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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2006
Release No. 20060710-01

Iraqi Army captures entire insurgent cell

TIKRIT – Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division captured an entire insurgent cell during a series of raids Monday morning in Mosul.

Local civilians provided tips and other investigative resources were used to identify the houses of three possible terrorists. Once the IA troops entered and cleared the houses, four males were detained and questioned about their involvement in insurgent activities. The four men then pointed the Soldiers to whom they believed to be their cell leader at another location.

A secondary raid based on this information lead the Soldiers to another house and two more terrorists, one of whom was identified by several different sources as the cell leader and a terrorist.

A total of six males were detained, all of them members of an improvised explosive device and vehicle-borne IED making cell, possibly even members of an assassination cell.
Coalition Forces from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, provided overwatch and an outer cordon while the Iraqi Soldiers completed the mission with no injuries to ISF, CF or civilians.

The continued reporting of terrorists by Iraqi civilians throughout northern Iraq further solidifies their belief in the Iraqi Security Forces and a lack of tolerance by the population for anyone who commit acts of violence in Iraq.

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