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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20050510.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
May 7, 2005
Release Number: 05-05-10
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Task Force Liberty Soldiers stop VBIED attack
MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ
COMBINED PRESS INFORMATION CENTER
BAGHDAD, Iraq
May 7, 2005
Release A050507e
Task Force Liberty Soldiers stop VBIED attack
TIKRIT, Iraq Task Force Liberty Soldiers chased and stopped a vehicle loaded with artillery rounds and wired as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device outside a Coalition Forces base in Tikrit at about 8 a.m. May 7.
Security personnel on the base identified the vehicle as a potential VBIED when it repeatedly drove past Coalition checkpoints. A quick reaction force from 3rd Battalion, 133rd Field Artillery Regiment, with support from Iraqi police, pursued the vehicle and trapped it in an alley.
The driver fled the vehicle and escaped. Task Force Liberty explosive ordnance disposal personnel detonated the vehicle where the driver left it.
No Task Force Liberty Soldiers or Iraqi police were injured in the incident.
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For video and still photo imagery of this incident, go to www.dvidshub.net. For additional information concerning this release, contact 42nd Infantry Division Public Affairs at Fortysecond.id.pao@us.army.mil
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Thanks to PIASA for pointing to this article and thread.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1398663/posts?page=10
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