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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070723-05
July 23, 2007

Three Iraqis freed, their captors detained
Multi-National Division – North PAO

TIKRIT, Iraq – Soldiers from Company D, 3-8 Combined Arms Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, freed three Iraqi civilians from a house, south of Samarra, and detained four individuals responsible for kidnapping them, Saturday. 
 
The Soldiers observed individuals driving a black sedan kidnap two Iraqis from a bongo truck.  The Soldiers followed the sedan to a house several miles south. 
 
A total of three kidnapping victims – one of whom was already at the house where the second two were taken – were rescued, and treated for physical abuse by Coalition Forces’ medics at the scene. 
 
The four kidnappers were detained along with their weapons and ammunition. 

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