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RELEASE No. 20071231-06
December 31, 2007
Explosives found, hostage rescued during joint Saydiyah operation
4th IBCT Public Affairs
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers destroyed an abandoned house, and rescued a kidnapping victim during clearing operations in West Rashid Dec. 26.
Iraqi Army and Soldiers of the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, Task Force Dragon found homemade and plastic explosives during the joint operation aimed at quelling unrest in the Saydiyah area.
Explosive ordnance disposal personnel remotely detonated the cache, destroying the unoccupied house. There was no collateral damage.
IA Soldiers entered a house in search of a crane operator who had been kidnapped days before.
The man was taken to a Coalition Forces’ facility for medical screening.
Soldiers from Company B, 4th – 64th Armored Regiment also found a cache of eight 120mm rockets, a 107mm rocket, a 105mm projectile, roughly eight pounds of homemade explosives, four canisters of an unknown liquid and a car battery with wires.
EOD personnel command detonated the cache.
There were no casualties.
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RELEASE No. 20080101-01
January 1, 2008
Coalition capture 3 extremists
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division - Baghdad troops arrested three suspected extremists after receiving a tip from a local citizen on their whereabouts in the Doura neighborhood in southeastern Baghdad Dec. 28.
Company C, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment “Warriors,” attached to Task Force Dragon, arrested the three suspects after informants identified them as having transported al-Qaeda snipers in and out of Doura, and allegedly being part of an improvised explosive device cell.
The suspected extremists were taken to a Coalition Forces’ detention facility for further questioning.
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