
Coalition Raids Lead to Several Captures>
By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USA
American Forces Press Service
During a briefing today from Baghdad, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Combined Joint Task Force 7, said that Ayed Hameed Nouri was arrested Feb. 23 at the Niwan Hotel in central Mosul. He was apprehended without incident.
Kimmitt reported that in a separate raid Iraqi Civil Defense Corps forces captured Shahab Al-Hawas, a suspected financier of coalition attacks and a cousin of al-Dhouri.
Over the past 48 hours, coalition forces conducted seven offensive operations in Mosul against members of an organization known as the al-Rawfa al-Watani movement, Kimmitt also reported. Seventeen individuals were detained as a result of the raids, including two targets.
Other events Kimmitt reported included the following:
- An Iraqi police officer was fired upon while walking to his
station in northern Mosul by unknown persons driving a maroon Opel. The
assailants fired about 20 to 30 rounds from an AK-47 assault rifle at the
officer, who was not injured.
- Two days ago, a white Jeep Cherokee with three personnel armed
with AK-47s conducted a drive-by shooting of a northeastern Mosul police
station. Two wounded Iraqi policemen were taken to a local hospital.
- Today, an Iraqi police service student was wounded en route to
the Mosul Public Safety Academy. The student is currently in a Mosul
hospital.
- In Baghdad, one mortar round impacted near the Attamiyah police
station Feb. 22. The mortar missed the police station but struck a house behind
it, fatally wounding two Iraqi civilians.
- Coalition forces supported an Iraqi police special combat unit
raid Feb. 22 on suspected murderer Nasir Mashur, who was captured without
incident.
- In the western zone, a joint cordon and search led to the capture
of 18 criminal gang members suspected of impersonating coalition forces while
committing criminal activities. Another operation captured five individuals
suspected of using local mosques as weapon markets and safe houses. The
individuals are believed to have facilitated a Feb. 10 car bombing attack in
Iskandariyah.
- In the central south zone, local Iraqis reported a possible bomb
near a small village in Hillah. Coalition forces responded and arrested three
individuals carrying explosives in their vehicle.
- In the southeastern zone of operations, a coalition force convoy
southwest of Abu Zubair was fired upon with small-arms fire from a white four-
door vehicle. There were no casualties. "The convoy did not return fire and
continued on its mission south," Kimmitt said.
Meanwhile, Kimmitt reported an average of 20 engagements daily against coalition military in the past week, four attacks daily against Iraqi security forces and a little under three against Iraqi civilians.
Overall, Kimmitt told reporters that in the past 24 hours, 1,412 patrols, 29 offensive operations and 10 raids were conducted, and 36 anti-coalition suspects captured.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2004/n02242004_200402247.html
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