Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070809-07
August 9, 2007

Iraqi, U.S. Special Forces detain 12 insurgents, kill two during three operations
 
Multi-National Corps – Iraq PAO

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Special Operations Forces, with U.S. Special Forces as advisers, detained five suspected rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi militia insurgents, Aug. 8 in the neighborhood of Mahmudiyah in Baghdad.
 
During the operation, ISOF and USSF came under enemy small-arms fire. With well-aimed fire, two insurgents were killed.

The primary individual detained in the operation is allegedly a rogue JAM leader suspected of trafficking weapons. The Shi’a extremist is the alleged leader of a death squad, whose members are known to conduct kidnapping, torture and execution of local Iraqi citizens. Iraqi Forces detained four other suspicious individuals present during the raid. Additionally, the rogue JAM extremists are suspected of emplacing explosively formed penetrators that target Coalition and Iraqi Forces.
 
In a second operation a rogue JAM militia cell commander was detained Aug. 8 in Karbala, a town on the southwestern outskirts of Baghdad.

The primary suspect is believed to have directed and overseen attacks on Coalition Forces using improvised explosive devices and explosively formed penetrators on multiple occasions. One other suspicious individual present during the operation was also detained.
 
During the final operation an alleged rogue JAM Death Squad leader and four members of his cell were detained in East Rashid, a district in Baghdad.

The Shi’a extremist leads a cell that conducts kidnapping of local citizens, displacement of residents from their homes, and extra judicial killings of Sunnis and Egyptians living in the Baghdad area.

No Iraqi or U.S. Forces were injured during these operations.

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