Friday, December 9
GRUNTS HAVE BUSY, SUCCESSFUL DAY IN NORTH CENTRAL IRAQ
Grunts nab 22 scuzballs, find and blow up 4 piles of guns n' ammo in 6 separate operations.
| December 9, 2005 TIKRIT, Iraq – Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops continued to make progress in the fight against terrorism in the north central region of Iraq. Raids and patrols throughout the area resulted in 22 suspected terrorists being detained and the discovery of four weapons caches. In an early morning raid near Ad Duluiyah, Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division captured seven suspected terrorists. The men were wanted for staging IED and mortar attacks against coalition forces in the area. Five suspects were detained in Mansuriyah Al Jabal, a village near the city of Muqdadiyah, by Iraqi troops from 2nd Bn., 2nd Bde., 5th Div., working with U.S. Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team. Five other suspects were taken into custody in a combined raid near Samarra by Iraqi troops from the Ministry of the Interior and Soldiers from the 3rd ID’s 1st BCT. The biggest cache of the day was discovered by a patrol from the 1st BCT west of Balad. More than 100 hand grenades, 45 pounds of gunpowder, two pounds of plastic explosives, a preassembled IED and various other items were destroyed by an Explosives Ordnance Disposal team. Three suspected terrorists were detained at the site. Two other caches in the same area yielded 23 mortar rounds, 300 artillery fuses, four blocks of plastic explosives, a mortar tube and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Both caches were destroyed by EOD teams. A fourth cache was discovered by Soldiers from 2nd Bn., 2nd Bde., 5th Iraqi Army Div. in the village of Haroniyah near Muqdadiyah. The cache contained nine mortar rounds that had been converted into IEDs and four RPG launchers. Two men were detained in connection with the weapons. |
