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November 19, 2004
Release Number: 04-11-64
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OPERATION WOLFHOUND POWER DETERS INSURGENCY IN HAWIJA
HAWIJA, Iraq -- Task Force 1-27 Infantry Soldiers conducted a multiple-day offensive security operation called Operation Wolfhound Power that began on Nov. 11, in response to recent insurgent activity within this Sunni Arab city.
Operation Wolfhound Power was launched to root insurgents out of the city of about 85,000 residents, following insurgent attacks that injured three Task Force 1-27 Soldiers and 10 Iraqi National Guard troops on Nov. 11 and 12.
"We've been trying to prevent an uprising," said Spc. Victor Salazar, an infantryman with Company B, Task Force 1-27. "We can't search every house in Hawija, so we're doing mounted and dismounted security patrols, and searching for and detaining suspects."
Soldiers of Company C, Task Force 1-21 also lent their support to Operation Wolfhound Power by helping secure the city of Riyadh, a Sunni Arab town east of Hawija.
The operation will be ongoing until insurgent activity has been terminated in Hawija and its surrounding areas, Diaz said.
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For more information about this release contact the 1st Infantry Division Public affairs office at firstid.pao@us.army.mil
Photos are available by sending an e-mail to the Combined Press Information Center at cpicpressdesk@baghdadforum.com
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