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Press Release A080414a
April 14, 2008

One terrorist killed, 14 detained in operations targeting AQI leaders

BAGHDAD – Coalition forces killed one terrorist and detained 14 suspected terrorists while targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq’s senior leaders and criminal operations Sunday and Monday.

In eastern Baghdad Sunday, Coalition forces used information from an operation Feb. 7 to target a senior leader in the Baghdad AQI propaganda network.  When the ground force entered the building, one man drew a weapon.  Coalition forces responded to the hostile threat by engaging and killing the armed man.  One suspected terrorist was detained, and Coalition forces gathered information that led them to a second target in the area where they detained an additional suspect.

Coalition forces conducted two missions targeting the AQI bombing network Monday.  In a precision operation in Bayji, the ground force captured an alleged associate of the area’s bombing cell.  Farther south, Coalition forces detained two suspected terrorists in Tikrit, one of whom is allegedly linked to a senior terrorist leader in the Baghdad bombing network.

Three operations Monday targeted AQI senior leaders.  North of Taji, Coalition forces captured a suspected close associate of a senior terrorist leader.  Southwest of Tal Afar, Coalition forces captured a suspected AQI terrorist believed to be responsible for the group’s finances in the region and one additional suspect.  Two women were slightly injured when the ground force breached the door of the target building, but they were treated on site.  Four suspected terrorists were detained in Mosul during an operation targeting AQI senior leaders there.

West of Samarra Monday, Coalition forces detained two individuals allegedly involved in the AQI foreign terrorist facilitation network.

“We will not let up in our mission to dismantle al-Qaeda in Iraq,” said Cmdr. Scott Rye, MNF-I spokesman.  “Terrorists have no regard for the law, which the Iraqi people have embraced as a step toward peace.”

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