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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080330-04
March 30, 2008

MND-B Soldiers kill 11 in Baghdad

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers engaged and killed 11 criminals in separate engagements in Baghdad March 29.

An MND-B aerial weapons team killed a criminal after a ground patrol was attacked by SAF in eastern Baghdad at approximately noon.

In another incident, Soldiers from 2nd BCT, 101st Airborne Division, killed a criminal fighter after the patrol observed the combatant emplacing a mortar tube in northwestern Baghdad at approximately noon.

At approximately 1:30 p.m., Soldiers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, killed a criminal after the patrol was struck by an improvised explosive device and small-arms fire in eastern Baghdad.

MND-B Soldiers from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, killed six criminals after their patrol was attacked by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in eastern Baghdad at approximately 4 p.m.

In an earlier event Soldiers from 4th BCT, 10th Mtn., Div., killed two criminals in eastern Baghdad after their patrol was attacked by small-arms fire at approximately 3:30 pm.

“Along with our Iraqi Security Force partners, we are targeting individual 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 criminal activity.”

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