July 10, 2007
Posted by Claire
Tipsters lead to capture south Baghdad’s most wanted terrorist, cache
I just found this bit of great news on RN. The article is located at Operation Iraqi Freedom’s website, and is excerpted below.
Tipsters lead to capture south Baghdad’s most wanted terrorist, cache
Tuesday, 10 July 2007Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342(Excerpt)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070710-14
July 10, 2007Tipsters lead to capture south Baghdad’s most wanted terrorist, cache
Multi-National Division – Center PAOAL-DHOUR, Iraq — With two well-timed phone calls, Iraqi civilians made some Soldiers’ day July 9.
The first tipster called Troop C, 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., and alerted them to a cache south of the village of Al-Dhour, Iraq, south of Baghdad.
The troop responded, located the buried weapons, and was only five minutes into the process of digging them up when they got another call.
A man claimed he had the 2nd BCT’s top high-value target and would deliver him to coalition custody. The man and Capt. Adam Sawyer, Troop C commander, agreed on a pickup site.
The Soldiers hastily re-buried the cache and moved out, and when the vehicle arrived, they stopped it and took the most wanted man and two other men into custody.
Some of the Soldiers were still able to see the cache from their vantage point – and were surprised to see a civilian pickup truck stop there and begin hastily loading the weapons into the bed of the truck.
They engaged the vehicle with an M-240 machine gun, and the men tried to flee, but the Troop C Soldiers detained them all – and called an explosive ordnance disposal team to destroy the weapons.
Sawyer a native of Reading, Penn., was jubilant about the operation.
“All of this was possible because of sources we’ve developed, through local-national engagements and working with the residents of the area,” he said. “It’s our work with the people in these areas, our relations with them, paying off.”
(snip) Rest of Article here
2 Comments
July 12, 2007
Hi Claire… just found this, through ilja’s blog link at RN. Looks cools, haven’t checked it all out yet.
Sorry you’re feeling down today. It happends… midpoint in a deployment sucks, you’re stuck in the rut, it seems like he’ll never be done and it’s too long until you’re together again to really start counting the days. Hang tough, it will pass whether you are stressed about it or not, so might as well just ride it out… know what I mean?
Sorry about the insurance BS, too… typical, unfortunately, so you just have to sort of get used to it. I can’t believe they won’t take his POA, that’s a total pain. Thank goodness most places are great about it, because otherwise things would just cease to function… I always kind of get testy about the “dependant” thing… hey, he trusts me to raise his kid and drive his car, I can turn off the power to a house I no longer live in without his written permission already…
I hope the time gets easier, it will help once he can call. Does he have a laptop? While TIm was in TBS (Warrant Officer school, and I was still in Okinawa he had a laptop and just used the free hours from AOL (they will extend them repeatedly until they hope you forget to call…) and we could email and chat (this was 1999, we used ICQ’s private chatrooms)… had some… interesting “conversations”… not so easy with a toddler around, but she has to sleep sometime, right!
Andria
July 12, 2007
Hi Andria! Nice to see you here!
Yes, when Bryan gets to OCS he will have a laptop and a cell phone! WOOT! I feel bad for even complaining because I know that there are wives who have gone and will go much longer without seeing their husbands. By the time all of this is over and are actually PCS’d I bet it will be close to a year though. The distance is hard, but being cut off from all contact outside of letters is difficult. We are managing though. I am very communicative person, so it has been hardest on me. Bryan can be an intravert, so he is probably ok with it more than I am, but I know he still misses talking to us.
I guess it’s all relative isn’t it? I think that having Mike deployed at the same time makes Bryan’s absence even harder for me. I am learning though that I am not alone in the least. Not only do I have other military wives (such as yourself and Butterfly Wife), but I have an absolutely awesome Church. They have been there for me in ways I never even knew that they would or could be! So, if I wasn’t going through this I would never have known just how awesome they all are — blessings abound. I just have to open my eyes — no close them in prayer a little more.
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