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Coalition Forces Detain 26 in Three Incidents, Find Munitions
American Forces Press Service ^

Posted on 09/24/2006 1:20:36 PM PDT by SandRat

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2006 – Coalition forces detained 21 suspected terrorists in Iraq yesterday, while another five suspects were detained and a weapons cache discovered based on an Iraqi citizen’s tip.

Iraqi army and Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers detained 21 suspected terrorists in several incidents around Baghdad.

Soldiers from 4th Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, stopped eight vehicles attempting to speed through a checkpoint south of Baghdad. While searching the vehicles, the soldiers seized illegal weapons and took 13 suspected terrorists into custody.

About three hours later, terrorists attacked soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 8th Iraqi Army Division, 30 kilometers south of Baghdad. The terrorists killed an Iraqi soldier after firing on the Iraqi troops with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. The soldiers fought off their attackers and detained eight suspected terrorists.

Iron Brigade soldiers also quickly acted on intelligence gathered from an Iraqi citizen to apprehend five suspected insurgents and find a cache of various munitions and weapons yesterday.

The Iraqi informed a patrol from Company A, 1st Battalion, 68th Armor, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Task Force Lightning, about a house used by insurgents to coordinate attacks on Iraqi security and coalition forces.

The patrol approached and surrounded the house, in which they detained five individuals. The patrol found a Russian-made PKC machine gun, AK-47 assault rifles, magazines, mortar rounds taped together, a case of ammunition, projectiles, a bandoleer, and a sniper rifle with a scope. The detainees were brought to Forward Operating Base Warhorse for further questioning.

(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 26; capture; coalition; forces; munitions; operationsincidents; raid

1 posted on 09/24/2006 1:20:38 PM PDT by SandRat
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To: 91B; HiJinx; Spiff; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; clintonh8r; TEXOKIE; windchime; Grampa Dave; ...
FR WAR NEWS!

WAR News You'll Hear Nowhere Else!

2 posted on 09/24/2006 1:20:56 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

101st Airborne has received an urgent message from Lindsay Graham - Please don't be too aggressive in the questioning of these suspects. They might miss evening prayers.


3 posted on 09/24/2006 1:37:04 PM PDT by mission9 (Be a citizen worth living for, in a Nation worth dying for...)
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To: mission9

Screaming Eagles to Goober Graham: Whose side are you on?


4 posted on 09/24/2006 1:49:58 PM PDT by RedRover (Stand up and be counted: Johnstown October first!)
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To: SandRat

Too many prisioners.


5 posted on 09/24/2006 1:54:01 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: Unicorn

precisely!


6 posted on 09/24/2006 2:09:58 PM PDT by pipecorp ( Al Lahsuchs...Islam: nothing that a good crusade wouldn't fix ;; mercy is wasted on the merciless.)
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To: pipecorp; Unicorn
As I have posted on similar threads, the winning side with good morale does not run around with their hands up.

This is great news!

7 posted on 09/24/2006 2:31:25 PM PDT by magslinger (If at first you don't succeed, squeeze, squeeze again.)
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