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Friday, May 18, 2007

Good News From The War On Terror 5/18

COALITION FORCES DISCOVER EFP CACHE, TIP LEADS TO SECOND EFP CACHE SITE

BAGHDAD - Coalition Forces found two explosively-formed projectile improvised explosive device cache sites in a northwestern Baghdad neighborhood May 15.

Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 325th Air Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, found one cache site which had a completely assembled EFP, a Dragonov rifle with scope and a Kevlar helmet. While investigating the site, a tip from an Iraqi citizen led the Coalition Forces to a second cache site.

At the second site, Soldiers discovered nine copper plates with tubes, a key component of the EFP, with rolls of wire, cells phones and other miscellaneous improvised explosive device-making materials.

Also at the second location were 150 rocket-propelled grenade propellants, several homemade explosives, three anti-tank mines, two flash initiators, an anti-personnel mine, a sub-machine gun, rifle scope and a gas mask.

 

IRAQI ARMY, EOD PREVENT CAR BOMB TRAGEDY IN BAYAA

BAGHDAD - Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division, and an Iraqi Army explosive ordnance disposal team stopped extremists from detonating a car bomb in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Bayaa May 16.

Acting on a report about a suspicious vehicle, Iraqi troops cordoned off the area and took precautions to secure residents before calling in EOD for support.

Working alongside Multi-National Division - Baghdad troops from 1st "Black Lions" Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, the Iraqis identified the explosive and diffused the bomb before it could be used in an attack.

 

SIX SECRET CELL TERRORISTS DETAINED

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces detained six suspected terrorists Friday morning during raids in northeast Baghdad.

The individuals targeted during the raids are suspected members of a secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq, as well as bringing militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training.

Coalition Forces found improvised explosive device materials and detained six individuals, including two who tested positive for explosives residue.  Another two of the six suspects are believed to be key leaders in the secret cell terrorist network. 

Intelligence reports indicate one suspected secret cell key leader is responsible for the planning and coordinating of numerous murders, kidnappings, assassinations and attacks on Iraqi civilians and Coalition Forces as well as involvement in IED attacks on Coalition Forces.  The other suspected leader is an explosives expert and weapons dealer.

 

TRIBAL ELDERS SURROUND INSURGENTS

Afghanistan— The set up of an illegal check point and the subsequent assault of a Jingle truck driver and destruction of a Jingle truck prompted local Tribal leaders to surround the insurgents responsible in a nearby house in Chapakoh village, Nuristan province May 17. 

Coalition forces conducted a Shura where the tribal elders informed the Coalition that they had surrounded the insurgents, responsible for the attacks, in a nearby house.

Villagers requested the Afghan National Police arrest the insurgents.  Coalition forces provided additional security outside the village while the ANP searched the home.  The insurgents fled the village before the ANP or Coalition forces could make an arrest.

 

HELMAND OPERATION TARGETS TALIBAN

KABUL , Afghanistan – Afghan and Coalition forces detained two militants in an operation early Wednesday against Taliban forces in the Kajaki district of Helmand Province. 

Militants fired on the combined forces as they approached one of the buildings.  Coalition forces responded with small arms fire and followed up with an air strike that destroyed the militants’ firing position.   

Credible intelligence led the forces to the compound suspected of housing Taliban militants.

 

ANP, COALITION FORCES FEND OFF ENEMY ATTACK NEAR SARKONI

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Afghan National Police and Coalition forces, patrolling near Sarkoni in Korengal Valley, received rocket propelled grenade and machine-gun fire from an unknown-size element of Taliban fighters May 16.

The ANP and Coalition forces returned fire and began to engage the enemy with mortars.    

Enemy fighters quickly retreated as friendly forces began to fight back.