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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071015-07
October 15, 2007

Morning Baghdad raid captures a top target

2nd IBCT, 2nd Inf. Div. Public Affairs
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq – Soldiers with the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, acting off intelligence reports, detained four suspected criminals in an early morning raid Oct. 15.

Based off the intelligence, Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, based out of Fort Bragg, N.C., positively identified and captured one of the top five extremists being pursued by Multi-National Division – Baghdad, allegedly responsible for a rocket attack on Victory Base Camp last week.
 
Also detained were three known associates.

In the course of this operation, these criminal elements sought to evade capture by hiding in the Ministry of Agriculture compound in the Rusafa District of eastern Baghdad, and as a result, CF were compelled to enter the Ministry to detain them.

“We have reason to believe that, through two intelligence-driven operations over the last few days, we now have detained all of the leadership and the key operatives of the indirect fire cell that attacked Victory Base last week,” said Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, Multi-National Division Baghdad’s deputy commanding general.

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