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Tipsters lead to capture of south Baghdad’s most wanted terrorist, cache
Multi-National Force - Iraq ^ | 2nd BDE CBT, 10th MTN DIV

Posted on 07/20/2007 5:40:17 PM PDT by SandRat

AL-DHOUR — With two well-timed phone calls, Iraqi civilians made a few Soldiers’ day recently.

The first tipster called Troop C, 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., and alerted them to a cache south of the village of Al-Dhour, south of Baghdad.

The troop responded, located the buried weapons, and was only five minutes into the process of digging them up when they got another call.

A man claimed he had the 2nd BCT’s top high-value target and would deliver him to coalition custody. The man and Capt. Adam Sawyer, Troop C commander, agreed on a pickup site.

The Soldiers hastily re-buried the cache and moved out. When the vehicle arrived, they stopped it and took the most wanted man and two other men into custody.

Some of the Soldiers were still able to see the cache from their vantage point, and were surprised to see a civilian pickup truck stop there and begin hastily loading the weapons into the bed of the truck.

They engaged the vehicle with an M-240 machine gun. The men tried to flee, but the Troop C Soldiers detained them all and called an explosive ordnance disposal team to destroy the weapons.

Sawyer, a native of Reading, Pa., was jubilant about the operation.

“All of this was possible because of sources we’ve developed, through local-national engagements and working with the residents of the area,” he said. “It’s our work with the people in these areas, our relations with them, paying off.

The primary target is allegedly responsible for shooting down an AH-64 helicopter in April 2006, the abductions of two Soldiers in June 2006, and complex attacks on patrol bases and terrorist acts against both coalition forces and Iraqi civilians.

Additionally, he is believed to be the leader of an al-Qaida network, known to prey on the general public through intimidation and murder against those resisting compliance to the al-Qaida demands and decrees.

One of the detainees had been wounded in a previous engagement, and was taken to a coalition hospital for treatment. The other six are being held for further questioning.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; cache; capture; enemy; frwn; iraq; terrorist; tipsters
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1 posted on 07/20/2007 5:40:19 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 at Home and Abroad You'll Hear Nowhere Else!

All the News the MSM refuses to use!

Or if they do report it, without the anti-War Agenda Spin!

2 posted on 07/20/2007 5:41:10 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

Quagmire! ! !


3 posted on 07/20/2007 5:42:56 PM PDT by Delta 21 ( MKC USCG - ret)
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To: SandRat
Sawyer, a native of Reading, Pa., was jubilant about the operation.

Woo Hoo! A PA homeboy!!

4 posted on 07/20/2007 5:43:15 PM PDT by airborne (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: SandRat

Isn’t this the sort of thing the Democrats voted against today?


5 posted on 07/20/2007 5:53:34 PM PDT by Aria (NO RAPIST ENABLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!)
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To: Aria

Yep,... encouraged by Mullah Murtha of the House and lead by Lord “Haw-Haw” Reid of the House of Lords. < / sarc


6 posted on 07/20/2007 5:58:06 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat
Harry Reid is deeply saddened...


7 posted on 07/20/2007 6:00:11 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (The Democrat Party: radical Islam's last hope)
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To: COBOL2Java

good news but it would have been better had they detained them after they assumed room temperature.


8 posted on 07/20/2007 6:13:29 PM PDT by fatrat
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To: SandRat
Very good news. They got the weapons cache, got a high value target and then the perps trying to recover the weapons cash. I would say that is a very good day.
9 posted on 07/20/2007 6:17:18 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SandRat; SoldierDad

Thanks.

10th Mountain update.


10 posted on 07/20/2007 6:21:16 PM PDT by wizr (Freedom ain't free.. Common sense ain't common,. Read Jeremiah, Chapters 18 & 19)
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To: SandRat

The Surge is Working and Al Queda is in a Quagmire

Pray for W and Our Troops


11 posted on 07/20/2007 6:24:50 PM PDT by bray (Member of the FR President Bush underground)
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To: SandRat

Warm up the panties and the waterboards and get those boys talking!


12 posted on 07/20/2007 6:26:21 PM PDT by KyHammer ( If they say they want you dead, believe it.)
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To: SandRat

LOL! “Mullah Murtha and Lord ‘Haw-Haw’ Reid”! You nailed it! They both look like they were weaned on a pickle. Go 10th Mountain. God bless our troops!


13 posted on 07/20/2007 6:58:24 PM PDT by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
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To: fishergirl

Then you must have equally low regards for “Pol-Pot” Pelosi


14 posted on 07/20/2007 7:00:34 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: airborne

Sawyer, a native of Reading, Pa., was jubilant about the operation.
Woo Hoo! A PA homeboy!!


I Imagine the Reading Phillies will have a Day for Sawyer!
The Outlets might have Sawyer discount Day and then have his picture taken at the pagoda Looking over Reading!


15 posted on 07/20/2007 7:08:14 PM PDT by philly-d-kidder (a Balmy 106 Degrees at 3 am.... and still Sandy in the Kuwaiti desert!)
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To: SandRat

Indeed! We think along the same lines. Thanks for all your posts about the good work our troops are accomplishing! God bless ‘em all!


16 posted on 07/20/2007 7:12:51 PM PDT by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
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To: SandRat

Yes, oh, yes....General David Petraeus has been named by the Kurds as King David...WOW...is this ever working..we’ve turned the corner...prayers are being answered!!!


17 posted on 07/20/2007 7:17:50 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: SandRat

I hope the tipsters survive and don’t suffer horrible, violent deaths.

IMO, this would warrant moving them to the US for a period of time and giving them new IDs.


18 posted on 07/20/2007 7:18:54 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: All
Re: pic shown above......photoshoppers and other artistes, attention!

Wouldn't Dingy Harry and Cindy Shehag make the perfect pair for a photoshopped "American Gothic" painting?

Of course, a set of horns should be added to Harry's evil noggin to complement the famous pitchfork in the original.

I'll contribute 25 bucks to the Freepathon if someone accomplishes this black magic and pings me.

Leni

19 posted on 07/20/2007 7:30:32 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Three Cheers for the FRed, White and Blue !)
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To: fatrat
If they were room temp., we could not be able to slap and spat them and, get further vital information that may save the lives of my fellow soldiers. Information on size, activity, location, unit(s), terrain, equipment, etc., the enemy has, or is operating in. All of this info is vital to defeating them, and protecting ours.
20 posted on 07/20/2007 7:43:12 PM PDT by paratrooper82 (82 Airborne 1/508th BN "fury from the sky")
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