Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070726-06
July 26, 2007

Iraqi Security Forces, U.S. Special Forces detain rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi leader
Multi-National Corps – Iraq PAO

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces, with U.S. Special Forces as advisors, detained a cell leader of a rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi militia July 25 in southwestern Baghdad.
 
The Iraqi Forces detained their primary suspect without incident and captured four other suspicious individuals who were present during the operation.
 
The primary suspect is believed to command a rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi cell that is allegedly responsible for the death squad killings of more than 150 Sunni Arab Iraqis.
 
The detainees are being held for questioning.  No Iraqi or Coalition Forces were injured in the operation.

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