Thursday, May 15, 2008

Centcom News Feed - May 15

IRAQI TROOPS SEIZE IEDs IN EAST MANSOUR
Alert Iraqi Army soldiers and Iraqi Policemen prevented potential improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in the East Mansour District of Baghdad when they stopped a vehicle that was being used by criminal forces to transport IEDs in the area at about 1 p.m. on May 7th. Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 54th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, along with Jamia Iraqi Policemen, conducted a traffic stop after noticing a suspicious individual driving down a road. After stopping the vehicle, the alert soldiers and policemen discovered the deadly weapons in the vehicle. The forces fired at the man and wounded him. Inside the vehicle, the forces seized three tanks of oxygen that were set up as IEDs. An explosive ordnance detachment arrived on the scene and detonated the device.

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