3RD BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM CAPTURES 34 SUSPECTS

CENTCOM ^ | Jan. 2, 2004

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

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January 2, 2004
Release Number: 04-01-06


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

3RD BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM CAPTURES 34 SUSPECTS

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Soldiers from Task Force 1st Armored Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team detained 34 suspected insurgents along with several weapons and bomb making materials during a cordon and search operation Jan. 1.

The mission kicked off at about 10 a.m. in central Baghdad. Iraqi Police, Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and soldiers from 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment surrounded and searched the Al Tabul Mosque. Intelligence sources indicated that the mosque was a center for anti-Coalition activity and a major weapons storage area.

The operation was completed at about 3 p.m. and a total of 34 persons were detained for questioning.

The mission also netted 11 AK-47 assault rifles, five sticks of PE4 explosives, eight hand grenades, three packages of TNT, a case of blasting caps, 83 pounds of gunpowder. Also recovered was a 60 mm mortar tube, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, a SA-7 missile, four computers with disks, assorted documents and two pictures of Saddam Hussein.

[r9etb]

Police, Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and soldiers from 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment surrounded and searched the Al Tabul Mosque.

The highlighted portion is very big news.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Headline news, yes!
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The mission also netted 11 AK-47 assault rifles, five sticks of PE4 explosives, eight hand grenades, three packages of TNT, a case of blasting caps, 83 pounds of gunpowder. Also recovered was a 60 mm mortar tube, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, a SA-7 missile, four computers with disks, assorted documents and two pictures of Saddam Hussein.

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Found inside the Mosque, where members pretended innocence and protested today.
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[NavyCaptain]

Sorry to say, this sounds like "body count" to me!

[TLI]

bttt

[Cap Huff]

Indeed this is significant. With Iraqi's helping the mosques are going to start to get cleaned out.

One thing that I like to see is that they got "four computers with disks, assorted documents . . ." They can keep the two pictures of Saddam.

[FreedomPoster]

They should have conducted an in-place EOD exercise.

[taxcontrol]

I served with the 1st Armored, 3 Brigade in Bamber Germany with the 1st Bn 52nd Inf. Anyone know what the status of the unit is? Are the Ready Rifles still active?

Anyone able to supply a URL that would allow me to look for myself?

[prairiebreeze]

Yes I saw the "protest" on the news. Appeared suspiciously to be geared toward the cameras IMO.

Prairie

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[SevenDaysInMay]

These are not suspects. They are illegal combatants, a war crime.

Civilian rags are no military uniform.

[whizzer]

By now,it should be apparent that mosques need some serious attention.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Some might need to be leveled!

[blackie]

3RD BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM CAPTURES 34 SUSPECTS ~ Bump!

The mission also netted 11 AK-47 assault rifles, five sticks of PE4 explosives, eight hand grenades, three packages of TNT, a case of blasting caps, 83 pounds of gunpowder. Also recovered was a 60 mm mortar tube, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, a SA-7 missile, four computers with disks, assorted documents and two pictures of Saddam Hussein ~ Bump!

Are these items necessary for worshiping Allah? :)

[aBootes]

soldiers from 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment

Redlegs!

[Col Freeper]

BTTT for our Defenders of Freedom -- and for IRAQ's Defenders of Freedom.

[PhilDragoo]

The operation was completed at about 3 p.m. and a total of 34 persons were detained for questioning.

[radu]

Lots of weapons confiscated = lives saved.

Four computers with disks = more intel.

WOOOHOOOOO!!!

My guess is they can find the same things in the vast majority of mosques in Iraq.

[Fledermaus]

Yeah, totally phony. What's worse, who cares if we stepped on some print of words from the Koran? Go get another copy.

Geez. Is this all they have?

[windchime]

Bump!