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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....

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 January 11, 2004Release Number: 04-01-22 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TF “ALL-AMERICAN” UNCOVERS CACHE WITH LOCAL HELP RAMADI, Iraq – Task Force “All-American” soldiers discovered a large weapons cache with the help of a local Iraqi civilian at approximately 9 p.m. Jan. 9. The man led them to a house in Ramadi where the following were found: 33 anti-tank and 16 anti-personnel RPG rounds, three RPG launchers, one crate of RPG propellant, 13 hand grenades, 40 fuses, a large quantity of small...

Jan 11, 6:57 AM ESTIraqi Arrested in U.S. Soldier's Shooting TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. troops arrested a Saddam Hussein loyalist early Sunday suspected in last month's shooting of an American soldier who was saved by his flak jacket, the Army said.Acting on a neighbor's tip, soldiers arrested the man in a raid on his home in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, said Lt. Col. Steve Russell, commander of the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment of the Army's 4th Infantry Division.The soldier allegedly shot by the Iraqi, Sgt. Jeffrey Allen of Leitchfield, Ky., made the arrest, Russell said. Russell described the...

<p>TIKRIT, Iraq  — U.S. troops arrested a Saddam Hussein (search) loyalist early Sunday suspected in last month's shooting of an American soldier who was saved by his flak jacket, the Army said.</p> <p>Acting on a neighbor's tip, soldiers arrested the man in a raid on his home in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit (search), said Lt. Col. Steve Russell, commander of the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment of the Army's 4th Infantry Division.</p>

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — With the nation on high terror alert, the FBI is asking New Jersey Muslims to report any suspicious activity, including threats against themselves or mosques or schools, as well as potential terrorist activity. Continuing a series of outreach efforts it intensified after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the FBI in New Jersey contacted Muslim community leaders in northern New Jersey earlier this week and asked for help in tracking and preventing bias crimes, as well as potential terrorism. At least six of the Sept. 11 hijackers either lived or spent time in the Paterson area...

Hamburg (dpa) - Police cordoned off a German military hospital Tuesday after intelligence that radical Islamists plotted to set off a car bomb outside the clinic, where U.S. wounded are being treated.Item ends.

TIKRIT, Iraq, Dec. 29, 2003 — An Iraqi citizen provided information to U.S. Air Force airmen concerning a large weapons cache that he said consisted of close to 600 rockets, according to U.S. Central Command officials. The Air Force in turn asked the U.S. Army for assistance. Air Force personnel and a patrol from 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment went to the identified site in the evening of Dec. 27 to investigate. Officials said the intelligence acquired suggested the rockets could be found hidden in some undergrowth along the river next to a tree line. After a short search, the...

NEAR DULUIYAH, Iraq - The Stryker brigade made its biggest weapons seizure yet after an informant led troops to a cache east of Samarra, officials said Wednesday. They also raided a Tigris River waterfront compound thought to be a center for recruiting guerrillas to fight U.S. forces and the Iraqi interim government. Saddam Hussein was reportedly carrying documents linking him to this organization at the time of his capture earlier this month. The actions came as the Fort Lewis-based brigade completed the first week of Operation Arrowhead Blizzard, a joint effort with the 4th Infantry Division to put down the...

<p>Dragon Base, Iraq — Outside the barbed-wire fence of this remote, sand-swept U.S. military base along the Syrian border, Jassem Hussin, 14, gestured and muttered softly in Arabic. His father was a key figure in a guerrilla cell that was killing American soldiers, he said. Jassem wanted him arrested. The GI on guard duty radioed his superiors.</p>

U.S. says trusted lieutenant gave up fugitive's location under interrogation TIKRIT, Iraq The most wanted man in Iraq last week, besides Saddam Hussein, was not on anyone's Top 55 or even Top 200 fugitive list. He was a balding, paunchy middle-aged veteran of Saddam's feared internal security services who was a notorious womanizer and belonged to one of five close-knit families in this region that supplied the former ruler's most trusted lieutenants. But most important to American forces, he knew Saddam's whereabouts at any given moment. And last Saturday night, after his sudden capture and four hours of interrogation, he...

No reward for the man who gave up Saddam December 20 2003 at 09:57AM Baghdad - One of Saddam Hussein's top aides turned him over to American forces, according to fresh details on the former Iraqi leader's capture, as the United States administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, said he had escaped an assassination bid earlier this month. "He was someone I would call his right arm," said Major Stan Murphy, the head of intelligence for the 4th Infantry Division's First Brigade in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit said on Friday of the man who led to Saddam's capture at a hideout...

Italian newspaper La Padonia: Iran sold Saddam to the U.S. Free Iran at ActivistChat.com! Please contact all media and demand that they cover the Iranian struggle for freedom Iran sold Saddam to the Americans, claimed Italian newspaper La Padonia. It says Saddam had secretly contacted Iran to arrange for his asylum there, but Iranian secret police with the help of Iraqi governing council member Jalal Talabani turned him over to the US forces, the paper added. (Ahmad Ra'fat, Rome)

Documents Found With Saddam Point to Regime Network By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 16, 2003 – Intelligence from the capture of Saddam Hussein already is making Baghdad a safer place. Army Brig. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, commander of the 1st Armored Division here, said documents found with Saddam have allowed his forces to attack cells of former regime figures and make significant inroads against the financial network supporting the groups. "What the capture of Saddam Hussein revealed is the structure that existed above the local cellular structure – call it a network," Dempsey said during...

TIKRIT, Iraq - After raiding two farmhouses, the soldiers had found no sign of Saddam Hussein. Under a moonless sky on Saturday night, they began combing the palm groves and orange orchards, then moved on to the open, furrowed fields.   Once again, it was beginning to look as if Iraq´s most wanted man had eluded them. An informant, a confidant of Hussein whom they had brought along on the operation, had led them to that farm on the Tigris River. Now he pointed them to the very spot where Hussein was hiding in an underground chamber, according to soldiers...

<p>A soldier from the 4th Infantry Division guards $750,000 seized during the arrest of Saddam outside his hometown of Tikrit.</p> <p>The end for the dictator who fought two wars with the United States and bedeviled three presidents began with interrogations of low-level aides and family members — cousins, drivers, bodyguards, secretaries and other insiders who might know his whereabouts.</p>

Well-informed Lebanese sources said today that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's second wife supplied the US with "some information" about where her husband was hiding in Iraq. Samira Shahbandar, who lives with the ousted Iraqi leader's only surviving son Ali, "is believed to have given the Americans and their allies some information about the area where Saddam was hiding in," the sources said. Saddam was captured based on information from a member of a family "close to him", Major General Raymond Odierno said. Odierno, the commander of the 4th Infantry Division that captured Saddam, said that over the last 10...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — Saddam Hussein was captured based on information from a member of a family "close to him," Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno said Sunday. Odierno, the commander of the 4th Infantry Division that captured Saddam, said over the last 10 days soldiers have questioned "five to 10 members" of families "close to Saddam." "Finally we got the ultimate information from one of these individuals," he said. About 600 soldiers under his command conducted the raid Saturday night in a farm near the village of Adwar, finding Saddam in a hole covered by Styrofoam and a carpet beside a...

Iraqi Cooperation Makes Precise Strikes Possible, Sanchez Says By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2003 – Thanks to Iraqi cooperation, coalition forces are making precise offensive strikes to capture or kill former regime forces and anti-coalition fighters, the military commander in the country said today. Speaking in Baghdad, Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of Combined Joint Task Force 7, said the coalition is receiving "actionable" intelligence from the Iraqi people, and that is making for success for the coalition. In the west of the country, Iraqi police and soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division captured...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894   December 11, 2003Release Number: 03-12-26 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LOCAL TIPS SUCCESSFUL FOR TASK FORCE “ALL AMERICAN” AR RAMADI, Iraq – The 82nd Airborne Division and attached units, also known as Task Force “All American,” continued operations within the Al Anbar Province to provide security and assistance to the Iraqi people. During the past 24 hours, the Task Force has conducted 25 offensive operations, six cordon and searches and 19 raids. Soldiers also conducted 178 patrols, including seven joint patrols...

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces have arrested three men suspected of heading Iraqi rebel cells in their homes and say they seized a cache of weapons big enough to launch 50 guerrilla attacks. In the front garden of one of the two houses raided in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit in the early hours of Thursday, soldiers dug up a hoard of rifles, grenades and explosives that the commanding officer described as "a Fedayeen candy shop". "This is mission-oriented. This is stuff they dole out," said Lieutenant Colonel Steve Russell of the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division. "They are...