MULTI-NATIONAL CORPS – IRAQ,
Release
BAGHDAD – Special Iraqi Army Forces, with coalition advisors, captured an illegal armed group member during operations Dec. 13 in Baghdad, who is responsible for emplacing improvised explosive devices and manufacturing car bombs to specifically injure and kill Iraqi civilians and Iraqi Army forces.
The illegal armed group member is responsible for the abduction of an Iraqi soldier he held ransom until the soldier’s family paid for his release. The illegal armed group is involved in the abduction and murdering of other Iraqi security forces and Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.
Iraqi forces detained two additional suspects during operations who said a machine gun was located on the roof of a nearby mosque in the Abu Ghuraib area. Iraq security forces entered the mosque and confiscated the weapon. Five automatic assault rifles and a hand gun were also confiscated by Iraqi forces during operations.
There was minimal damage done to the objective. There were no Iraqi civilian, Iraqi forces or Coalition Forces casualties.
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