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Alaska’s Stryker Brigade captures al-Qaeda financier

Nov-11-2005 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

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KTUU-TV News

Anchorage, Alaska - Alaskan soldiers with the Stryker Brigade have made a major capture in Mosul, Iraq.

Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment from Fort Wainwright detained one of the principal financiers of the al-Qaeda cell in Mosul.

Lt. Col. Charles Webster, who spoke to KTUU-TV by phone from Mosul, says they got a tip while questioning suspects detained by Iraqi police. [...]


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