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TF-Rogue troops capture AQI cell member as part of Phantom Phoenix

Multi-National Force-Iraq

Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080130-09
January 30, 2008

TF-Rogue troops capture AQI cell member as part of Phantom Phoenix
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers arrested a terrorist suspect during a raid in the Andalus neighborhood of Baghdad Jan. 29.

This arrest is part of Multi-National Division – Baghdad’s ongoing offensive operations in support of the countrywide Operation Phantom Phoenix.

Troops with the Scout Recon Platoon of HHC, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, operationally attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne arrested the middle-aged man after receiving reports he was in the area of operations in east Mansour earlier that day.

The man is believed to be a leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq from the Iskandariyah and Haswah area. He is suspected of targeting and attacking Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces south of Baghdad in the Multi-National Division – Center area of operations. The alleged terrorist was detained and taken to a Coalition Detention Facility for further questioning.

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