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Joint Special Operations Task Force – North (JSOTF-N), also known as Task Force Viking was the command responsible for the northern front during Operation Iraqi Freedom Rotation I (2003–2004). It secured Kirkuk, Mosul, and the northern oil fields; prevented 13 Iraqi Army divisions from defending Baghdad or reinforcing defensive operations against United States and British troops advancing in the south, and thwarted Turkish efforts to subvert Kurdistan. Task Force Viking conducted unconventional warfare, special reconnaissance, direct action, and call-for-fire missions in order to disrupt and fix Iraqi forces arrayed along the "Green Line", the nominal 1991 demarcation line between the Kurdish northern provinces of Iraq and the remainder controlled by Saddam Hussein.