At approximately 6:35 p.m., soldiers from the 11th Iraqi Army Division discovered six rocket-propelled grenades and two explosively formed projectiles in New Baghdad.
Iraqi Army soldiers from the 24th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, while on patrol, discovered 32 81 mm mortar rounds west of Baghdad at approximately 7 p.m.
At approximately 7 p.m., Iraqi National policemen from 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st National Police Division, discovered a weapons cache in the courtyard of the Imam Ali Mosque in the al-Ghadier neighborhood of Baghdad.The NPs found five explosively formed projectiles, two improvised explosive devices, five rocket rails, three grenades and numerous rounds of various ammunitions.
Soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, provided a security cordon outside the mosque as the NPs seized the cache.
At approximately 9:20 p.m., Special Groups criminals fired upon a barrier emplacement team in Sadr City. An aerial weapons team was called in support of troops in contact and fired one Hellfire missile, eliminating the criminal threat.
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, currently attached to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, and Iraqi Army soldiers from the 11th Iraqi Army Division, were attacked with rocket-propelled grenades in Sadr City.
Iraqi Army soldiers engaged the dismounted criminals with RPGs, and soldiers from 1-64 AR fired two M1A2 Abrams tank rounds, killing six criminals.
At approximately 2:50 a.m., an aerial weapons team witnessed criminals emplacing an improvised explosive device in New Baghdad. The AWT fired two Hellfire missiles and killed three criminals.
“Iraqi Security Forces and U.S. soldiers are working side by side to eliminate the criminal elements, discovering and seizing weapons caches and capturing or killing criminals involved in violent attacks against innocent Iraqi civilians and Iraqi and Coalition forces,” said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff, MND-B and 4th Inf. Div. “They put their lives on the line daily for the Iraqi people; they are all heroes.”