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Press Release A080805a-271
August 5, 2008
Precision operation detains suspected Samarra AQI leader
BAGHDAD – Coalition forces captured four wanted men and detained 11 additional suspects during operations in central and northern Iraq Tuesday targeting al-Qaeda leaders and their liaisons.
Coalition forces conducted a precision operation and captured a wanted man near Samarra. The man is believed to oversee attacks in the area and reportedly replaced another AQI suspect who was detained during an operation Jul. 22.
Coalition forces captured two wanted men assessed to be part of the AQI network in Sharqat, south of Mosul. The two operations, in Mosul and farther south in Bayji, netted five additional suspected terrorists.
In Baghdad, Coalition forces captured a wanted man who was reportedly visiting Iraq before departing to conspire with his foreign terrorist facilitation contacts outside the country. He and one additional suspect were detained in a house that appeared to be set up as a transient location.
Coalition forces also targeted members of a car-bombing network in Baghdad and detained one suspected terrorist.
Information from an operation Jul. 31 helped Coalition forces target an AQI liaison in Mosul, where they detained four suspected terrorists.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080805-03
Aug. 5, 2008
IPs kill one Special Groups criminal, wound 2 others in self defense
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Police reported a drive-by shooting in the Sheikh Umar neighborhood, in the eastern Baghdad district of Rusafa at approximately 12:45 p.m. Aug. 4.
Three Special Groups criminals opened fire on the New Baghdad Police Station from a passing civilian sedan. The vehicle was engaged by the IPs with precision fire and flipped over, resulting in one SG criminal killed and two wounded.
The three SG criminals were taken to the Al Kindi Hospital.
“The Iraqi Police heroically defended themselves and the Iraqi people when they returned fire from Special Groups criminals,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesmen, MND-B and 4th Inf. Div. “They showed increased capability by remaining calm under fire, returning precision fire, and defeating an enemy attack.”
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