the operation approached the farmhouse, two smaller helicopters flanked them.

They were accompanied by a couple of smaller helicopters, lynxes with snipers in them that would orbit over the target.

And then last in the order, if you like, of this little flying armada, were a couple of bigger helicopters with the force that would be used to put what they call the coden around the alpha, the coden being the belt of security.

So that if anybody jumped out the window made a run for it, squirt as they called them, either the people in the helicopters, the orbiting snipers or the coden would take care of those people.

The fighters landed stealthily onto the desert floor and began closing in on the property.

Two scouts climbed over a small stone wall and crawled towards the farmhouse looking for signs of life and possible entrance points.

Pining their backs against the uneven concrete, they peered through a crack in the wall to catch a glimpse inside.

Inside the building was, if you like, a protection detail of people for this particular amir that the SAS had targeted.

There were at least two, possibly three, wearing suicide masks.

There were half a dozen assault rifles. There were dozens of hand grenades. These people were heavily armed.

They must be protecting something, or someone important. But could it be Abu Musab al-Sakari?

Finally, after years of brutal anarchy in the war-torn country, could this be his end?

Welcome to covert, a show about the shadowy world of international espionage and top secret military operations.

The entire country was essentially embroiled in a civil war. There was beheadings every day. There were suicide bombings.

There was this retaliatory acts of terrorism going on between the Sunni and Shietz. Every day you would wake up and read about murders and decapitations and all types of horror facts.

I'm Jamie Ranel, and I'm going to take you inside history's greatest special operations missions to learn about the brave soldiers and operatives who risked their lives to terminate the world's most wanted, eliminate terrorist threats and protect countless innocent lives.

Abu Musab al-Sakari had been thought to be responsible for years long bloody war in Iraq. But who was this evil man?

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