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RELEASE No. 20080518-10
May 18, 2008
CF kills 6 enemy personnel with air strikes
Multi-National Division – North PAO
TIKRIT, Iraq – Coalition forces killed six enemy personnel and destroyed a cache near Khan Bani Sa’ad with air strikes, May 17.
While attempting to disarm a discovered improvised explosive device, 5th Iraqi Army Division soldiers received small arms and rocket propelled grenade fire. The attack resulted in the death of an IA soldier.
Following the attack, Coalition forces observed four criminals with multiple weapons next to a house suspected of containing a weapons cache. Coalition forces used an Air Force jet to engage the building with precision guided munitions destroying the cache and killing the four enemy personnel.
A vehicle thought to have been involved in the complex attack was engaged by a Coalition force helicopter. The vehicular engagement resulted in five secondary explosions and the death of two suspects.
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RELEASE No. 20080518-12
May 18, 2008
MND-B Soldiers seize weapons cache, detain suspected
criminal (Baghdad)
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers uncovered a weapons cache and detained one suspected criminal in operations throughout Baghdad May 18.
At approximately 12:10 p.m., Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, were searching a power sub station in West Rashid when they found a weapons cache consisting of two AK-47 assault rifles, three AK-47 magazines, one Dragonov rifle, one PKC rifle, three improvised explosive devices, two initiators, 60 pounds of homemade explosives, other bomb making materials, and one 60 mm mortar with fuse.
At approximately 11:10 a.m., Soldiers with the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, currently attached to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Inf. Div., detained a criminal suspected of emplacing IEDs after Soldiers received a tip from a local citizen in northeastern Baghdad.
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