Hands on Lt.Gen. McChrystal

Rowan Scarborough:

A group of American terrorist-hunters that included one of the most senior commanders in Iraq quickly descended on the burned-out rubble that framed the dying body of Abu Musab Zarqawi.
The deadly operative of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Zarqawi had been the personal quarry of a super-secret task force whose backbone is the Army Delta Force and Navy SEALs of U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Its commander, Army Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, was so personally involved in the hunt that he went with his men to the bombed-out hut near Baqouba to make sure they got their man.
A source close to the special-operations community said Gen. McChrystal's eyes-on identification is representative of the three-star general's hands-on approach as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's chief terrorist pursuer in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"He goes on raids. He doesn't sit back at headquarters," said the source, who asked not to be named. A spokesman at U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Fla., declined to comment on the general's operating style.
The West Point graduate's personal commitment to the mission has led some to dub him the first "commander-forward" of JSOC. He spends little time at the command's headquarters at Fort Bragg, N.C. Instead, he shuttles between task forces in Afghanistan and Iraq to personally supervise hundreds of commandos.
Gen. McChrystal's team was so instrumental in finding Zarqawi, and enabling an Air Force F-16 National Guard pilot to kill him in an air strike, that President Bush thanked the general in a phone call to him and Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.
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The task force's special intelligence unit cinched the kill. Once Jordanian agents identified Zarqawi's clerical adviser, a frequent visitor to the al Qaeda in Iraq leader, the intelligence unit used special technical means to track his whereabouts. On June 7, the unwitting accomplice ended up on the front door of the terrorist's hide-out. JSOC has used the technical means to track and capture scores of Zarqawi henchmen.
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There is more. I am sure that he is looking forward to viewing the scene of Osama bin Laden's and Zawahiri's demise. Whethere there will be as much intelligence to exploit at that point may be another question. The capture of Khalid Sheik Mohammad and other top associates has already revealed much of al Qaeda's rolodex.