BAGHDAD — A multifaceted coalition operation in the Shubayshen area, just south of Baghdad, led to the detentions of almost 50 individuals and a number of cache finds, April 21.
Operation Commando Dive incorporated several units’ operations from the2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., as well as the 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division.
Operation Eagle Dive was conducted by the Iraqi army “Baghdad Eagles” brigade in conjunction with U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team. The effort netted 33 detainees, most suspected of building and planting improvised explosive devices.
Caches found during the operation contained two machine guns, two shotguns, six AK-47 rifles, two ski masks, 27 mortar rounds, 280 57mm rockets, four 155mm rockets, nine 12-volt batteries, multiple mortar fuses, three IEDs, 500 hand grenades, four 82mm mortar tubes, a large rocket, and six rocket-propelled grenade launcher sights. Additionally, numerous IED initiation devices and 30 DVDs of al-Qaeda propaganda were discovered.
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