Headhunters

Background
The Headhunters are a narco-terrorist drug-smuggling cartel. Led by the man known only as Headman, they surfaced in the early 1990s peddling their wares in the Cobra-controlled town of Broca Beach. The GI Joe Drug Elimination Force were able to drive them out, although suspicions were raised about Cobra's presence. Later, Cobra Commander staged an attack on a US Strategic Defence Initiative facility in New York, solely to target the Headhunters ship off the coast. Headman was subsequently captured by GI Joe.

The group's activities continued, now under the leadership of an operative known as Gristle. Gristle was captured in 1996 by Q-Force aquatroopers in Nueva Galicia. Headhunters operating in Uruguay captured several members of Task Force 282 in the same year, leading to a battle between the two groups which left several TF282 members dead.

Stories
The Headhunters appear in the following stories:

Scalped

The Raid