Coalition forces killed one terrorist and detained 13 suspected terrorists during raids Wednesday to disrupt al-Qaeda in IraqÂ’s ability to operate in central Iraq.Coalition forces raided several buildings southeast of Baqubah during an operation targeting an al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leader in the area. When one man refused to follow the interpreterÂ’s instructions and moved to retrieve a weapon, Coalition forces engaged the man in self-defense, killing him. KAPOW! "We said 'Halt!', dammit!"
The ground forces detained two suspected terrorists during the raid and found weapons and military-style assault vests on scene.
Coalition forces conducted two operations to disrupt car-bombing networks in the Tigris River Valley. In Tikrit, the ground forces captured an individual believed to operate a car-bombing cell and allegedly associated with Haytham Sabah al-Badri, the mastermind behind the Samarra Golden Mosque bombing, who was killed in a Coalition operation Aug. 2. North of Taji, Coalition forces captured a suspected car-bombing operative from the Baghdad network. Four additional suspected terrorists were detained in the two operations.
Coalition forces further disrupted the Baghdad terrorist network when they detained five suspected terrorists during an operation targeting foreign terrorist facilitators on the south side of the city. “Our operations will continue to target both terrorist leaders and their operatives,” said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. “We want to ensure al-Qaeda in Iraq remains unable to recover from the damage inflicted by Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces.”