Posted on 06/10/2005 6:44:53 PM PDT by mdittmar
Iraqi Army and Task Force Baghdad soldiers captured 33 terror suspects, seized 2 million Iraqi dinars and confiscated a variety of bomb-making materials in a series of operations conducted June 8 and 9, military officials in Baghdad reported.
The Iraqi Ministry of Interior's Wolf Brigade rounded up the largest capture: 23 suspects in an early-morning raid June 9.
Also on June 9, three separate operations in central and south Baghdad yielded five more terror suspects, including one foreign fighter and two suspected members of a known terrorist cell.
A day earlier in central Baghdad, Iraqi police captured another foreign fighter in a major arrest that also netted 2 million Iraqi dinars and $6,750 in U.S. currency, officials said. Also discovered were large quantities of fertilizer, chemicals used in making explosives and a picture of Saddam Hussein. The suspect was taken into custody for questioning.
Later that same day, an Iraqi shopkeeper tipped off U.S. soldiers to a suspicious vehicle abandoned on the side of a highway. The car was weighted in the rear, with gas cans visible in the back seat. An explosives team safely detonated the vehicle.
"The operations and arrests made by the Iraqi security forces over the past couple of days continue to demonstrate that the Iraqis can and are taking the fight to the terrorists," Task Force Baghdad spokesman Lt. Col. Clifford Kent said.
In another June 9 operation, task force soldiers on patrol spotted wires coming out of a mound of dirt along a highway in south Baghdad. As an EOD team approached that bomb, a second bomb exploded in the area. One soldier suffered minor injuries. Three more bombs were found and safely detonated.
(Compiled from a Task Force Baghdad media release.)
apparanetly the US Military didnt get the memo....they are correctly called INSURGENTS
2 million Iraqi dinars is about $1400. I guess it is a lot if you worked for $3 a month under Saddam.
Fry'em! Cut their heads off, just don't spill any blood on Koran.
Good post. Yet another success story. These ongoing operations are surely helping this budding Iraqi army and police force gain experience and most importantly some pride as they see they are taking things into their own hands and starting to make an effect on the conditions in this city.
I reported elsewhere via. a CENTCOM report that a major weapon cache was just found in SE Baghdad in a factory. The owner reported the stuff. He wants to open the factory for business but could not with all the ordnance being present.
Another good sign. Get rid of the bad stuff, get rid of the insurgents ability to make bombs, point out the insurgents and terrorists and local criminals, and open up business and employ people. The L/MSM's teeth must be ground down to their gum line at this point, as they stay silent and gnash their teeth.
ping
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