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CJTF-7 Public AffairsBAGHDAD, IraqRelease #040111bTF 1st AD soldiers encourage reporting of enemy BAGHDAD, Iraq – The 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment (AIR), attached to 1st Armored Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), conducted Operation Recruiter, a battalion-sized operation, in Baghdad’s Al Adil neighborhood Dec. 13 to encourage residents to offer information about enemy activity. Operation Recruiter was part of Task Force 1st Armored Division’s Operation Iron Justice. Al Adil was selected for the operation because of a recent spate of attacks on neighborhood advisory council members and translators in the area, said Lt. Col. Eric Nantz, 1-325 AIR commander....

<p>Saddam Hussein's capture 11 days ago is still paying dividends, the nation's highest-ranking military officer said yesterday, with informants readily offering the names of Iraqis leading the insurgency.</p> <p>"It's enabled us to pick up lots of former regime elements," said Gen. Richard B. Myers, Joint Chiefs chairman, who appeared with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld at a Pentagon press conference. "Just yesterday, we picked up 50. Twenty-nine were actually targeted, [were] individuals we wanted. We went after them. Got them. That's just one day. So we've been pretty successful at that."</p>

A barrage of explosions interspersed with loud automatic fire echoed across Baghdad as an airplane circled overhead in what the military said could be part of an ongoing operation. It was the most intense military activity in the capital for weeks. The explosions, louder than mortars, began about 12:30 am (2130 GMT) and continued intermittently for about 20 minutes, sometimes interspersed with bursts of automatic fire. The activity may be related to an operation known as Iron Justice and "may involve explosions and aerial activity," a military spokeswoman said. There was intense activity, too, in Iraq's northern capital of Mosul...

Blasts in Baghdad as US troops hunt rebels The US military said is conducting an anti-rebel operation in Baghdad called Iron Justice. American commanders said they had planned operations over the Christmas period after receiving intelligence that there might be rebel attacks. Since the capture of Saddam Hussein on December 13, the 1st Armoured Division has conducted raids on cells in Baghdad. Asked about the repeated explosions heard around the city, a military spokeswoman said that operations were under way, including "aerial activity and artillery".Story filed: 22:09 Tuesday 23rd December 2003

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Soldiers of Task Force 1st Armored Division’s 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne captured 28 fuel trucks and nine propane trucks illegally dispensing fuel as part of black market activity in a south Baghdad neighborhood at about 10 p.m. Dec. 18. Soldiers also detained 20 black marketers. The arrests were part of Operation IRON JUSTICE. The operation is intended to combat corruption both to improve quality of life for the Iraqi populace and to deny former regime elements illegal sources of income.

<p>BAGHDAD — U.S. forces soon will begin the active phase of an onslaught against black marketeers who are suspected of using their illegal operations to fund the anticoalition insurgency and terrorist attacks in the capital.</p> <p>Code-named "Operation Iron Justice," the campaign directed by Gen. Martin E. Dempsey aims to root out rings of drug smugglers, traffickers in women and sophisticated forgers of high-value bank notes, U.S. military sources said in interviews.</p>

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894   December 7, 2003Release Number: 03-12-15 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “BULLDOG” BRIGADE DETAINS 43, CAPTURES WEAPONS CACHES BAGHDAD, IRAQ – Soldiers from Task Force 1st Armored Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team struck at insurgent elements in the Al Mansor district on the west side of the city Thursday. The operation, part of Task Force 1st Armored Division’s Operation “Iron Justice,” included 3rd Brigade units, attack helicopters, military police elements, and 300 Iraqi Civil Defense Corps guardsmen. More than 1,200 apartments in...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The Iraqi insurgency in Baghdad appears to have a central leadership that finances attacks in the capital and gives broad orders to eight to 12 rebel bands - some with as many as 100 guerrillas, U.S. Army generals said Monday. Decisions on individual attacks against U.S. occupation forces in the capital, however, are left up to the men who carry them out, said Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey. There is still no sign of a military-style command structure in the city or in Iraq as a whole, Dempsey told a group of reporters in an unusually detailed...