Grinder
12 August 2003, 14:26
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2003 - Coalition forces continued operations against Baath
Party loyalists, the Fedayeen Saddam and former regime supporters with raids,
patrols and captures throughout Iraq, coalition officials said today.
Combined Joint Task Force 7 spokesman Army Col. Guy Shields said during a
Baghdad press conference that coalition forces conducted 17 raids, 1,888
patrols and detained 80 people.
In the U.S. 4th Infantry Division area to the north of Baghdad, soldiers seized
arms caches containing 10 rocket-propelled grenades, 162 hand grenades, four
shoulder-launched air defense missiles, one heavy machine gun, one air defense
artillery radar system, several AK-47s, 50 pounds of TNT and various other
ammunition, Shields said.
The division also acted on a tip from an Iraqi citizen and confiscated five 60
mm mortar rounds, three AK-47s, a number of loaded AK-47 magazines, a crate of
7.62 mm ammunition, one mortar sight and grenade fuses in Baqubah. They
detained five individuals in the raid.
In Mosul, troopers of the 101st Airborne Division discovered an arms cache
consisting of 50 120 mm mortar rounds. Explosive ordnance disposal personnel
destroyed the rounds.
In addition to combat actions, the coalition is also making progress on the
reconstruction front. Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division in the northern
part of Iraq assisted in the reopening of the Mosul nursing home, Shields said.
"We used $10,000 from the Commander's Emergency Relief Program," he said. "The
commander provided the money and some of the manpower, and together with a
group -- a youth group called the Voice of the Youth of Mosul -- they completed
the repairs to the nursing home. This included rebuilding the walls, patching
the roof and installing air conditioning."
Shields dispelled rumors that the coalition was rationing water to coalition
members. "There is not a water shortage," he said. "Right now every soldier is
getting three of the one-and-a-half liter bottles of water along with as much
water as they want out of our larger storage containers. The water containers
are checked every day to make sure that they're good to go."
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2003 - Coalition forces continued operations against Baath
Party loyalists, the Fedayeen Saddam and former regime supporters with raids,
patrols and captures throughout Iraq, coalition officials said today.
Combined Joint Task Force 7 spokesman Army Col. Guy Shields said during a
Baghdad press conference that coalition forces conducted 17 raids, 1,888
patrols and detained 80 people.
In the U.S. 4th Infantry Division area to the north of Baghdad, soldiers seized
arms caches containing 10 rocket-propelled grenades, 162 hand grenades, four
shoulder-launched air defense missiles, one heavy machine gun, one air defense
artillery radar system, several AK-47s, 50 pounds of TNT and various other
ammunition, Shields said.
The division also acted on a tip from an Iraqi citizen and confiscated five 60
mm mortar rounds, three AK-47s, a number of loaded AK-47 magazines, a crate of
7.62 mm ammunition, one mortar sight and grenade fuses in Baqubah. They
detained five individuals in the raid.
In Mosul, troopers of the 101st Airborne Division discovered an arms cache
consisting of 50 120 mm mortar rounds. Explosive ordnance disposal personnel
destroyed the rounds.
In addition to combat actions, the coalition is also making progress on the
reconstruction front. Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division in the northern
part of Iraq assisted in the reopening of the Mosul nursing home, Shields said.
"We used $10,000 from the Commander's Emergency Relief Program," he said. "The
commander provided the money and some of the manpower, and together with a
group -- a youth group called the Voice of the Youth of Mosul -- they completed
the repairs to the nursing home. This included rebuilding the walls, patching
the roof and installing air conditioning."
Shields dispelled rumors that the coalition was rationing water to coalition
members. "There is not a water shortage," he said. "Right now every soldier is
getting three of the one-and-a-half liter bottles of water along with as much
water as they want out of our larger storage containers. The water containers
are checked every day to make sure that they're good to go."