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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20051033.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
October 10, 2005
Release Number: 05-10-33
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIERS SUSTAIN OPERATION SARATOGA SECURITY OPERATIONS
TIKRIT, Iraq -- Task Force Liberty Soldiers, Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police across North Central Iraq completed more than 175 raids and security missions in their first week of Operation Saratoga. The joint operation led to the capture of nearly 750 suspected terrorists and the killing of 12 terrorists and wounding of eight others.
With the assistance of Iraqi civilian tips, more than 50 improvised explosive devices were discovered and neutralized on the roads of North Central Iraq. Weapons seizures included five mortar systems, more than 50 mortar rounds, 75 artillery rounds, nearly 70 rockets and 10 anti tank mines.
In one incident, Task Force Liberty Soldiers defeated a suicide vehicle borne IED attack on Oct. 6 near Samarra when a 1st Brigade Combat Team gunner identified and engaged a suicide attacker approaching his convoy from a nearby parking lot.The suicide bomber detonated his vehicle borne IED approximately 50 meters from the Task Force Liberty vehicle, killing an Iraqi child in the blast.
In Salah Ad Din Province, Task Force Liberty Soldiers conducted a raid to capture a known car bomb manufacturer on Oct. 4. Soldiers of the 278th Regimental Combat Team returned fire on a terror cell about two kilometers south of the village of Dalish. The unit engaged the terrorists, killing the car bomb maker and capturing an accomplice.
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For more information, please contact the 42ND Infantry Division Public Affairs Office 42 ID PAO at fortysecond.id.pao@us.army.MIL.
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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20051034.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
October 10, 2005
Release Number: 05-10-34
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TERROR SITE FOUND
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces acting on multiple intelligence sources raided a safe house suspected of harboring foreign terrorists on Oct 10.
During the raid, Coalition forces found four 120 mm rockets of a type often used to make improvised explosive devices and detained four individuals.
Coalition forces removed and destroyed the four rockets in a nearby open field.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT MULTI-NATIONAL CORPS-IRAQ,
BY E-MAIL AT MNCI-PAO-VICTORYMAINJOC@IRAQ.CENTCOM.MIL.
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