Saturday, March 25, 2006

Suspects Captured; Weapons Caches Found / Iraqi Police Class Graduates

A combined U. S. -Iraqi patrol detained a terrorist near Kirkuk yesterday, and U. S. soldiers captured two improvised-explosive-device triggermen near Balad, Iraq, March 23, military officials in Iraq reported.

In other action, U. S. soldiers found two weapons cache south of Baghdad yesterday, and Iraqi soldiers detained a suspected terrorist and uncovered a weapons cache in Baghdad March 23.

In Kirkuk, soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division, detained a terror suspect yesterday after Bastogne soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, discovered an IED during a combined combat patrol.
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One Iraqi Police Class Graduates, Another Reports for Training.
One newly graduated 196-member Iraqi police unit returned here for duty yesterday, while another group -- about 220 Iraqi police recruits -- left here and arrived safely at the Baghdad Iraqi Police Basic Training Academy yesterday.

"We are the future of Iraq, each and every one of us. We believe in our cause," said a newly appointed Iraqi policeman, as he stepped off the bus at the Ramadi Glass Factory, where the policemen were greeted by Iraqi army and coalition forces yesterday. "The conditions we are living in now, with the insurgency and terrorist around us, is no way to live life. We will make a difference for our sons and daughters." View the original version of this web page.

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