Sunday, October 23
U.S,IRAQI COPS, ARMY KICK SCUZBALL BUTT IN TIKRIT
| October 10, 2005 TIKRIT, Iraq -- Task Force Liberty Soldiers, Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police across North Central Iraq completed more than 175 raids and security missions in their first week of Operation Saratoga. The joint operation led to the capture of nearly 750 suspected terrorists and the killing of 12 terrorists and wounding of eight others. With the assistance of Iraqi civilian tips, more than 50 improvised explosive devices were discovered and neutralized on the roads of North Central Iraq. Weapons seizures included five mortar systems, more than 50 mortar rounds, 75 artillery rounds, nearly 70 rockets and 10 anti tank mines. In one incident, Task Force Liberty Soldiers defeated a suicide vehicle borne IED attack on Oct. 6 near Samarra when a 1st Brigade Combat Team gunner identified and engaged a suicide attacker approaching his convoy from a nearby parking lot.The suicide bomber detonated his vehicle borne IED approximately 50 meters from the Task Force Liberty vehicle, killing an Iraqi child in the blast. In Salah Ad Din Province, Task Force Liberty Soldiers conducted a raid to capture a known car bomb manufacturer on Oct. 4. Soldiers of the 278th Regimental Combat Team returned fire on a terror cell about two kilometers south of the village of Dalish. The unit engaged the terrorists, killing the car bomb maker and capturing an accomplice. Weblog LINK |
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