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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080301-03
March 1, 2008

Coalition Forces detain suicide vest cell leader recruiting women
Multi-National Division – North PAO

DIYALA PROVINCE, Iraq – Coalition Forces detained the leader of a suspected suicide vest cell in Ghailibiyah, north of Khan Bani Sad, in an operation Feb. 28.

The ringleader was a man trying to recruit women to carry out SVEST bombings.

The cell leader used his wife and another woman, to act as carriers of his next SVEST attack. Coalition Forces stopped their plans. The CF questioned all the individuals found in his home during the operation.

“A high level of intelligence led to the successful operation. Another criminal and his SVEST cell was removed from Iraqi society today” said Maj. Daniel J. Meyers, a spokesman for Multi-National Division – North.

No one was injured during the operation.

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