Three insurgents detained
U.S. Army Soldiers from the 155 Brigade Combat Team, 198th Armor, detain a suspected drug dealer and terrorist in the city of Najaf, Iraq on July 30, 2005. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Jeromy K. Cross)
August 20, 2005
BALAD RUZ, Iraq -- Soldiers of the 2-1-5 Iraqi Army Battalion detained three suspected insurgents August 15 in possession of anti-coalition handbills. These three insurgents confessed to printing and distributing anti-coalition handbills and have confessed to having knowledge of other insurgent personalities and operations.
News Brief By 42nd Infantry Division PAO
Iraqi national arrested for suspected links with Aqaba attack -- source AMMAN, Aug 20 (KUNA) -- Jordanian security authorities have arrested one person suspected of having links with the attack against the city of Aqaba yesterday, a security source said Saturday.
He told KUNA the suspect, who was arrested by driving his car, carried the Iraqi nationality.
The security authorities have, immediately after two rockets hit the Aqaba port area yesterday morning, carried out wide-scale combing operations in the Shallaleh and Khazzan areas, as well as searching in surrounding areas.
Two of the rockets hit a warehouse used by the Jordanian army and a hospital killing one soldier and wounding another. A third rocket hit the Israeli touristic city of Eilat slightly wounding an Israeli soldier.