Iraqis Take Lead Against Bombers, Militia Leader
Nov. 7, 2006 at 11:30 AM
by Blogmaster
Tuesday, 07 November 2006 BAGHDAD ? Iraqi units took the lead in capturing suspected bomb-makers and a senior militia leader, officials at Multi-National Force-Iraq reported here today. Iraqi Special Forces personnel conducted a raid Nov. 4 in the Jihad district of Baghdad and captured two bomb makers. The unit detained seven other suspected cell members and confiscated two Iraqi uniforms. The cell is suspected of building Improvised Explosive Devices and car bombs as well as training other cells to use the weapons. In other developments, Iraqi Army and Multinational Division- Baghdad troops detained a senior militia leader in Baghdad Nov. 3, Coalition officials said. Soldiers from 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, searched the Al Hassan Mosque in Kadhamiyah, a Northern Baghdad neighborhood, after receiving reports that two Iraqi citizens were being held hostage there. Soldiers of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team conducted a cordon of the area to provide security. A group of concerned Iraqi citizens approached the Stryker Brigade Soldiers during the operation to tell them the whereabouts of a senior militia leader suspected of running a murder and kidnapping cell. The Iraqi Soldiers found evidence of foul play, but no hostages, officials said. They then moved to the reported location of the senior militia leader, where they found the suspected terrorist and apprehended him for further questioning. (American Forces Press Service) In other developments throughout Iraq: ? BALAD ? Coalition Forces discovered a large weapons and explosives cache and killed one terrorist during separate raids near Bayji and al-Yusifiyah Sunday morning. ? RAMADI ? Iraqi Policemen and Soldiers of the Iraqi Army delivered more than 6,000 pounds of food supplies to the Al Bohemla mosque Saturday to help relieve a food shortage here in the central portion of the city. Extracted from Multi ? National Forces-Iraq Website (www.mnf-iraq.com)
