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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080511-03
May 11, 2008

MND-B kill criminals, seize, destroy weapons (Baghdad)

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad soldiers killed four criminals engaged in attacks against Coalition forces, seized two caches and destroyed illegal weapons in operations across Baghdad May 10.

At approximately 8:45 a.m., MND-B soldiers discovered a weapons cache in Mansour containing multiple mortar rounds and a mortar bipod.

At approximately 2:45 p.m., soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, discovered a weapons cache in west Rashid containing an unknown type of rocket, an RPK machinegun, an RPK barrel and more than 350 RPK rounds.

At approximately 3 p.m., soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, killed three armed criminals with small-arms fire. A tank also engaged after the soldiers were attacked by criminals while on a barrier emplacement mission in Sadr City.

At approximately 3:30 p.m., soldiers destroyed a mortar tube and launch site after an aerial weapons team identified it in Sadr City.

At approximately 5 p.m., soldiers with 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division tank engaged and killed one criminal on a rooftop in Sadr City.

“MND-B soldiers, in full partnership with Iraqi Security Forces, will not cease in our efforts to seek out the enemy who would do the Iraqi people harm,” said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff of the MND-B and 4th Infantry Division. “If we see illegal activity, rocket or mortar teams, those carrying rocket-propelled grenades or improvised-explosive device emplacers, we will engage them with precision fire.”

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