Good News From The War On Terror 5/11
VBIED networks disrupted; 4 terrorists killed, 9 suspects detained
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Four terrorists were killed and nine suspected terrorists detained during Coalition Forces raids Thursday and Friday targeting vehicle-borne improvised explosive device networks in Iraq.
Coalition Forces killed four terrorists and detained two suspected terrorists in an operation Friday morning near Taji that targeted a VBIED cell responsible for attacks on Iraqi civilians and Coalition Forces.
Coalition Forces targeted a building based on intelligence built on previous successful missions Apr. 14 and May 6. As they approached the objective, four armed men engaged the ground force with small arms fire. Coalition Forces, using appropriate self-defense measures in response to the hostile threat, returned fire, killing the armed men.
One of the individuals killed is a suspected VBIED cell leader and allegedly tied to al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leadership. The two detainees also have alleged ties to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Coalition Forces targeted an individual suspected of running a deadly VBIED cell in Baghdad during a raid Friday morning. The individual is also allegedly responsible for facilitating the movement and supply of foreign fighters, murders, and attacks against Coalition Forces.
Four suspected terrorists were detained Thursday afternoon in a Coalition Forces operation targeting a network that supplies materials used in the production of IEDs in Baghdad. Coalition Forces detained two suspected terrorists in separate raids Friday morning targeting a VBIED network in Mosul.
Wolverine Soldiers find cache near Radwaniyah
RADWANIYAH, Iraq — Coalition forces discovered a cache south of Radwaniyah, just west of Baghdad Thursday.
Soldiers of 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., working with soldiers of 3rd Brigade, 4th Battalion, 6th Iraqi Army Division found the cache during a combat patrol.
The cache contained four rocket-propelled grenade warheads, three mortar boosters, an RPG accelerator and two flares.
The cache was destroyed during a controlled detonation conducted by the explosive ordnance team.
Soldiers defeat assault on Iraqi National Police station
FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq – Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division thwarted a small arms and mortar attack on an Iraqi National Police Station near the town of Salman Pak May 9.
The attack began when several gunmen engaged the station with small arms and mortars.
Two 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment AH-64 attack helicopters responded to the call for help from Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry and Company E, 1st Battalion, 125th Infantry Regiment. Company E Soldiers, currently serving as an Iraqi police training team.
The AH-64’s engaged and destroyed one vehicle with 30mm cannon fire after identifying the occupants as hostile. The helicopters fired on three more gunmen as they fled through a palm groove, killing two.
The 1-15 Infantry Regiment is assigned to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, from Fort Benning, Ga., and the 1-227th Aviation is part of the 1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas. Company E, 1-125th Inf. is a Michigan National Guard unit.
Coalition interrupts terrorist training, terrorists killed
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces killed several terrorists and destroyed three trucks with mounted anti-aircraft weapons May 8 after discovering a pack of terrorists firing on a house northeast of Karmah.
Intelligence reports and surveillance of a known al-Qaeda in Iraq meeting location led Coalition Forces to three trucks, two of which carried mounted anti-aircraft artillery weapons. Coalition Forces followed the vehicles to an area where terrorists emerged from the vehicles and engaged two houses with heavy fire. The ground attack was assessed to be practice for possible future attacks against Coalition Forces.
Coalition Forces continued to follow the vehicles as they left the target practice location and waited until the armed vehicles were away from potential civilian casualties. A fixed-wing aircraft was called in to destroy the vehicles. One truck with an anti-aircraft weapon and two sedans associated with the trucks were destroyed, killing an estimated 10 to 14 terrorists.
The two remaining trucks departed the strike scene in different directions, but Coalition Forces continued to follow them. Each was destroyed in a separate air strike after the vehicle’s occupants abandoned it and fled the scene.
Coalition Forces followed an additional vehicle from the scene of the first strike and targeted the building it returned to in an overnight raid. Eight suspected terrorists were detained in the raid, and one was treated for shrapnel wounds he received from the air strike earlier in the evening.
The video can be seen on the MNF-I Web site at the following link:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/images/stories/FJI/2007/aakinkillmastersml.wmv
CF discover weapons cache, detain terrorist
MOSUL, Iraq — Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th
Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, arrested a terrorist after a vehicle
attacked Coalition Forces in Mosul, Iraq, Sunday.2-7 Cavalry Soldiers were conducting a route-clearance mission in the city
when occupants of a vehicle fired a rocket-propelled grenade followed by smallarms
fire at CF.CF identified and pursued the vehicle. Two occupants fled into
surrounding houses nearby. After searching the vehicle and the immediate
neighborhood, CF detained one individual matching the description of one of the
fleeing suspects. The Soldiers also confiscated four AK-47s, one RPG launcher,
19 AK-47 magazines and over 400 rounds of ammunition.
