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Terror cell leader and four associates captured

Jun- 8-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

(TFF Press Release)

MOSUL, IRAQ (June 7, 2005) – Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Forces from 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) detained five suspected terrorists, including a high-level terrorist leader, during operations in northern Iraq.

Iraqi Army troops alongside Stryker Brigade Soldiers detained Mullah Mahdi, leader of the Ansar Al-Sunnah terror cell based in Mosul, and four associates during cordon and search operations in Mosul. Mahdi is wanted by Iraqi authorities for a number of terror acts conducted in Mosul including multiple kidnappings, attacks on polling stations, mortar attacks on Multi-National Forces, and the likely murdering of a local government officials.

Along with local terror leaders, ISF and MNF have recently captured a number of foreign fighters from Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco who have revealed during interviews that they have been lied to and deceived by terror leaders to get them to fight in Iraq. Foreign fighters were told MNF Soldiers were raping women and destroying Iraq. They were also told by terror leaders inside Iraq that they would be asked to fight and kill Americans, but once they arrived were ordered to kill innocent Iraqi civilians instead. The foreign fighters have admitted that they have been abused and mistreated by the terrorists who employed them. They also admitted that they were not told the truth about Iraq, and freely stated that they would not have come here to fight had they know the truth.


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