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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071006-01
October 6, 2007

Iraqi Special Operations Forces, U.S. Special Forces detain extremist company commander
Multi-National Corps – Iraq PAO

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Special Operations Forces, advised by U.S. Special Forces, detained a suspected extremist company commander Oct. 5 in Al-Khalis.

The extremist commander and his group are allegedly responsible for sectarian violence against Sunni citizens to include a 20-man attack on a Sunni-inhabited region known as Arab Danan, Jul. 7 and 8.  The group allegedly removed all Sunni citizens, then burned and destroyed their homes and farms.

Additionally, the company commander and three other men are suspected of ambushing a Sunni citizen driving a van Jul. 2.  It is alleged that the commander shot and killed the driver and then his group threw the man in the Tigris River.

The assault force confiscated a medium-sized machine gun with 300 rounds, two AK-47 assault rifles with two magazines and one homemade zip-gun during a raid. 

One other suspicious individual was detained.

No U.S. or Iraqi members were harmed in this raid.

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