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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080102-03
January 2, 2008

Iraqi man detained in killing of Iraqi police officer
Multi-National Division – North PAO

TIKRIT, Iraq – Iraqi Army Soldiers detained an Iraqi man for questioning Dec. 31 for the murder of an off-duty Iraqi

Police officer shot in Baquba. Iraqi Police officer Muhammad Salih Muhammad was killed in the Dec. 28 shooting. 

First Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, reported that the

alleged murderer was detained by the Iraqi Army and positively identified by a local witness.

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