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Suspected insurgents caught red handed
BALAD, Iraq -- Task Force Band of Brothers caught seven suspected insurgents “red handed” April 20.
Soldiers on patrol with Bravo Battery, 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team observed the suspects digging. As the patrol approached, the suspects tried to flee in two vehicles. The Soldiers stopped, searched and detained all the suspects.
In one of the vehicles, a blue truck, more than 120-various mortar rounds, fuses and four missiles were discovered. At the dig site, Soldiers found a cache containing 250 artillery and mortar rounds, two anti-personnel land mines, one anti-tank mine and a hand grenade.
The munitions were taken to a secured location for controlled detonation. The suspects are undergoing questioning.
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Weapons cache found in New Baghdad neighborhood
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, found a weapons cache in a New Baghdad neighborhood at approximately 4 p.m. April 20.
The cache consisted of 81 75 mm projectiles, 43 grenades, three 82mm illumination rounds, one 85 mm projectile, two 90mm high-explosive rounds and four 100 mm heat projectiles.
The ordnance was destroyed at the site by Iraqi and U.S. explosive ordnance disposal teams.Release A060423d
Three Iraqi men, one woman detained
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces Soldiers detained three Iraqi men and an Iraqi woman while conducting combat operations near Abu Ghraib at approximately 1 a.m. April 23.
The woman was allegedly attempting to hide approximately 50 blasting caps under her clothing when detained. Coalition Forces Soldiers also confiscated several AK-47 assault rifles, a pistol and a sniper rifle.
The incident is currently under investigation.
MND-B Soldiers uncover large weapons cache, booby trap
BAGHDAD, Iraq – During a search of two houses in the southwestern suburbs of Baghdad, Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, uncovered a large cache of weapons April 22.
In the first house, the cache consisted of two 55-gallon drums of home-made explosives, two pressure plates, one artillery shell, a home-made rocket launcher, two pipes filled with high-explosive material, a seven-foot missile, a 14.5 mm Dishka heavy artillery machine gun and six anti-tank mines.
In the second house, located approximately 150 meters east of the first house, a second cache was found, consisting of eight shape charges, a sniper rifle, five pressure plates, three rocket-propelled grenades, an acetylene tank and two grenades taped to a window. The interior of the rear door appeared to contain an unfinished booby-trap.
Inside, Soldiers also found a note asking other terrorists for help to attack a local Coalition Forces operating base.
An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the caches on site.
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Eight suspected terrorists detained by MND-B Soldiers
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Eight suspected terrorists were detained April 22 during a combat patrol south of Baghdad.
At approximately 4 a.m., Multi-National Division – Baghdad’s 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, detained seven Iraqis suspected of running a bomb-making facility west of al Yusufiyah.
At approximately noon April 22, a local resident pointed out another suspect to MND-B Soldiers conducting a patrol near Abu Ghraib. After identifying him as a high-value target, they detained him along with an AK-47 rifle.
Story by Sgt. Mitch Armbruster
207th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
It’s also a hassle for servicemembers driving on the roads of Iraq, but Soldiers of Company C, 84th Engineer Battalion, from Fort Richardson, Alaska, work hard maintaining the alternate supply routes around Forward Operating Base Endurance to alleviate those problems.
The work the Soldiers do before a mission reflects the great strides they have made doing rapid pothole repair in the area.
The repair team has fixed approximately 50 potholes and three major road repairs in a month, according to 2nd Lt. Kurtis Schaaf.
On Feb. 14, the Soldiers accomplished their first pothole repair mission and they have been working hard ever since.
“These guys set the battalion record for most holes repaired in a night with 16,” Schaaf said.
Although 16 holes may not seem like much, the work they do to fill the potholes or washouts is immense. They cut out asphalt, shovel away debris and stamp the earth before filling the holes with concrete.
“They work hard and are a great group of guys,” said Spc. Arjim Auto, a medic with the 84th. “These guys work fast.”
“The guys love the mission and what they are doing,” Schaaf said. “It was slow moving at first, but now we are starting to get missions stacked on top of each other.”
The Soldiers fixed 12 holes under a moon lit sky on March 14th. A security team from the 84th kept the Soldiers worry free so they could concentrate on the potholes they were repairing.
The work the 84th has been doing around Endurance eliminates holes for possible improvised explosive devices but it also makes the ride smoother for those Soldiers, civilian contractors and Iraqi citizens in their vehicles.
“We’re trying to make a positive impact in the country,” Schaaf said.
El Beeb fawns over terrorist scumfuck.
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-He is wearing a suicide vest in the video- Oh for an unfortunate work accident.
“Your mujahideen sons were able to confront the most ferocious of crusader campaigns on a Muslim state. They have stood in the face of this onslaught for three years.” - yeah getting shot to hell by US planes is sure adding to Allahs virgin goat count.
"When the crusader enemy entered Iraq, he intended to control the Islamic nation and supported the Zionist state." - ah the ol Zionist state rubbish.
"By God, America will be defeated in Iraq." - Well no even the MSM got that one wrong and the Iraqi people know freedom is best for them. The BBC article on this never even called this subhuman camel fucking son of a whore pig a terrorist. See the BBC fawn here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4944250.stm
STUPIDITY = . Wrong number: Interpreter answers mobile & jihad denied
IBRAHIM AL MARKHUR, Iraq — One misplaced cell phone and one savvy interpreter equaled one dead insurgent, several pieces of intelligence and a whole lot of captured weapons.
On a routine patrol, U.S. troops with 1st Battalion, 68th Armor came upon a house in the midst of dense greenery and at the end of a dusty country road.
Staff Sgt. Matthew Nicodemus, 33, said he immediately noticed that no Iraqi men were around.
Suddenly, a cell phone inside the home rang, said Nicodemus, of Altoona, Pa.
“The interpreter went in and answered the phone, and on the other end of the phone the person said, in Arabic, ‘Hey, coalition forces are here, go ahead and run away,’ and he specifically said, ‘Go and run into the palm groves all around here,’ ” Nicodemus said. ...
The interpreter kept the act going.
“He’s basically acting like, you know, he’s watching us ... making sure everything is fine,” Nicodemus said.
The U.S. troops knew the insurgents were coming back and decided to lie in wait for them.
Many troops said they were psyched by the prospect of killing the person on the other end of the phone.
“I love this [expletive],” said Sgt. Nicholas Hake-Jordan, 23, of Springfield, Ore.
The troops didn’t have to wait long.
Shortly after U.S. troops set up, the insurgents called the interpreter and said they would be by in about 10 minutes to attack the Americans, said Staff Sgt. Art Hoffman, 30.
When seven insurgents got to the house, they ran into a wall of U.S. fire, said Hoffman, of Baltimore.
“The first guy that came in the door just dropped like a rock. The other two guys behind him got hit pretty hard, too. The rest grabbed their wounded and just ran back off,” said Hoffman.
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