Release A060426a
Coalition forces kill 12 terrorists
BAGHDAD , Iraq – Coalition forces killed 12 terrorists during a raid April 25 in Yusifiyah at a safe house associated with foreign terrorists. Multiple intelligence sources led the troops to the specific structure located approximately 8 kilometers N/NE of the location where the U.S. Apache helicopter crashed April 1.
Upon arrival the troops took direct fire and immediately engaged the threat with small arms fire as well as rotary wing aircraft machine gun fire. The troops initially killed five terrorists outside of the safe house, and then called for an air strike to neutralize the persistent direct fire coming from the safe house.
After the precision air strike, the ground troops conducted a tactical search of the destroyed safe house and located the bodies of seven more terrorists and a woman. Every male who was found in the rubble was wearing an AK-47 vest with two loaded magazines and two grenades. The troops also discovered suicide notes on one of the terrorists, body bombs, weapons to include a shoulder-fired rocket and ammunition.
The first terrorist who ran out of the safe house upon the troops' arrival was attempting to launch the shoulder-fired rocket and was immediately engaged and killed.
Two wanted terrorists, one potentially transnational, were believed to be operating from this safe house. However, it is unknown at this time if the two were killed in the raid. Coalition forces are currently determining the identity of those killed.
The troops destroyed the weapons, suicide vests/body bombs and ammunition on-site.
Mortar attack stopped
TIKRIT, Iraq – Task Force Band of Brothers Soldiers shot and killed a terrorist preparing a mortar attack in Samarra April 25.
Soldiers from the 3 rd Brigade Combat Team, 101 st Airborne Division saw three men drive a truck over the security berm that surrounds the city and begin setting up a mortar system.
The Soldiers engaged the men before they could fire the mortar, killing one and forcing the other two to flee.
A search of the truck uncovered two mortar systems, 13 mortar rounds, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher with two warheads as well as several items commonly used in IED construction.
Iraqi Government may be in place in two weeks
BAGHDAD, Iraq (April 26, 2006) – “I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to parliament."
This is the word from Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Jawad al-Maliki in a state television interview April 25, a day after insurgent violence killed 20 and wounded more than 100.
In a CNN report, al-Maliki also said Iraqi society must be cleansed of terrorism, the government must be rid of "administrative corruption" and factional militias must be disarmed.
"I call on the Iraqis in all of their different factions and ethnic groups ... to go back to what they were like in Iraq, when the relationships were good between them and there was no prejudice based on their differences," al Maliki said, citing the many groups -- including Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims and Christians.
Al-Maliki said he is optimistic "about preparations in speeding the building of the security forces, not only to take over the security file but also to face the security challenges."
Iraqi Soldiers raid mosque
Iraqi Army Soldiers are taking up that challenge. Operating on actionable intelligence that a bomb-making cell was working out of the Ghubabah Mosque, they conducted a raid on the building April 25.
Fifity-five Iraqi Soldiers swept through the southeastern Baghdad mosque, in the Al Rashid neighborhood, resulting in the detention of eight suspects and the discovery of a weapons cache consisting of 13 rocket-propelled grenades, three RPG launchers, washing machine timers, six hand grenades and various improvised explosive device-making materials. The cache was found on the mosque's rooftop and taken to a nearby field for destruction where an explosive ordnance disposal team performed a controlled detonation.
Iraqi Soldiers conducted the operation, in which no shots were fired, without U.S. assistance.
CCCI convicts
In other news, a statement issued April 24 announced that The Central Criminal Court of Iraq convicted 23 defendants for committing crimes of kidnapping, stealing and possession of illegal weapons. The court’s sentences ranged between 6- to 10- year imprisonment, to life imprisonment and death penalty
Notable convictions included: four defendants charged with joining a terrorist gang. According to the provisions of Item No. 194 of punishments law, the court found them guilty and sentenced them to life imprisonment.
Three other suspects were sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping crimes, based on the provisions of Item No. 421 of the punishments law.
Clean streets
Some streets in south Baghdad are a little cleaner and safer because of projects and combined neighborhood efforts.
The challenge to win the support of the people of this region has been continuous for the Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.
“When we first arrived, the citizens of this area were without running, potable water and were receiving only four hours of electricity per day,” said Maj. Eric McFadden, 2nd BCT project manager.
The projects focused on returning fresh water and electricity to the surrounding areas. Now that the efforts are under way, a new priority of cleaning up the area has emerged.
Iraqi children joined coalition forces in their efforts to paint over anti-coalition graffiti in the area. Insurgents try to convey their negative messages by painting graffiti on walls, schools, houses and any other surface that will hold paint. Iraqi Army Soldiers and U.S. patrols immediately paint over the graffiti when it is discovered.
“Units used to be shuffled in and out of here fairly often, so they never got a chance to become familiar with the local citizens. Now that we’ve been here a while, I think the relationships we’ve been able to build have gone a long way in improving the security,” said 1st Lt. James Williams, with Company D, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment.
Release A060426b
IED triggerman captured
TIKRIT, Iraq – Task Force Band of Brothers Soldiers detained a suspected IED triggerman April 25 shortly after the man detonated a roadside bomb against a coalition convoy in Ad Dawr.
A coalition aircraft spotted the man hiding on a nearby rooftop when the attack occurred. Soldiers from the convoy were guided to the building and captured the suspect. The man tested positive for explosives residue and was detained for further questioning.
No Soldiers were injured in the attack.
Tags: MNF IraqAl Qaeda
War on Terror
Iraq
Iraqi Army
I like this chaps attitude: Thanks to Dhimmi Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/011188.php
An Islamic student group at Michigan State University demanded Monday that university officials publicly reprimand a professor whose Feb. 28 e-mail called on Muslims who don't "like the values of the West" to leave the United States.
But MSU officials said there's little that can be done to punish Indrek Wichman, 55, a tenured professor of mechanical engineering, because his comments essentially constitute free speech.
Wichman sent the message to the Muslim Students' Association of Michigan State University while it handed out free cocoa during a public awareness event about controversial cartoons that depicted Islam's founder as a terrorist.
The cartoons, one of which depicted Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb, sparked violent protests and riots around the world in February.
"I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders," Wichman wrote.
He went on to say: "I counsul you dissatisfied, agressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile 'protests.' "
A must watch video - Straight Talking:
0 people have spoken:
Post a Comment