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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   
RELEASE No. 20080328-10
March 28, 2008

MND-B Soldiers kill 13 terrorists
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers engaged and killed 13 terrorists in separate engagements in Baghdad March 28.

At approximately 4 a.m., terrorists attacked Soldiers from the 237th Engineer Battalion using small-arms fire in eastern Baghdad. An air weapons team responded. The AWT engaged the enemy forces and killed four terrorists.

At approximately 7 a.m., Soldiers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, positively identified men in a vehicle armed with rocket-propelled grenades in Adhamiyah a district in northeast Baghdad. An air weapons team identified the vehicle. The AWT destroyed the vehicle, killing two terrorists.

At approximately 10 a.m., a 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division M1126 Stryker vehicle struck an improvised-explosive device in northeast Baghdad. Soldiers observed the terrorist’s spotter. He was killed in an exchange of fire. No MND-B Soldiers were injured in the attack.

At approximately 10:30 a.m., a terrorist attacked Iraqi Security and Coalition forces with small-arms fire in Kadamiyah, a district in northwest Baghdad.

Soldiers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, returned fire and killed the attacker. One Soldier suffered minor wounds in the attack.

Soldiers from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, killed five terrorists after an attack on their patrol by a rocket-propelled grenade at approximately noon in New Baghdad, a district in eastern Baghdad.

“Along with our Iraqi Security Forces partners, we are targeting individual terrorists, extremists, criminal networks and anyone involved in violent crimes against the Iraqi people,” said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff, MND-B. “We will continue to conduct precision operations based on substantial evidence of terrorist or criminal activity.”
 
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