Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20240&Itemid=128
Press Release A080610a-208
June 10, 2008
Baghdad’s AQI leaders under pressure; three wanted men captured
BAGHDAD – Coalition forces captured three wanted men and two of their associates in Baghdad Monday.
Using information from an operation May 27, Coalition forces captured two wanted men, one of whom is allegedly a leader in an al-Qaeda in Iraq group. The two men, captured with two associates, allegedly belong to an AQI group with roots in Anbar province, but currently operating in the northern belt around Baghdad. The men are suspected to have ties with AQI leaders in the capital.
Also in Baghdad, Coalition forces captured an alleged AQI leader with long-standing ties to various terrorist networks, including AQI’s bombing network and other terrorist leaders. During the operation, a man ignored several warnings and approached the security perimeter. After repeated warnings to halt his advance, including warning shots, Coalition forces perceived a hostile threat and engaged the man, killing him.
“The Iraqi people have grown weary of terrorists and criminals,” said Lt. Patrick Evans, MNF-I spokesperson. “They have increasingly begun to partner with Iraqi and Coalition forces to capture and disrupt terrorist and criminal networks.”
-30-
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20267&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080610-11
June 10, 2008
ISF, MND-B Soldiers seize weapons throughout
Baghdad
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized multiple weapons caches throughout Baghdad June 9-10.
At approximately midnight June 9, Iraqi Army soldiers with the 22nd Brigade, 6th IA Division, discovered a cache in the Kadamiya district of Baghdad based off the tip of an area citizen.
The cache consisted of a light anti-armor weapon rocket, communication devices, two sets of body armor, four PKC barrels, communication wire, a rocket propelled grenade anti-personnel warhead, small-arms ammunition, five boxes of 5.56 mm rounds and various grenades.
They also confiscated three vehicles and one moped. Extra fuel tanks had been welded into the beds of two of the trucks they confiscated. Iraqi National Policemen and MND-B Soldiers with the 8th Brigade, 2nd Division National Police Transition Team found two improvised explosive devices in the New Baghdad district of Baghdad at approximately 6:30 a.m. June 10. One of the IEDs consisted of a 130 mm artillery round, and the other, a 107 mm artillery round.
The team also seized a large number of weapons during their morning mission, including 62 AK-47s, six sniper rifles, four 9 mm pistols, 12 full AK-47 magazines, four full 9 mm magazines and a machete.
At approximately 8:30 a.m., IA soldiers with the 3rd Bde., 1st Div., seized
five AK-47s in the Sadr City district of Baghdad.
MND-B Soldiers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, MND-B, discovered a weapons cache at approximately 9 a.m. The munitions included a 60 mm mortar system, a 107 mm rocket, two blocks of C4 explosive, 12 sticks of the plastic explosive PE-4, five rocket propelled grenades, detonation cord and blasting caps.
At approximately 10 a.m., an Iraqi citizen turned over two 120 highexplosive mortar rounds, two HE pineapple grenades and a possible explosively formed projectile tube to MND-B soldiers with the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, at a nearby camp.
Soldiers with the 2nd SBCT, 25th Inf. Div., MND-B, found a weapons cache northwest of Baghdad at approximately 10:15 a.m. consisting of 20, 7.62 mm sniper rounds; a camouflage net, magazines for 7.62 mm rounds, a sight for an RPG, a set of bipod legs and a decoy RPG.
At approximately noon, soldiers with the 3rd Bde., 1st IA Div., seized a weapons cache in Sadr City. The cache consisted of seven AK-47s, a Berno rifle and an RPK machine gun.
“Throughout the city, Baghdad residents are coming forward in increasing numbers, providing tips and information on weapons and munitions caches and extremist activity,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman for MND-B and 4th Inf. Div. “They are tired of the violence and foresee a brighter future through their actions.”
-30-