Posted on 01/15/2006 1:18:01 PM PST by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2006 – Hundreds of security detainees were released from prison today, and multiple bombs and weapons caches were discovered in Iraq over the last few days, U.S. military officials reported. About 500 security detainees were released from Abu Ghraib prison. Those released were not guilty of serious or violent crimes, such as bombing, torture, kidnapping, or murder, and all have admitted their crimes, renounced violence, and pledged to be good citizens of a democratic Iraq, officials said.
In other news from Iraq, a young girl phoned in a tip about a possible roadside bomb to coalition forces yesterday, after she saw a white bag in a hole on a road in southeast Baghdad.
When coalition forces investigated, they found a man hiding in the grass by the road, four masked men in a car, a man carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and two suspected triggermen in the prone position. Coalition forces prevented the terrorism suspects from carrying out an attack, and an explosive ordinance team disabled the bomb, officials said.
Troops from the 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 7th Iraqi Army Division, discovered a bomb under a pile of hay near Ramadi after receiving a tip yesterday.
A bomb squad responded to the site and found a 155 mm round, a 12-volt battery, a washing machine timer and a radio base station. A bomb team disarmed the device and recovered the contents for later analysis and disposal.
Iraqi police also found a bomb made from a bag of explosives wired to a cell phone yesterday in Tal Afar. A bomb squad was called to the site, and the bomb was moved to a safe location and destroyed.
No injuries or damage were reported in any of the incidents.
Coalition forces found two large weapons caches Jan. 13. The first consisted of various rockets and rounds, blasting caps, a roll of detonation cord, a G3 rifle, a grease gun, an RPK machine gun, and six 50-pound bags of suspected bomb-making material. The second cache included recoilless rifles, various munition casings and numerous mortar fins, rifle springs and empty magazines.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq, Multinational Security Transition Command and Task Force Ironhorse news releases.)
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In other news from Iraq, a young girl phoned in a tip about a possible roadside bomb to coalition forces yesterday, after she saw a white bag in a hole on a road in southeast Baghdad.
Thanks for the ping!
The NYT and other liberal media will have to take responsibility for what comes next.
"Those released were not guilty of serious or violent crimes..."
But that doesn't mean they weren't guilty of serious or violent crimes.
It's great that Iraqi soldiers are having these successes (and the Iraqi civilians are dropping proverbial dimes). Terrorists can't last in urban environments when hostile citizens have cell phones.
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...and on the 1st day of our new World War on Terror came...
9/11 Lifesaving Hero RICK RESCORLA, R.I.P.
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A grease gun? Uh, oh. There's one of them out in my garage!
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