ISF blunt embassy attack, capture terror suspects
By Task Force Baghdad
July 11, 2005
Baghdad, Iraq (Army News Service, July 11, 2005) - Iraqi Special Police thwarted a possible terrorist attack against the Kuwaiti Embassy July 9.
Shortly before 8 a.m. Iraqi Special Police guarding the embassy in central Baghdad saw a rocket propelled grenade round placed near the building’s southeast entrance.
An explosives ordnance disposal team was called to the site to safely remove the round.
In combat operations, Iraqi Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division conducted an operation in Abu Ghraib to seize illegal weapons, bomb making materials and disrupt terrorist activities in the area.
The Iraqi Soldiers searched house to house for nearly five hours and detained five terror suspects. Additionally, the Soldiers found anti-Coalition propaganda and confiscated a car whose trunk was covered in blood.
Iraqi Soldiers also detained a terrorist wanted by both the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of the Interior while searching a business district in central Baghdad.
“Iraqi Security Forces continue to disrupt terrorists and interdict foreign fighters, and provide security for all of Iraq,” said Lt. Col. Clifford Kent, a Task Force Baghdad spokesperson. “Iraqi Security Forces are developing the capacity to secure their own country.”
At around 4:30 p.m. an Iraqi citizen walked up to the gate of a U.S. military base in southeast Baghdad and told Soldiers he’d found some unexploded munitions.
The Iraqi man led Soldiers to the site and showed them four 122 millimeter explosive rounds. A team of explosives experts safely detonated the munitions.
In other operations, Task Force Baghdad Soldiers working in and around Baghdad, found and safely disabled four roadside bombs before terrorists could use them.
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