A new US-military-led task force specializing in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as ‘El Mencho,’ a US defense official told Reuters.The Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel, which involves multiple US government agencies, was formally launched last month with the goal of mapping out networks of drug cartel members on both sides of the US-Mexico border, US officials said.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The US official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, did not offer further details on any information that the US-military-led task force may have offered Mexican authorities. The official stressed the raid itself was a Mexican military operation.A former US official, speaking on condition of anonymity without referring specifically to the task force, said the US compiled a detailed target package for El Mencho and