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Troops detain 30 in raid on Iraqi village

Apr-28-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

This is a good article outlining recent operations by the 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery.

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By Alex Neill, Army Times

TALL ABTAH, Iraq — Striking back at a recent surge in car bombings, soldiers with the U.S. and Iraqi armies conducted a predawn raid on this rural town, detaining 30 suspects and rooting weapons and potential bomb-making materials out of homes, animal pens and crude mud huts.

After shutting down roads in and out of the town of several thousand residents, more than 725 soldiers — 550 Iraqis and 175 Americans — poured into the dusty streets Wednesday morning in up-armored Humvees, Stryker combat vehicles and the small pickup trucks used by Iraqi forces. Apache helicopters circled the village and a pair of F-16s sliced the sky.

The 2nd Battalion of the 8th Field Artillery spearheaded the mission, acting on intelligence reports that car-bomb makers were operating out of the remote village to conduct attacks against coalition forces north in Mosul.

Insurgents carried out 10 car bomb attacks against coalition forces in the past 14 days, said Lt. Col. Bradley Becker, 2-8 commander. He led the mission along with commanders of the Iraqi Army’s regional forces.

The U.S. troops made a nearly 90-minute journey to the village, which sits in the 2-8’s sprawling area of operations, over roads that were traffic free because of curfew.


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