Good News From The War On Terror
IMPROMPTU CLINIC HELPS SICK IRAQIS
AL NUR, Iraq - Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers took another stride toward earning the trust of the Iraqi people through humanitarian service March 29 here.
After Soldiers from B Battery, 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment arrived to secure the schoolhouse designated as the clinic's site, medics from 1-37 FA.; 115th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division; and 82nd Airborne Division assisted Iraq Army medics in providing more than 100 citizens care for basic medical problems.
Iraq Army Soldiers screened scores of patients, completing a worksheet that delineated patient's problems and blood pressure, before American medics and doctors provided a thorough diagnosis and care plan.
Medics said this clinic is just another way the U.S. Army is empowering Iraq's security forces and civilians to take responsibility for the care of the Iraqi people.
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO THE CITIZENS OF TAL'AFAR CONTINUES
TAL'AFAR, Iraq - Iraqi Security Forces and Tal Afar civic leaders continue to lead from the front in providing aid and humanitarian assistance to the citizens of Tal'Afar displaced by the terrorist bombing on March 27.
The Iraqi military coordinated and flew a critical airlift resupply mission, bringing supplies for distribution by Iraqi ground forces to the civilian population. The mission was unique in nature as it was executed by Iraqi military pilots and crew members.
Coalition civil affairs teams continued to provide assessments, making sure the aid provided was funneled through the Iraqi leaders to population most in need.
IRAQI FORCES CONDUCT RAID IN BAGHDAD
BAGHDAD - Iraqi police forces conducted an early-morning operation on April 1, in Al-Kut, capturing a suspect believed to be involved in insurgent activities.
With coalition advisers present for support, Iraqi forces raided a residence in the al-Shuada District of Al-Kut southeast of Baghdad and captured their primary target without incident.
Iraqi forces also detained one other suspicious individual who was present during the operation.
The primary target of this operation is alleged to be responsible for weapon smuggling and improvised explosive devices activities intended to kill Iraqi citizens, Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition Forces.
No Iraqi or coalition forces were injured during this operation.
IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, CAVALRY DISCOVER EXTREMIST TRAINING CAMP
ZAGANIYAH, Iraq – Iraqi Security Forces from the 5th Iraqi Army Division, working with Coalition Forces, discovered a terrorist training camp in Zaganiyah, Iraq, while conducting clearing operations in the Diyala River Valley palm groves Thursday.
Soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 5th IA and Company B, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, discovered a fortified underground bunker with three exit points, four prepared fighting positions and a training camp building.
While clearing the area, the Soldiers unearthed five weapons caches consisting of more than 100 rocket-propelled grenade rounds, more than five RPG launchers, approximately 70 mortar rounds, bomb-making materials, home made explosives and terrorist planning and training materials.
IRAQI POLICE GRADUATES KEY TO THE FUTURE
BAGHDAD - Recruits of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Brigade, 2nd Division Iraqi National Police graduated from training at Forward Operating Base Falcon March 28, the first group of "shurta," Arabic for police, to come onto a U.S. forward operating base and receive complete, 24-hour-a-day training by a National Police Training Team.
PHONE TIP LEADS COALITION FORCES TO RESCUE KIDNAPPED VICTIMS
BAGHDAD - Coalition forces rescued two male Iraqi citizens who were kidnapped at a checkpoint March 31. The two men were traveling on a motor scooter when they were stopped by two men dressed as Iraqi Army soldiers, who detained them and made a cell phone call.
A short time later, eight men, suspected of being militia members, showed up at the checkpoint. They beat the two men while the alleged Iraqi Army troops watched. The two victims where then shoved into vehicles and taken to a house where the beatings continued.
A phone tip to a hotline run by 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne infantry Regiment, spurred a series of events that eventually led to the rescue of the two men. The tip led coalition troops to the vicinity of the house where an immediate house-to-house search began.
The two kidnapped men were found in what appeared to be a torture house, still bound and badly beaten. The victims were taken by coalition forces to a nearby base and given immediate medical treatment.
