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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080307-09
March 7, 2008

SoI, MND-C Soldiers find, raid torture house

FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – Abna al-Iraq, or Sons of Iraq, led Coalition forces to an al-Qaeda in Iraq torture house and prison in northern Zambraniyah March 5.
 
The operation was based on intelligence provided by an SoI leader in the area.
 
“The guy wants to clean up the area,” said Capt. Chris O’Brian, 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. “AQI killed half his family.”
 
The Abna al-Iraq leader, who heads a group of 300 SoI, worked with his men in support of Soldiers on the patrol.
 
The patrol began early in the morning as Soldiers cleared houses in an area suspected of harboring insurgents. During the initial phase of the mission, the group came under small arms fire by the enemy, observed wearing black..
 
As the patrol continued, the group discovered a man dressed in black in a suspected AQI safe house. The man was detained on suspicion of involvement in insurgent activities and the likelihood that he was involved in the earlier attack.
 
Intelligence indicated there may be an AQI prison or torture house in the town. That intelligence led Soldiers to a house full of materials used by AQI for torture. They discovered hand cuffs, an electrocution system and hanging hooks used for humans. Twelve interrogation books written in Arabic were found along with several sets of female clothing. A bloody handprint was also present.
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