Posted on 12/29/2006 8:08:34 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
PRESS RELEASE A061229a
December 29, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – FOUR TERRORISTS KILLED; TWO IED BUILDINGS DESTROYED
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces killed four terrorists and destroyed two buildings along with nearby cache sites containing improvised explosive device equipment during a raid Friday morning in Thar Thar.
Intelligence reports indicated IEDs were being produced in the targeted buildings. Upon entering the first building, Coalition Forces were engaged by armed terrorists. Coalition Forces returned fire killing four terrorists. While searching the targeted buildings and surrounding area, ground forces found a significant cache consisting a large amount of IED making material to include 16 pounds of homemade explosives, one 60-pound and one 80-pound bomb. Also found on the site were multiple batteries, blasting caps, a rocket-propelled grenade,100 feet of detonation cord, suicide vests, grenades and machine guns.
Coalition Forces coordinated an air strike that destroyed the buildings containing the weapons cache.
No civilians were injured during this operation.
Coalition Forces continue to dismantle the AQIZ terrorist network inside Iraq. The capture of these terrorists and the destruction of these buildings reduces the ability of the terrorist network to operate, and increases the safety of all Iraqi citizens, Iraqi forces and Iraq’s multi-national partners.
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REAL NEWS NOT SEEN IN THE MSM BECAUSE CREATING ARTIFICIAL CONTROVERSIES TAKE UP ALL THE TIME.
Stand by for Greenpeace lawsuit. I thought it was frickin' hilarious when a U.S. warship ran over their sailboat and sunk it when they were trying to disrupt a sub-launched ICBM test.
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