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ING soldier foils attack, identifies car bomb

Aug- 2-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

(TFO Press Release)

MOSUL, IRAQ (August 2, 2004) – At about 10 p.m. August 1, an off-duty Iraqi National Guard soldier identified an unexploded car bomb outside of a church in northeastern Mosul. The soldier notified the Iraqi Police and his chain of command that then sent ING soldiers to secure the scene and the vehicle.

Acting on the information, soldiers from the 101st Iraqi National Guard Battalion located the taxi that was loaded with munitions and wired to explode. Iraqi explosive ordnance disposal teams reduced the bomb without injury and removed the vehicle to their headquarters in eastern Mosul .

The taxi contained artillery rounds, plastic explosives, fuel cans and a detonation device.

The immediate response of the Iraqi Security Forces prevented what could have been a third car bomb explosion in less than 24 hours in the Mosul area. Earlier in the day, a suicide car bomber drove a vehicle into a barrier outside of the Somer Police station in southeastern Mosul , killing five including three Iraqi Police officers and two civilians, and wounding more than 50, including 43 civilians.

In a second car bomb attack yesterday at approximately 7 p.m. , terrorists detonated a car bomb outside of the Marpolus Catholic Church in northeastern Mosul , killing one and wounding seven, and destroying several vehicles in the area.


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