Posted on 05/10/2008 9:31:34 AM PDT by SandRat
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces and soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad captured terrorists and seized multiple weapons and ordnance May 9 during clearing operations in the West Rashid district of southern Baghdad.
At 2:15 p.m., Iraqi Army soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 43rd Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division, seized an AK-47 rifle with 152 rounds, an RPK machine gun with 250 rounds and 60 mortar fuses.
MND-B soldiers from Company B, 4th Bn., 64th Armor Regiment confiscated a rocket-propelled grenade, a PKC machine gun with 600 rounds, a hand grenade, a 60 mm mortar round and four homemade explosives in a house located in Risalah. The munitions were taken to a nearby combat outpost for disposal by an explosive ordnance disposal team.
Also, soldiers from the Company A, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, wounded a suspected terrorist and detained two others after the group attacked soldiers with small-arms fire at approximately 3:50 p.m. The wounded suspect was turned over to Iraqi authorities.
At 4:15 p.m., the same patrol from Co. A, 1-22 Inf. Regt., seized an explosively formed projectile, two RPG launchers and three RPG rounds in the Jihad neighborhood.
“Iraqi Security Forces in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad, along with Raider Brigade soldiers are keeping the terrorists off balance by uncovering these caches, disrupting the terrorists’ networks and detaining them,” said Maj. Dave Olson, spokesman, 1st BCT, 4th Inf. Div., MND-B. “The ISF continue to work alongside the 1st BCT, providing security for the district and its neighborhoods and preventing the terrorists and criminals from conducting acts of violence against the citizens of Iraq.”
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