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Iraqi security forces and U.S. soldiers prevented terrorist attacks and seized weapons Jan. 6 in operations in Iraq, military officials reported.
Iraqi national police and U.S. soldiers spotted a magnetic “sticky” bomb attached to the undercarriage of a vehicle in the Hadar community of southern Baghdad’s Rashid district. The bomb exploded shortly after police evacuated an Iraqi family to a safe distance.
No one was injured in the blast, but the vehicle was destroyed.
A tip from an Iraqi civilian led Iraqi soldiers to a pipe bomb planted inside a house in southern Baghdad’s Saydiyah community. The soldiers transported the bomb to their headquarters, where an Iraqi explosives ordnance disposal team disabled the device.
Elsewhere, Iraqi and coalition forces seized a weapons cache Jan. 6 west of Beijat in Diyala province that included 65 rocket-propelled grenade rounds, eight shotgun shells, five packages of explosives, three crush wires with battery packs and an automatic weapon.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Story by American Forces Press Service
| Date Taken: | 01.07.2009 |
| Date Posted: | 07.03.2025 18:57 |
| Story ID: | 520179 |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, US |
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