Iraqi Soldiers Prevent Attack, Detain 27 Suspects

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2006 - Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 8th Iraqi Army Division, prevented a large-scale sectarian attack in Iraq's Obiedi region, south of Baghdad Sept. 30 after receiving reports that local residents had been driven out of their homes.

Soldiers from 2nd Brigade linked up with soldiers from 3rd Brigade, 8th Iraqi Army Division, and conducted a cordon-and-search operation in the eastern section of the Obiedi region. Eight suspects were detained for questioning.

In a separate incident, soldiers from 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, and 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, detained a terrorist cell leader and 18 other suspects during a combined cordon-and-search operation west of Baghdad at about 8 a.m. Oct. 2.

As of Oct. 1, Iraqi security forces and Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers had cleared about 95,000 buildings, 80 mosques and 60 neighborhoods, detained more than 125 terrorist suspects, seized more than 1,700 weapons, registered more than 750 weapons and found 35 weapons caches in support of Operation Together Forward. The combined forces have also removed more than 195,841 cubic meters of trash from the streets of Baghdad.

(From a Multinational Corps Iraq news release.)

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