LOCAL IRAQI CITIZEN FOILS CAR BOMB PLOT

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October 28, 2004
Release Number: 04-10-74

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOCAL IRAQI CITIZEN FOILS CAR BOMB PLOT

MOSUL, Iraq -- A Mosul citizen prevented a car bomb attack after the anonymous individual informed Multi-National Forces of the suspected explosive device in the Mosul neighborhood of Al Wahda on Oct. 27.

Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) responded based on the citizen’s information, and confirmed anti-Iraqi forces rigged the car with explosives. An Explosive Ordnance Disposal team destroyed the car bomb.

The citizen’s ability to identify the car bomb and courageously inform the appropriate authorities potentially saved the lives of Iraqi Security Forces, Multi-National Forces and Iraqi citizens.

Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Forces continue to work together with members of the community to make Iraq safe, prosperous and democratic. Local citizens are asked to cooperate with security forces by providing information that leads to the capture and arrest of anti-Iraqi forces.

We need much more of this. Afterall, it is the Iraqis who are dying because of islamic radicals who are coming across the border and have no regard for these people's lives. It's appaling to me that other Arab countries haven't denounced these car bombings which are killing their own brethren. Their blind hatred for us is sacrificing their own people. Sad. However, in the end, I do believe the Iraqi people will rise up to repel these murderers. You can only watch so many of your family and friends be killed before you take action.

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