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Pre-Election Raids

Feb- 5-2009 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

According to the following Stars & Stripes article (see sidebar photos) the 1/25 SBCT was involved in pre-election raids in Iraq.

BAGHDAD — More than 100 joint raids by American and Iraqi forces helped keep Baghdad free of attacks during Saturday’s provincial elections, Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond said Tuesday during a lunch with reporters.

Iraqi and American forces conducted combined operations against 111 different "deliberate targets" in the 72-hour period before election day, said Hammond, the Multi-National Division—Baghdad commander.

Units hit all the targets within a concentrated period just before the vote in order to cause maximum disruption to any violence enemy fighters had planned for election day, he said.


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