Baghdad Operations Continue

U.S. and Iraqi security forces continued search and clearing operations in Baghdad, while other coalition and Iraqi security forces discovered and destroyed several enemy weapons caches, officials said.

Nearly 1,600 U.S. and Iraqi security forces teamed up for a second day of anti-terrorist operations in Baghdad’s Mansour district, officials said. During this sweep, U.S. soldiers with the 2nd Infantry Division’s 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team rescued a kidnap victim. The soldiers also found a weapons cache that yielded several AK-47 rifles, ammunition, mortar rounds and other ordnance.

Also today, U.S. troops operating northwest of Taji arrested seven suspected al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists and destroyed an enemy weapons cache during two raids, officials said, and U.S. soldiers detained five more suspected terrorists in Mosul during another raid today.