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Posted on 01/10/2004 9:25:57 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
MOSUL, Iraq, Jan. 9, 2003 -Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) captured six people suspected of anti-coalition activities during pre-dawn raids in northern Iraq Jan. 8, according to U.S. Central Command officials.
Officials said an element of the division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team detained five individuals in Ash Shura for attacks on coalition forces and for their connections to making improvised explosive devices. The element confiscated an AK-47 rifle and electrical components that could be used for making the homemade bombs.
In Mosul, officials said 3rd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment detained a man wanted for the sale of two Samoud missiles during a joint cordon-and-knock operation with Iraqi Civil Defense Corps soldiers.
In Northwest Iraq, concerned citizens helped support 101st Airborne Division activities by turning in large caches of weapons Jan. 7. Officials said two high-level Baath Party officials, one from the town of Tal Afar and one from Zumar, turned in weapons to 3rd Brigade Combat Team soldiers. The collections included 69 AK-47s, 98 magazines, 98 82-millimeter mortar rounds and a sandbag full of mortar fuses.
Members of the Coalition for Iraqi National Unity, a concerned group of locals, turned in one 57-millimeter high explosive round, 15 hand grenades, 200 7.62 rounds, two heavy machine guns, 50 rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) rounds and 24 60-millimeter mortar rounds to the team.
A local citizen also turned in two surface-to-air missiles to the Division Main headquarters in Mosul.
Officials said he continuing cooperation from the local former Ba’ath party members signifies a willingness to assist the Coalition in rebuilding and reconstruction efforts in northern Iraq.
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