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One Iraqi National Guardsman is dead, 9 wounded

Jul-13-2004 » Filed Under: General Military

(TFO Press Release)

MOSUL, IRAQ (July 13, 2004) – One Iraqi National Guardsman is dead and nine are wounded after their convoy was attacked with small arms fire this morning as they traveled near the neighborhoods of Al Hadba and Al Qairawan near the Mosul University. Soldiers returned fire killing one of the anti-Iraqi terrorists before they fled.

The terrorists approached the convoy of guardsman in a black and maroon vehicle which contained five people. After attacking the convoy of Iraqi soldiers, they headed south through Mosul on the east side of town.

This incident is currently under investigation by the Iraqi Police.

In the past two weeks, ING battalions from northern Iraq have combined their efforts with Iraqi Police in the region along with multinational forces in support to conduct six combined operations to demonstrate to the people in the region that the Iraqi Security forces have taken the lead in security. These missions have consisted of large-scale house-to-house cordon and search operations in which ING soldiers and Iraqi Police search entire neighborhoods for terrorists, weapons and munitions. This series of combined operations have resulted in many arrests of known terrorist suspects and discoveries of large weapons caches.

Anyone with information about this attack is urged to inform the Iraqi Police or call the Task Force Olympia Tips Hotline 813-343 or 780-013.


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