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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080506-01
May 6, 2008

MND-B soldiers kill criminals emplacing IED, seize weapons caches (Baghdad)

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad soldiers, while conducting operations in support of their Iraqi Security Forces partners, killed two criminals and discovered two weapons caches in Baghdad May 5.

At approximately 5:15 a.m., soldiers with 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, discovered a weapons cache containing 60 mm mortar rounds, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, an RPG warhead, a light anti-tank weapon, a PKC light machine gun, an RPG fuse and PKC rounds.

At approximately 8 a.m., soldiers with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, discovered two large containers filled with 7.62 mm rounds while on a combat patrol.

At approximately 10:30 a.m. in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Ur, an MND-B patrol was attacked by criminals using small-arms fire.

The soldiers returned fire and killed one Special Groups criminal.

At approximately 11:50 a.m., a MND-B patrol received small-arms fire at a joint security station in south Sadr City. An air weapons team fired two Hellfire missiles on the criminals’ position.

The AWT engaged with a third missile when the small-arms fire continued. There was no further contact.

At approximately 2:40 p.m. in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Jamilla, an unmanned aerial vehicle observed two Special Groups criminals emplacing an improvised explosive device in the median of the roadway.

An air weapons team engaged the two, killing one and wounding the other.

The wounded criminal was loaded into a vehicle and evacuated by other criminals.

The IED was destroyed in the strike.

“The MND-B soldiers represent the best of our nation and are true professionals,” said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff of MND-B and the 4th Infantry Division. “They can transition from engaging a hostile enemy to providing assistance to the Iraqi people. They are warriors, peacekeepers and humanitarians.”

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