Posted on 05/19/2004 2:35:34 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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1st ID soldiers capture suspects in mortar attacks By Steve Liewer, Stars and Stripes European edition, Tuesday, May 18, 2004 Its hard to catch the hit-and-run guerrillas who fire mortars at U.S. bases in Iraq, but 1st Infantry Division troops nabbed suspects twice last week. According to the units daily public affairs brief, a patrol from the 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry Regiment a New York National Guard unit attached to the divisions 2nd Brigade in the Balad area detained two suspects Wednesday after a mortar attack against Logistical Support Area Anaconda, a large air base just outside of Balad. The attack occurred about 5:20 p.m. and injured 10 people, including seven soldiers and three non-American civilian workers, said Maj. Richard Spiegel, spokesman for the 13th Corps Support Command, based at Anaconda. All of the injuries were considered minor. Apache attack helicopters and other aerial observation allowed the 2-108 Infantry patrol to be dispatched to a house near the base where two men had fled after the attack, according to the 1st ID report. After searching two vehicles, the patrol confiscated a blue pickup truck and an AK-47 assault rifle. Soldiers then took the two men to jail for questioning. In the second incident, a combat patrol followed a white pickup truck after a mortar attack at 12:54 p.m. Sunday against a base near Baqouba, about 40 miles northeast of Baghdad. The patrol, from the 2nd Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment, based in Vilseck, Germany, tracked the truck to a house and found 10 people unloading a cache of weapons, according to the 1st ID report. The cache included two Russian-made PKM machine guns with 2,600 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition. Soldiers escorted three of the men to jail. |
Get out the maxi pads.
Anybody know if they found the mortar tubes?
I wonder if they cried and protested their innocence?
They probably got pulled out of a wedding party.
Yes, they did.........mysteriously shoved up the perp's a**es.
A Big Red One Hooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!
Hooah. Good spot for 'em. Never fails to amaze me how many bad guys fall down and hurt their faces around mortar tubes, yanno....
Great News! I hope they get the panty treatment.
Bump!
"1st ID soldiers capture suspects in mortar attacks"
Notice the wording of this headline....
"Captured Suspects"
In war, we do not consider anyone as suspects - they have a gun, we kill them. If they drop their guns, we place them in POW compounds.
The phrase "Captured Suspects" denotes POLICE actions.
No more prisoners
And Ted Kennedy is watching closely to make sure these terrorists get treated like royalty.
Well, I guess if you're going to be one, be a Big Red One!!!
101st MI Alum, '81-'84
I was a Screaming Eagel at Campbell 1974-1977.
BUMP!!
??? Oh, wait...right...101st Military Intelligence Bn of the 1st ID, quartered on Custer Hill, then at Camp Forsyth...not the Air Assault guys!
I have one of their Huey crew chiefs working for me now, though!
I wonder if the other "aerial observation" was related to these guys.
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