Investigative journalist Bob Woodward has revealed details about how US forces have carried out targeted assassinations in Iraq as part of the so-called surge. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Woodward said, “This is very sensitive and very top secret, but there are secret operational capabilities that have been developed by the military to locate, target and kill leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq, insurgent leaders, renegade militia leaders.” Woodward writes about the secret program in his new book The War Within. Woodward reports this secret assassination program has played a key role in the decreasing level of violence in Iraq.