Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   
RELEASE No. 20070709-17
July 9, 2007

New Coalition Outpost opened in Ameriya
By Sgt. Jack Androski
1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD — Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers opened another Coalition outpost in the Ameriya neighborhood of western Baghdad. 

Ameriya has been the scene of some of the deadliest fighting in Baghdad due to the local Sunni-led Ameriya Freedom Fighters defending their neighborhoods from al-Qaeda insurgents.  The citizens of Ameriya, a former Ba’athist enclave, recently turned against al-Qaeda insurgents who were using Ameriya as a base of operations to attack coalition forces and bring violence against the Shia populace in Baghdad.   

With the construction of a new Coalition outpost, troops from 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, seek to gain better control over the Ameriya area and stop the violence.

1-5 Cav. has already successfully built two other COPs, one in Khadra and one northern Ameriya. With yet another COP the task force will aggressively target al-Qaeda within the area to help the local Sunnis population rid their neighborhoods of insurgents, and bring peace and prosperity back to this Sunni neighborhood.

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