Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071231-06
December 31, 2007

Explosives found, hostage rescued during joint Saydiyah operation

4th IBCT Public Affairs

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers destroyed an abandoned house, and rescued a kidnapping victim during clearing operations in West Rashid Dec. 26.

Iraqi Army and Soldiers of the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, Task Force Dragon found homemade and plastic explosives during the joint operation aimed at quelling unrest in the Saydiyah area.

Explosive ordnance disposal personnel remotely detonated the cache, destroying the unoccupied house. There was no collateral damage.

IA Soldiers entered a house in search of a crane operator who had been kidnapped days before.

The man was taken to a Coalition Forces’ facility for medical screening.

Soldiers from Company B, 4th – 64th Armored Regiment also found a cache of eight 120mm rockets, a 107mm rocket, a 105mm projectile, roughly eight pounds of homemade explosives, four canisters of an unknown liquid and a car battery with wires.

EOD personnel command detonated the cache.

There were no casualties.

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