IRAQ: UNITED STATES TROOPS AND IRAQI POLICE CONDUCT SERIES OF RAIDS AND ARREST SEVERAL IRAQIS

Record ID: 338235

  • Title: IRAQ: UNITED STATES TROOPS AND IRAQI POLICE CONDUCT SERIES OF RAIDS AND ARREST SEVERAL IRAQIS
  • Date: 2nd January 2004
  • Summary: (W3) BAQUBA, IRAQ (JANUARY 1, 2004) (REUTERS) (NIGHT VISION) 1. MV U.S. TROOPS AND IRAQI POLICE ENTERING HOUSE; MV TROOPS AND POLICE SEARCHING HOUSE; MV SOLDIER SEARCHING IRAQI MAN (7 SHOTS) 0.41 (DAY LIGHT) 2. MV HANDCUFFED IRAQIS'; MV ARRESTED IRAQIS SITTING ON THE GROUND FACING THE WALL; SCU WEAPONS FOUND IN RAID (5 SHOTS) 1.06 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILLIAM ANDERSON, TASK FORCE COMMANDER OF THE CITY OF BAQUBA, SAYING "The soldiers that participated in this attack did not have a very good New Year's Eve, we had to get some sleep, we got started about two in the morning, but it was a very successful day and we got a lot of bad operators off the streets in Baquba." 1.20 4. MV/SLV U.S. SOLDIERS AND IRAQI POLICE ON THE STREETS OF BAQUBA 1.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 17th January 2004 12:00
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  • Location: BAQUBA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA295CC2S593K6BLHI2YUVDTJBZ
  • Story Text: U.S. troops and Iraqi police have conducted a series
    of raids across Baquba and arrested several Iraqis.

    In the town of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of the
    capital, around 1,000 U.S. soldiers and 400 Iraqi police
    launched a major overnight raid to hunt members of a
    militant Wahhabi Muslim cell blamed for attacks on U.S.

    forces.

    Colonel David Hogg of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division
    said U.S. troops detained nine of 11 wanted guerrilla
    leaders and Iraqi police detained 16 of 20 of their
    footsoldiers.

    A large haul of weapons was also seized in the raids.

    "The soldiers that participated in this attack did not
    have a very good New Year's Eve, we had to get some sleep,
    we got started about two in the morning, but it was a very
    successful day and we got a lot of bad operators off the
    streets in Baquba," Lieutenant Colonel William Adamson, the
    task force commander of the city of Baquba, said.


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