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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070428-14
April 28, 2007
Commandos, Baghdad Eagles detain suspected extremists, find caches and IEDs
Multi-National Division – Center PAO
BAGHDAD – Coalition and Iraqi Forces detained extremists, found weapons
caches and improvised explosive devices south of Baghdad Thursday.
Soldiers of 4th Brigade “Baghdad Eagles,” 6th Iraqi Army Division and 2nd
Brigade Combat Team “Commandos,” 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) of
Fort Drum, N.Y., detained the suspected extremists and found the caches during
routine combat operations.
U.S. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, detained two
suspected extremists after discovering a weapons cache in the vicinity of the
detainees’ house southwest of Radwaniyah.
In the cache was a bayonet, four bandoleers, two cases of 7.62mm ammunition and 26 AK-47 magazines, while soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 4-6 IRaqi Amy discovered a cache consisting of two Katyusha rockets in Mahmudiyah.
Three improvised explosive devices were discovered; two were found by Soldiers of 4-4-6 Iraqi Army near Yusufiyah. The other IED was found by Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd BCT.
The detainees are being held for further questioning.
The contents of the cache were destroyed during a controlled detonation conducted by the explosive ordnance disposal team.
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