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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080107- 07
January 7, 2008

HBIED destroyed in Busayefi

2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div. PAO

Multi-National Division – Center PAO

BAGHDAD – Coalition Forces destroyed a house-borne improvised explosive device in Busayefi with precision fires Jan. 2.

Company B, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, discovered command detonation wires leading from the house to a canal nearby.

Concerned Local Citizens reported a separate IED north of the house made from two oxygen tanks with a crush wire detonator.

Both the HBIED, and crush wire IED were engaged by the precision fires and destroyed.

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