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Mar-17-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Included below is an excerpt from an article outlining a recent press briefing by Coalition officials. There has been a great deal of activity in Mosul recently.

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By Rudi Williams
American Forces Press Service

Earlier today, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for Combined Joint Task Force 7, briefed reporters in Baghdad on recent events and military operations. [...]

The general reported on the March 15 attack in eastern Mosul that killed four U.S. civilians working for a nongovernmental organization. The lone survivor, he said,is being treated at the Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

On March 16, Kimmitt said, the family of an Iraqi employee who works for Task Force Olympia was attacked in northeastern Mosul. One person was killed and two were wounded, the general said. "The two wounded Iraqis were treated and released. Two suspects are in the custody of the Iraqi Police Service," he added.

Also in the northern zone of operations, an Iraqi Civil Defense Corps patrol saw some people assembling a bomb underneath a bridge. "When the patrol approached, the individuals fled in a truck and escaped," Kimmitt said. "The area was cordoned off, and an explosive ordnance team found an artillery round with a garage door opener as an initiation device.

The ordnance team conducted a controlled detonation of the bomb, and the ICDC later tracked down the vehicle's owner, who subsequently was wounded in an engagement with the ICDC. "The suspect is under guard in a local hospital and will be turned over to coalition forces after his recovery," Kimmitt said.

Two police officers were killed and one was wounded March 16 when four people attacked an Iraqi police station in northeast Mosul with a rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire. The Iraqi Police Service is investigating the incident, Kimmitt said.

In eastern Mosul, Iraqi police arrested a suspected criminal cell leader during a raid and found a large cache of weapons, including a portable Soviet-made surface-to-air, shoulder-fired SA 7 missile and bomb-making material.

Three Iraqis were wounded in a bombing attack on the Iraqi armed forces recruiting station in eastern Mosul, Kimmitt said.


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