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APO AE 09342
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080329-01
March 29, 2008
MND-B Soldiers seize munitions, kill terrorist in firefight
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized a small cache and killed a Special Groups criminal in an operation in the New Baghdad district March 28.
Soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) first discovered a cache including explosively formed penetrators. They were then attacked by terrorists using small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.
Soldiers from the 4th Brigade, 1st National Police Division National Police Transition Team engaged the criminals. Initial reports indicate one criminal was killed and two more were wounded.
No MND-B Soldiers were injured during the encounter.
“These criminal elements who insist on ignoring al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr’s ceasefire pledge are certainly not working in the best interest of Iraqis,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, MND-B spokesman. “We will continue our efforts to bring these criminals to justice.”
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APO AE 09342
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080329-02
March 29, 2008
“MND-B Soldiers destroy rocket site, kill 12 terrorists”
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD
OPINION: Well now, this sure sounds like a no-no Al-Sadr.
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Radical Shiite cleric al-Sadr says Arabs meeting in Syria must support resistance
Published: 03.29.08, 12:15 / Israel News
Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on Arab leaders meeting in Syria to voice their support for Iraq’s “resistance” To what he calls foreign occupation.
Al-Jazeera television has shown a brief clip of an interview with the Mahdi Army militia leader. The broadcast is the first word from the reclusive Iraqi cleric since Iraq’s government launched a crackdown against Shiite militia violence in the southern oil port of Basra earlier this week. (AP)