Hmmm good stuff, sad its not mentioned anywhere in the regular news. I did see where a car bomb was exploded killing 17 and injuring dozens, but didn't see any mention of the below story. LOL wonder why?
SOLDIERS CAPTURE TERRORIST, DISRUPT IMPROVISED-EXPLOSIVE DEVICE EMPLACEMENTS
BAGHDAD, Iraq – At approximately 7:30 a.m. May 16 Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers observed three terrorists with two bongo trucks emplacing a roadside bomb on a highway southwest of Baghdad.
Attack helicopters destroyed both bongo trucks, killing one terrorist, as another fled to a nearby home. Coalition Forces cordoned off the area and detained the man.
After searching the impact area, Soldiers discovered two AK-47 rifles, a rack system, a set of night vision goggles, six 155 mm rounds, a car battery, detonation cord, a pressure plate mechanism and a long-range transmitter base.
Coalition Forces are currently searching for the third terrorist. The wounded terrorist received medical treatment prior to being detained for questioning.
Iraqi Courts are working!!
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The Central Criminal Court of Iraq convicted 14 security detainees May 3 through May 9 for various crimes including possessing illegal weapons and joining terrorist groups.
The trial court found Ammar Fat’hi Hassan Hussein guilty of violating Article 194 of the Iraqi Penal Code for joining terrorist groups to endanger innocent people’s lives and to unsettle the stability and security of Iraq. They sentenced him to life imprisonment. Coalition Forces apprehended him for being a cell leader in Abu Talha’s Mosul Terror Cell. Three Iraqis who had been tried and convicted of crimes related to their membership in the MTC testified at the trial against the defendant.
The trial court found Ra’ad Dawood Salman Al Zobai guilty of violating Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 3 for possession of illegal weapons and sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment. Coalition Forces apprehended him after discovering a weapons cache in his home where they found 1,500 rounds of 7.72 mm ammunition, 50 AK-47 magazines, a large quantity of soap, soldering irons, an electronic multimeter test set, and Iraqi police uniforms and documents. Coalition Forces searched the yard surrounding the house and discovered timers, batteries, blasting caps, thirty feet of detonation cord, five grenades, five pounds of C-4 explosive, bags of gunpowder, small arms ammunition, one artillery round, one RPK machine gun and three RPG launchers.
The trial court found Subhi Esmail Trad, Ahmad Eubayid Sumair, Khudir Abd Al Hamid Alwan, Auda Kalbush Mutuk, Saladin Subhi Jubayir, Hussin Silabi Authman, Rid Yusif Yakuh, Hussein Karim Muhammad, Sahir Hamadallah Adab, Abid Ibrahim Muhammad and Yasir Ismail Ibrihim guilty of violating Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 3 for possession of illegal weapons and sentenced each of them to life imprisonment. Coalition Forces apprehended them after raiding a remote terrorist training camp and finding two Draganov sniper rifles, 200 armor-piercing rounds, four machine guns, one RPG launcher, 11 RPG rounds, five AK-47 rifles with seven loaded magazines, two 9 mm pistols, hundreds of rounds of small arms and artillery ammunition, body armor, night vision goggles, $10,000 in U.S. currency and four wired cordless phone base stations.
The trial court found Mohammed Kamel Mussa guilty of violating Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 3 for possession of illegal weapons and sentenced him to six years imprisonment. Coalition Forces apprehended him after finding 60 sticks of PE-4 explosive and two anti-tank mines inside his residence and buried in his backyard. The defendant confessed in writing at the investigative hearing and at trial to the material facts.
Upon conviction, all defendants are turned over to the Iraqi Corrections Service to serve their sentences.
To date, the CCCI has held 1053 trials of insurgents suspected of anti-Iraqi and anti-Coalition activities threatening the security of Iraq and targeting MNF-I. These proceedings have resulted in 948 individual convictions with sentences ranging up to death.
And this one was very interesting, since they printed the one about the car bomb that exploded, nothing about this one though..
TIKRIT, Iraq – Task Force Band of Brothers Soldiers discovered and successfully disarmed a car bomb packed with munitions and explosives in the northern city of Mosul May 16.
Mosul police officers and Soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team secured the area as an explosive ordnance disposal team carefully assessed the device.
The EOD team safely removed 14 large artillery rounds, a rocket-propelled grenade warhead, a large gas can and more than 100 pounds of bulk explosives from the vehicle.
For those un-educated in such things, thats a hell of a lot of explosives in one vehicle and would cause a LOT of damage had it gone off. But it didn't and of course because it did not kill anyone, it is not news. Says who?? This is why 70% of Americans are so stupid as to think Iraq is not working. Poor misinformed souls.
