Release A051022b
Coalition forces raid Husaybah foreign fighter safe houses
Multi-National Force-Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Twenty terrorists suspected of sheltering al Qaeda in Iraq foreign fighters were killed and one captured during Coalition raids on a series of safe houses in Husaybah Oct. 22.
Coalition forces raided two neighborhoods in Husaybah and discovered two large weapons caches containing small arms, ammunition, rocket propelled grenades, mortar rounds, explosives, and bomb making materials to include radios and detonators.
Additionally, a vehicle bomb was also located near one of the terrorist safe houses.
Coalition forces destroyed the vehicle bomb, five safe houses and caches using precision guided munitions upon departure from the area.
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