Special mission units have been involved in high profile military operations such as the death of Osama Bin Laden and capture of Saddam Hussein.
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On December 13, 2003, during the Iraq War, American forces in Operation Red Dawn captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein hiding in what was characterized as a "spider hole" in a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit.