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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070317-03
March 17, 2007
MND-B Soldiers kill two insurgents before they can plant
roadside bomb
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
By 1st BCT, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Multi-National Division Baghdad Soldiers engaged and killed two
insurgents who were preparing to plant an improvised explosive device March 16 on a
road east of Mirad as Suki, Iraq.
Soldiers from Troop B, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment observed two men
loosening the road’s surface with gasoline. When they dispatched two M2A3 Bradley
Fighting Vehicles to investigate the activity, the insurgents fled the scene in a vehicle.
The insurgents later returned to the site to finish digging the hole. The 2nd Bn.,
5th Cav. Regt. troopers then engaged and killed the men from more than one kilometer
away with machine guns on the Bradleys.
No U.S. Soldiers were killed or wounded during the engagement.
-30- FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT MULTI-NATIONAL DIVISION – BAGHDAD
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER IN CHARGE, MAJOR STEVEN LAMB, AT
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) OR BY PHONE AT COMMERCIAL: (914) 822-8174,
OR IRAQNA: 011-964-790-192-4675.
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