March 12, 2007

Iraqi Citizen Leads Polar Bears to IED

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
RELEASE No. 20070311-05

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

YUSUFIYAH, Iraq – Coalition and Iraqi Forces discovered an improvised explosive device here March 10. Soldiers of the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment “Polar Bears,” 2nd Brigade,10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) and the 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division discovered the bomb after an Iraqi citizen approached them at the newly established Joint Security Station in Yusufiyah.

The Iraqi Army disarmed the explosives and immediately called the explosive ordnance team. The IED was destroyed in place during a controlled detonation.

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