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3RD BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM CAPTURES 34 SUSPECTS
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Posted on 01/02/2004 10:40:11 AM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
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January 2, 2004
Release Number: 04-01-06
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
3RD BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM CAPTURES 34 SUSPECTS
BAGHDAD, Iraq Soldiers from Task Force 1st Armored Divisions 3rd Brigade Combat Team detained 34 suspected insurgents along with several weapons and bomb making materials during a cordon and search operation Jan. 1.
The mission kicked off at about 10 a.m. in central Baghdad. Iraqi Police, Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and soldiers from 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment surrounded and searched the Al Tabul Mosque. Intelligence sources indicated that the mosque was a center for anti-Coalition activity and a major weapons storage area.
The operation was completed at about 3 p.m. and a total of 34 persons were detained for questioning.
The mission also netted 11 AK-47 assault rifles, five sticks of PE4 explosives, eight hand grenades, three packages of TNT, a case of blasting caps, 83 pounds of gunpowder. Also recovered was a 60 mm mortar tube, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, a SA-7 missile, four computers with disks, assorted documents and two pictures of Saddam Hussein.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1ad; centcom; cjtf7; gnfi; goodguys; icdc; iraq
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Police, Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and soldiers from 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment surrounded and searched the Al Tabul Mosque. The highlighted portion is very big news.
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posted on
01/02/2004 10:41:19 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: r9etb; MJY1288; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; Ernest_at_the_Beach; BOBTHENAILER; ...
Headline news, yes!
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The mission also netted 11 AK-47 assault rifles, five sticks of PE4 explosives, eight hand grenades, three packages of TNT, a case of blasting caps, 83 pounds of gunpowder. Also recovered was a 60 mm mortar tube, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, a SA-7 missile, four computers with disks, assorted documents and two pictures of Saddam Hussein.
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Found inside the Mosque, where members pretended innocence and protested today.
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posted on
01/02/2004 10:49:49 AM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
( "Our military is full of the finest people on the face of the earth." ~ Pres. Bush, Baghdad)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Sorry to say, this sounds like "body count" to me!
To: r9etb
bttt
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posted on
01/02/2004 10:50:06 AM PST
by
TLI
(...........ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA..........)
To: r9etb
Indeed this is significant. With Iraqi's helping the mosques are going to start to get cleaned out.
One thing that I like to see is that they got "four computers with disks, assorted documents . . ." They can keep the two pictures of Saddam.
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posted on
01/02/2004 10:51:20 AM PST
by
Cap Huff
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
They should have conducted an in-place EOD exercise.
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posted on
01/02/2004 10:53:24 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(this space intentionally blank)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
I served with the 1st Armored, 3 Brigade in Bamber Germany with the 1st Bn 52nd Inf. Anyone know what the status of the unit is? Are the Ready Rifles still active?
Anyone able to supply a URL that would allow me to look for myself?
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posted on
01/02/2004 11:00:59 AM PST
by
taxcontrol
(People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Yes I saw the "protest" on the news. Appeared suspiciously to be geared toward the cameras IMO.
Prairie
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posted on
01/02/2004 11:10:33 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(President George W. Bush....most assuredly, MY President!)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
These are not suspects. They are illegal combatants, a war crime.
Civilian rags are no military uniform.
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posted on
01/02/2004 11:59:36 AM PST
by
SevenDaysInMay
(Federal judges and justices serve for periods of good behavior, not life. Article III sec. 1)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
By now,it should be apparent that mosques need some serious attention.
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posted on
01/02/2004 12:09:09 PM PST
by
whizzer
To: whizzer
Some might need to be leveled!
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posted on
01/02/2004 12:36:18 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Davis is now out of Arnoold's Office , Bout Time!!!!)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
3RD BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM CAPTURES 34 SUSPECTS ~ Bump!
The mission also netted 11 AK-47 assault rifles, five sticks of PE4 explosives, eight hand grenades, three packages of TNT, a case of blasting caps, 83 pounds of gunpowder. Also recovered was a 60 mm mortar tube, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, a SA-7 missile, four computers with disks, assorted documents and two pictures of Saddam Hussein ~ Bump!
Are these items necessary for worshiping Allah? :)
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posted on
01/02/2004 1:07:55 PM PST
by
blackie
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
soldiers from 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment Redlegs!
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posted on
01/02/2004 1:25:19 PM PST
by
aBootes
To: aBootes
BTTT for our Defenders of Freedom -- and for IRAQ's Defenders of Freedom.
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
The operation was completed at about 3 p.m. and a total of 34 persons were detained for questioning.
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posted on
01/02/2004 7:16:57 PM PST
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Lots of weapons confiscated = lives saved.
Four computers with disks = more intel.
WOOOHOOOOO!!!
My guess is they can find the same things in the vast majority of mosques in Iraq.
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posted on
01/03/2004 12:24:24 AM PST
by
radu
(May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
To: prairiebreeze
Yeah, totally phony. What's worse, who cares if we stepped on some print of words from the Koran? Go get another copy.
Geez. Is this all they have?
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posted on
01/03/2004 12:29:12 AM PST
by
Fledermaus
(STOP MAD DEMOCRAT DISEASE NOW! INSPECT ALL SCHOOLS!)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
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posted on
01/03/2004 1:26:52 PM PST
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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