Stryker Brigade News

His was known as the primary beheading cell for Abu Talha, a terrorist who was captured in June.

Nashwan had personally assisted in at least three videotaped beheadings in Mosul.

The beheadings were filmed to intimidate the local population of Mosul as well as Iraqi citizens throughout Iraq.

Nashwan was chiefly responsible for attacking Iraqi security and coalition forces. These attacks consisted of engaging convoys with small arms fire, rocket propelled grenades and improvised explosive devices.

His cell was also responsible for intimidating Mosul citizens through criminal activities such as roadblocks, stopping local citizens to extort money from them or kidnapping family members of businessmen or prominent families to ransom them for money.

Nahi Achmed Obeid Sultan (aka Abu Hassan), assistant to Nashwan, was killed during the raid. He was responsible for providing personal security for Nashwan and running the day-to-day operations of the terrorist cell.

Also in Mosul, units from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, acting as part of Task Force Freedom, killed two terrorists, wounded another, detained 31 suspected terrorists and seized a number of weapons during operations in Iraq last week.

Soldiers from 2nd Bn., 1st Inf., detained 27 individuals suspected of terrorist activity, wounded one terrorist and seized a weapons cache during operations in Mosul Oct. 26-28.

Soldiers from 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment killed two terrorists after receiving small arms fire in eastern Mosul Oct. 24. Soldiers from the 4th Bn., 23rd Inf., also detained one individual for violating curfew while patrolling in western Mosul Oct. 28.

Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, detained three individuals suspected of terrorist activity during operations in western Mosul Oct. 25-26.