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January 2, 2004
Release Number: 04-01-06
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3RD BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM CAPTURES 34 SUSPECTS
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Soldiers from Task Force 1st Armored Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team detained 34 suspected insurgents along with several weapons and bomb making materials during a cordon and search operation Jan. 1.
The mission kicked off at about 10 a.m. in central Baghdad. Iraqi Police, Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and soldiers from 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment surrounded and searched the Al Tabul Mosque. Intelligence sources indicated that the mosque was a center for anti-Coalition activity and a major weapons storage area.
The operation was completed at about 3 p.m. and a total of 34 persons were detained for questioning.
The mission also netted 11 AK-47 assault rifles, five sticks of PE4 explosives, eight hand grenades, three packages of TNT, a case of blasting caps, 83 pounds of gunpowder. Also recovered was a 60 mm mortar tube, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, a SA-7 missile, four computers with disks, assorted documents and two pictures of Saddam Hussein.
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