Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
RELEASE No. 20070727-08
July 27, 2007

Iraqi Army, U.S. Special Forces detain rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi cell leader

Multi-National Corps – Iraq PAO

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Army Soldiers, with U.S. Special Forces as advisors, detained a cell leader of the rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi militia near the southwest neighborhood of Bayaa in Baghdad, July 26.

The Iraqi Soldiers detained their primary suspect without incident during the early morning operation in Baghdad.

The primary suspect is believed to command a rogue JAM improvised explosive device cell that is allegedly responsible for attacks on Coalition Forces.  He is also alleged to have received financial support and explosively formed penetrators from Iran, which were distributed to other JAM cell members in the Bayaa and Aamel areas of Baghdad.

No Iraqi Soldiers or U.S. Special Forces Soldiers were injured during this operation.

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