In the early hours of April 16, 2006, SEAL Team Six and Army Rangers conducted a raid on an "Anger Brigades" safe house in Yusufiyah, a small town 20 miles southwest of Baghdad. One of the men detained was “Abu Haydr,” a genial 43-year old with a penchant for Harry Potter books, whose girth nearly buckled the white plastic chairs in the interrogation rooms. For three weeks he was questioned twice daily but gave up nothing. Finally, an interrogation ruse tricked the Iraqi into revealing the existence of Abd al-Rahman, a Sunni cleric from a mosque in Baghdad’s Mansur district. “He is Abu Musab al Zarqawi’s personal spiritual advisor,” Abu Haydr said. “If you want Zarqawi, watch al Rahman.” He said that whenever they met, Rahman would change cars a number of times in the middle of his trip. Only when he got into a blue sedan would he be taken directly to Zarqawi.
On May 20, Task Force 145 began watching Rahman's every move, hoping it would lead to Iraq's most wanted man.
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