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Improvements in Mushada

Jan- 2-2009 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Stars & Stripes has a long article on the security improvements in Mushada, where elements of the 2/25 SBCT have been operating for the past year.

Violence in Mushada and Tarmiyah along northwest Baghdad — greatly diminished over the past year — has recently turned from security forces toward individuals, largely targeting those still tangled in the al-Qaida networks that once terrorized the area, according to 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. [...]

Fighting was intense when the 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment — a Stryker battalion — moved into the area 13 months ago. But by early 2008, the local population was weary of the al-Qaida presence and a major offensive helped clear the group from the area, said Maj. Todd Woodruff, the battalion executive officer.

"It is hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t say they had a family member killed by al-Qaida," Woodruff said.

Today, the battalion has a variety of reconstruction success stories from Mushada and Tarmiyah.


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