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Task Force Finds Terrorists, Weapons

Dec-16-2005 » Filed Under: TF Freedom

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MOSUL, IRAQ — Iraqi Security Forces along with Multi-National Forces from Task Force Freedom detained suspected terrorists and seized weapons caches in northern Iraq Dec. 5-12.

In Mosul, Iraqi Army soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Division, along with Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, seized a cache of AK-47s with multiple loaded magazines, a sniper rifle with loaded magazines, an anti-aircraft missile launcher with four missiles, more than 100 rounds of ammunition, 500 more linked rounds of ammunition, a semi-automatic pistol, an automatic rifle, hand grenades, rocket propelled grenade launchers with ammunition and high explosives during a raid Dec. 12.

Iraqi Army soldiers confiscated the cache for future destruction.

Soldiers from 1-17th also detained five individuals suspected of terrorist activity and seized an anti-tank mine, detonators and a timer Dec. 5. They detained eight individuals suspected of terrorist activity during operations Dec. 6-10 and another 10 suspects during a raid Dec. 7.

Soldiers from 4th Battalion, 11th Field Artillery Regiment, detained an individual suspected of terrorist activity during operations Dec. 9 and Soldiers from 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, detained three individuals suspected of terrorist activity during operations Dec. 10.

(Provided by the Task Force Freedom, Multinational Force-Northwest Public Affairs Office.)


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