December 14, 2006
Freedom Journal Iraq #541(Updated)
Coalition hunts suspects
Marines keep skies safe
Updated: I have added a few of Centcom's Press releases below the fold. I dont want the First Lady mad at me too.
RAMADI POLICE BATTLE INSURGENT AMBUSH
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq Iraqi Police in western Ramadi fought through an ambush and cleared three buildings Sunday.
More than forty Iraqi police responded quickly to reports of kidnappings of university students by Al Qaeda insurgents in the notorious Tameen neighborhood.As the police force approached, insurgents attacked them with rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire from three buildings.
The police exchanged gunfire with the insurgents and entered the buildings, searching them from room to room. An Iraqi Army patrol responded to the policemens call for back-up and joined the firefight against the insurgents. Coalition Forces also responded to the call for back-up and assisted with security in the area.
The police, based out of the Al Huriyah Station, searched and secured the buildings themselves while Coalition Forces provided security. The fight lasted for three hours.
An Iraqi Policeman was killed in action and four civilians were wounded in the crossfire. The wounded were evacuated to the nearest Coalition medical center.
The Iraqi Police detained 26 suspected insurgents and returned to their posts in the city.
In Hit, Iraq, three Iraqi civilians were wounded by crossfire Monday when insurgents attacked Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces near a hospital.A
All three wounded civilians were initially treated by Coalition Forces. Follow-on treatment was provided at the hospital.
In Julaybai, Iraq, four insurgents were killed after attacking Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5 Tuesday.
The house from which the insurgents were fighting was destroyed by precision munitions.
There were no reports of civilian or Coalition Forces casualties.
Elsewhere in western Al Anbar Province U.S. Marines also with Regimental Combat Team 7 discovered several large weapons and munitions caches this weekend.
Two large caches were discovered during various Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces clearing operations in the Haditha Triad region a populated area with 80,000 residents, consisting of three co-located cities along the Euphrates River in western Anbar Province Haditha, Barwanah, and Haqlaniyah.
All five caches contained a variety of ammunition, munitions and improvised explosive device-making materials, to include rocket-propelled grenades, bullets, mortars, mortar fuses, machine guns and various rifle scopes, among other items.
Two of the caches were discovered Saturday by U.S. Marines on a patrol in Haqlaniyah. Of the two, the largest cache 200 meters in length is one of the largest caches Coalition Forces have discovered in western Al Anbar Province in the past year.
Two more smaller caches were discovered Sunday, both also in Haqlaniyah. The fifth cache was discovered Monday in Haditha.
The following were discovered in two separate cache discoveries Saturday:
(1) Rocket-propelled grenade sight
(31) AK-47 assault rifle magazines
(50) feet of time fuse
(50) Fuse components
(1) Grenade
(2) Grenade fuses
(810) 7.62 mm rounds
(1) AK-47 assault rifle bayonet
(920) 5.56 mm link rounds
(750) 5.56 mm ball rounds
(2,660) 7.62 mm link rounds
(150) 9mm ball rounds
(2) 9 mm magazines
(30) 20 gauge shells
(5) Rifle scopes
(5) Mortar sights
(3) Cordless phone base stations
(14) Phone chargers
(2) Radio batteries
(3) Spools of command wire
(4) Military hand-held radios
(1) Periscope
(1) Pair of binoculars
(1) 2-band antenna
(1) PRC-119 battery
(1) RPK machine gun
(1) PKM machine gun
(1) British assault rifle
(11) Rocket pods
(1) SA-7 surface-to-air missile, missile launcher, and
battery module
(10) Magazine pouches
(26) RPG propellants
(17) 40 mm RPGs
(7) RPG launchers
(5) Electric blasting caps
(24) Artillery fuses
(79) 82 mm mortar fuses
(39) 122 mm rocket motors
(2) 107 mm rockets
(1) Car Alarm
(41) RPG-7s
(11) Iraqi RPGs
(185) Chinese 82 mm mortar rounds
(7) Iraqi hand grenades
(10) Pounds of propellant
(2) 122 mm rocket fuses
(106) 82 mm mortar fuses
(7) 122 mm warheads
(1) Command module
(4) Firing relays
(2) Bags of sulfur
(2) Bottles of rat poison
(2) U.S.-issued Red Star clusters
Various enemy documentsThe following were discovered in two separate cache discoveries Sunday and one Monday:
(1) 122 mm projectile with detonation cord, 10-pound
stick of propellant, 10-feet of time fuse, 30-feet of red
detonation cord
(1) 155 mm supplementary charge, 11 pounds of TNT
(2) improvised Bangalore torpedoes
(4) 57 mm projectiles prepared for use with IEDs
(3) RPG launchers
(1) Sabot round
(1) P6-9
(1) P6-7
(1) Pakistani #36 green grenade
(3) 82 mm mortars
(2) flight motors
(2) R6D, green with fuses
(4) PD fuses
(5) 60 mm mortars with fuses
(2) RPG scope
(3) 57 mm rounds
(1,000) 7.62 mm rounds
(19) AK-47 assault rifle magazines
(2) Hand-held radios
(3) Chinese M-6 fuses
(1) 6V battery
(1) 12V battery
(1) LRCT
(2) LRCT batteries
(2) IED chest rigs
(3) Pairs of binoculars
(1) Washing Machine Timer
(1) Black dishasha
(2) Electrical blasting caps
(100) Feet of black wire
(1) Global Positioning System
(4) Pellet Guns
(7) Batteries
(1) CPU
(3) Cell phones
(1) Wire tester
(2) Radios
(1) Camera
(2) HK G3 rifles
(3) AK-47 assault rifles
(1) Sub-machine gun
(2) Pistols
(1) Shotgun belt
(2) Swords
Copper Wire
Various blasting capsRCT-7 is the Coalition Forces unit responsible for providing security and mentoring Iraqi Security Forces in western Al Anbar Province, an area more than 30,000 square miles in size which stretches from the Jordanian and Syrian borders, hundreds of miles east to Hit, a city located about 35 miles northwest of Ramadi.
IRAQI ARMY ARRESTS FIVE SUSPECTS IN RUSAFA
FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq Troops from 2nd Battalion, 6th Iraqi Army Division arrested five suspected terrorists for criminal activity near the New Pharmacy College in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Rusafa Dec. 11.This is good news. The Islamic State of Iraq AKA al-Qaeda has threatened to shut down Baghdad University. They say they will kill Sunnis who disobey the order to save them from Shiite death squads. Funny well killyou to save you from being killed. Nice guys. Kidnapping of westerners has declined but Iraqis are still in danger. 30 were kidnapped and then later released today. Lest I be accused of only posting good news.The 2-6 IA was sent out to investigate the report of a kidnapping of several university students. During their patrol, they spotted five men engaged in illegal activity at the university. Members of the patrol detained the five suspects.
The men were armed with five pistols and 65 rounds of ammunition. The men also had four fake university police badges. The detainees said they were university police, but were spotted carrying weapons and the car they were using had Unbar license plates.
SIX SUSPECTED TERRORISTS DETAINED; WEAPONS CACHE FOUND
BAGHDAD, Iraq Coalition Forces detained six suspected terrorists and seized a weapons cache Wednesday morning near Tikrit while seeking a terrorist associated with the al-Qaida in Iraq network.You can read all Centcoms press releases here.Intelligence reports also indicated the production of improvised explosive devices was also taking place in the targeted area.
When ground forces searched the targeted building, they discovered a weapons cache consisting of machine guns, pistols, rocket-propelled grenade boosters and a sniper rifle scope.
Ground forces also found the equivalent of more than $200,000 in Iraqi Dinar along with more than $160,000 in U.S. currency.
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