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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070904-19
September 4, 2007

Iraqi Army, U.S. Special Forces detain extremist death-squad member
Multi-National Corps – Iraq PAO

BAGHDAD – Members of the 3/9th Iraqi Army Division, with U.S. Special Forces as advisers, detained an alleged extremist death squad member Sept. 3 in the Baghdad area.
The suspect is part of a notorious death squad in the Bub al Sha’am and Al Shaab areas in New Baghdad. The alleged is additionally responsible for kidnapping and torturing innocent civilians, as well as conducting extra judicial killings.
He is also part of a criminal network that specializes in the use of small arms fire attacks with machine guns and emplaces improvised explosive devices to maim, kill or disrupt Iraqi and Coalition Forces operating in the area.
During the mission, body armor, detonator switches, switch boards and various other suspicious objects used to harm or kill Iraqi and Coalition members were seized.
No Iraqi or U.S. forces were harmed during the intelligence-driven operations.

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