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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  
RELEASE No. 20080325-07
March 25, 2008

11 detained after mortar attack on FOB Falcon

2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div. PAO Multi-National Division – Center PAO

FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – Eleven suspected criminals were detained by Coalition and Iraqi Army forces March 21, four kilometers south of Forward Operating Base Falcon.

Those detained are suspected to be a part of a criminal cell responsible for a mortar attack directed at FOB Falcon earlier in the day.

Pilots from the Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division provided air support to soldiers on the ground after the attack and witnessed a truck, believed to be carrying the mortar team, moving from the probable point of origin to a section of houses about a half-kilometer to the west.

Coalition and Iraqi security forces searched 14 houses in the area, resulting in the detention of 11 suspected criminals. 

“Those who choose to defy the ceasefire pledge of al-Sayyid Moqtada al-Sadr are nothing more than criminals,” said Lt. Col. Neil Harper, MNC-I spokesman. “We will continue to pursue such criminals vigorously and bring them to justice.”

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