Friday, January 30, 2009

Iraqi, U.S. Soldiers Detain Suspects, Find Weapons

American Forces Press Service

Jan. 30, 2009 - Iraqi security forces, aided by their U.S. partners, detained suspected criminals, seized illegal weapons and found and destroyed a "sticky bomb" in Jan. 28 operations, military officials reported. Iraqi National Police officers on a combined operation with Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers detained a suspected criminal in the Jihad community of Baghdad's Rashid district. The combined patrol transported the detainee, who was wanted for alleged car-bomb activity, to a joint security station for processing.

Meanwhile, another combined patrol captured a bomb-building suspect in the Zubaida community.

In another operation, Iraqi security forces acted on information provided by a detainee who had knowledge of recent attacks to arrest two suspects believed to have conducted hand-grenade attacks on civilians resettling in northern Baghdad's Ghazaliyah neighborhood.

In Baghdad's Rashid district, Iraqi security forces and Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers seized weapons and found a bomb and unexploded ordnance in various operations:

-- Police and U.S. soldiers found a magnetic "sticky bomb" in the district's Jazeera community and called in an Iraqi explosive ordnance disposal team to dispose of it.

-- Forces confiscated 15 AK-47 assault rifles in the Saydiyah community.

-- Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers found a bomb made of a 2.75 inch rocket and a 60 mm mortar round in the Masafee community.

-- In the Abu Tshir community, a combined patrol found a rocket-propelled grenade round that had been fired but hadn't exploded.

-- Iraqi and U.S. soldiers found an 81 mm white-phosphorus mortar in the Arab Jabour community. A coalition EOD team secured it.

(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am willing to bet that ever since the U.S. led invasion into Iraq and Afghanistan, that these Iraqi and Afgan people had never dreamed it possible that one day THEY would be clearing the way for their own freedoms and liberties.

This is all tell-tale by the growing list of active Iraqi units moving in and creating these long lists of weapons finds, EOD disposals and other clear and present dangers to their countrymen.

CONGRATS to you ALL and Semper Fidelis!