Multi-National Corps – Iraq

Press Release

Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory

APO AE 09342
                       

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RELEASE No. 20060817-03

August 17, 2006

IA soldiers rescue 3 kidnapped policemen after terrorist attack

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Soldiers from 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, rescued three kidnapped Iraqi policemen Wednesday during a small-arms engagement with terrorists in a rural area outside of Babil province.

            The freed Iraqi policemen reported being kidnapped from another checkpoint only minutes away from where the gunfight took place. 

The IA soldiers discovered the kidnap victims after they were attacked by small-arms fire from four vehicles passing by their checkpoint. They returned fire, capturing two of the vehicles. 

Soldiers examined the vehicles and found three police officers in the trunks, along with an AK-47 assault rifle and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

            The kidnap victims indicated two more officers were being held in the vehicles that fled. 

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