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HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
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May 17, 2004
Release Number: 04-05-39
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
U.S. SOLDIERS DETAIN 15 SUSPECTS, COLLECT WEAPONS
MOSUL, Iraq - U.S. Soldiers detained 15 suspects in two raids May 15 in Northern Iraq, and collected or destroyed large caches of weapons.
In the Mosul neighborhood of Al Jededa, Soldiers from 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) detained 10 people suspected of conducting improvised explosive device attacks against Coalition forces.
In the eastern Mosul neighborhood of Al Karama, Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment detained five people suspected of planning and conducting attacks against Coalition forces.
No Soldiers were hurt in either raid.
Also during the day, Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment discovered a large weapons cache near the Mosul Airfield that consisted of 50, 60mm mortar rounds; eight 82mm mortar rounds; nine hand grenades and one 60mm mortar tube. An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the rounds.
Soldiers of the same unit along with Iraqi Police reported a weapons turn-in at Mosul City Hall that consisted of seven rocket-propelled grenades and five RPG boosters. Later, the unit discovered nine 75mm artillery rounds southwest of Mosul.
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