 Later he was reported to have been seen alive but wounded and being driven through the streets of Haditha, handcuffed, by insurgents.Two days after the killing of the USMC sniper teams, around 1,000 members of the USMC's Regimental Combat Team 2 (RCT-2), along with Iraqi soldiers, started "Operation Quick Strike", which included efforts to find the insurgents responsible, however the primary intent was to interdict and disrupt militants' presence in the Haditha, Haqliniyah, and Barwanah areas.The operation began when Marines and Iraqi soldiers moved into Haqliniyah, about seven kilometers southwest of Haditha.