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Press Release A080816a-086
August 16, 2008
Special Groups suspect captured with help from own family (Al Kut)
BAGHDAD – With the help from his family, Coalition forces captured a key suspected Special Groups assistant during operations Saturday morning in Al Kut, about 170 km southeast of Baghdad in Wasit Province.
Based on intelligence information, Coalition forces approached a building in Al Kut, where they found the targeted individual’s brother. The brother led forces to a nearby house where they detained the wanted man without incident.
The captured suspect is believed to be one of the key assistants for the overall Special Groups leader in the Al Kut region. His capture will likely lead to further degradation of the Iranian-backed Special Groups interests in Iraq, which have not recovered since Iraqi security forces removed their safe-havens throughout the country.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080816-06
Aug. 16, 2008
Suspected terrorist leader detained in al Hillah
Multi-National Division – Center PAO
FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – Iraqi Security Forces detained a suspected terrorist cell leader during an early-morning raid in al Hillah Aug. 13.
The operation resulted from intelligence developed by al Hillah Special Weapons and Tactics Team and Coalition forces, and was carried out with assistance from the local Iraqi Police.
The suspected terrorist is believed to be a supplier of weapons to special groups. With his capture, ISF aimed to disrupt the flow of weapons to special groups in the area.
This was the first time the Hillah SWAT conducted a mission in cooperation with the IP, according to Capt. Hasam, the assistant battalion commander for Hillah SWAT.
“We planned and conducted a successful operation,” Hasam said. “Detention of this individual has limited special group members’ access to the munitions from a weapons cache that was controlled by him and prevents future attacks that potentially result in the deaths of civilians.”
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