March 21, 2007

VBIED Discovered; Terrorists Fail

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
RELEASE No. 20070321-04

Multi-National Division – North PAO
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq – Soldiers from the 303rd Military Police Company and Company C, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, discovered a car bomb around noon March 19 near the Al Fatah Mosque in Bayji.

“This mosque is located along a main road in Bayji and is traveled daily by tens of thousands of people. If detonated, it would have been a disaster,” said Maj. Curtis Buzzard, executive officer, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. “If it had exploded, damage to the Al Fatah mosque and deaths to innocent civilians in the area would’ve been inevitable. Clearly, the terrorists here have no respect for Islam and no respect for the Muslim people and Bayji community.”

An explosive ordnance disposal team was immediately dispatched to the scene where the four-door sedan was discovered with three 50-pound propane tanks filled with three 152 mm, two 155 mm, and one 130 mm rounds. Detonation wire was also found laid from the car bomb, across three light poles, and dropped down the base of a fence within the mosque’s facility.

Read the Rest...

No comments: