The aim of these covert operations should be clear: to foment sectarian division in iraq.  The side effect of additional american casualties is of no consequence to the interests that control the USA.

Were British Special Forces Soldiers Planting Bombs in Basra?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=994

http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=4800

State Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9447

British Terrorism in Iraq

http://www.globalresearch.ca/british-terrorism-in-iraq/1024

Who benefits?  Who can buy such influence and keep it covered up in the mainstream media?  Their very power and success betrays their identity.  Look to where money comes from if you want to know who really runs things.

Sniping US Soldiers in Iraq: An Inside Job

http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2011/10/sniping-us-soldiers-in-iraq-an-inside-job/