MNFI Press Release - May 3

TIP LEADS ISF, MND-B SOLDIERS TO CACHE
MultiNational Division – Baghdad (MND-B) Soldiers and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) seized a cache in the Risalah community in southern Baghdad during a joint patrol at approximately 6 a.m. on May 3rd. Acting on a tip from a concerned local Iraqi, policemen from the 5th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi National Police Division, and Soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, seized explosively formed penetrators, police protective vests, ballistic plates, ballistic helmets, identification cards, Iraqi Army uniforms, and machinegun ammunition. “This find is significant because the criminals were up to no good with all those extraneous identification cards, police uniforms and accessories, and the roadside bombs,” said Maj. Dave Olson, public affairs spokesman for 1BCT, 4th Inf. Div. MND-B.

MULTINATIONAL SOLDIERS KILL 5 TERRORISTS, DETAIN 24
Multinational soldiers killed five criminals, detained 24, found two caches and two explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) throughout a 24-hour period in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad on May 1st. At approximately 8 p.m. on May 1st, Iraqi policemen from 5th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division, and soldiers from 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, were attacked by 10 criminals using small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire in the Aamel community during an operation to apprehend a key criminal. The patrol requested attack aviation support. An aerial weapons team fired a Hellfire missile and killed five criminals. The soldiers detained 20 suspected terrorists and various equipment.

At approximately 8 p.m. May 2, soldiers from Company E, 1-22nd Infantry Regiment, seized roadside-bomb making materials in the Shurta neighborhood. At approximately 11 p.m. on May 2nd, soldiers from 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, attached to the 1st BCT, 4th Infantry Division found an emplaced EFP while conducting a combat patrol. The soldiers notified an explosive ordnance disposal unit about the cache in the Risalah community.

At the same time, soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, received a tip from local Sons of Iraq, or Abna al-Iraq members of a possible IED on the side of the road in the Furat area. The patrol requested EOD support, which determined the site was a cache consisting of roadside bomb-making materials. On their way to the Furat site, the 47th EOD Company from Fort Hood, Texas, located and removed another EFP from the side of the road in the Risalah neighborhood at approximately 12:30 a.m. on May 3rd.