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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49507
Aircrews Kill Attackers, Destroy Mortar Launching Site in Baghdad
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2008 – An Army Apache helicopter and an Air Force F-16 took out a mortar-launching team and their launch site yesterday after an observation team saw them emplacing mortars in the New Baghdad district, military officials reported.
A joint security station reported a mortar attack near its location in the New Baghdad district. After a second 82 mm round exploded near the station, an aerial surveillance team pinpointed the two mortars’ point of origin.
Iraqi security forces called in a U.S. Army Apache air weapons team that killed the mortar crew with a Hellfire missile. An F-16 then dropped a low-yield bomb on the mortar site.
Also yesterday, an Apache team destroyed a storage site for rails used to launch rocket attacks. Forces observed insurgents recovering rails after a rocket attack. An aerial weapons team was called in for support. The crew destroyed the structure and the rails with a Hellfire missile.
In other news in Iraq, coalition forces seized a weapons cache yesterday in eastern Baghdad. Soldiers found a small cache of armor-piercing explosively formed penetrators while patrolling. The cache was recovered.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18293&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080409-02
April 9, 2008
Baqubah Special Weapons and Tactics unit detains six suspected AQI fighters
Multi-National Corps – Iraq PAO
BALAD, Iraq – The Baqubah Special Weapons and Tactics unit, advised by U.S. Special Forces, detained six suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters in an operation in Baqubah’s Shil’bah village April 8.
Baqubah SWAT conducted an operation to rid the village of AQI fighters.
The AQI had been using the area as a base for improvised explosive device and small-arms fire attacks against Iraqi Security and Coalition forces. The AQI fighters are also reported to use the village as a rest area, a prison and a meeting place for AQI leaders.
During the operation, six AQI terrorists were detained by Baqubah SWAT for transportation to a detention facility.
“Iraqi Security and Coalition forces remain relentless in the pursuit of these al-Qaeda terrorists,” said Col. Bill Buckner, spokesman for Multi-National Corps - Iraq. “We will continue to hunt down terrorists who put the Iraqi people in danger by hiding among civilians.”
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