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WASHINGTON, May 18, 2006 - Separate incidents in Baghdad and Mosul led to
Iraqi and coalition forces killing or capturing several terrorists operating
in those areas. Coalition forces also disarmed a car bomb in Mosul.

Iraqi police and Task Force Band of Brothers soldiers killed three
terrorists and wounded 10 others in two separate incidents yesterday in
Mosul.

In the first incident, soldiers from 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team
watched as a group of insurgents began burying an improvised explosive
device on a roadway southwest of the city. The troops carefully tracked the
movements of each insurgent before engaging them with small-arms fire. The
terrorists fled the area in waiting vehicles.

Iraqi soldiers from 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division, and
coalition forces identified nine insurgents with gun shot wounds from the
engagement at a local hospital. All nine of the men were treated by doctors
at the hospital and then detained.

One civilian also was wounded and treated at a local civilian hospital.

In the second incident, terrorists attacked three civilians on a highway
outside Mosul shortly after noon. The terrorists chased the civilians'
vehicle in two separate cars, firing into it several times.

U.S. soldiers from the 172nd responded to the gunfire and killed all three
terrorists in one of the cars. Iraqi police pursued the remaining car until
it stopped and the four terrorists fled on foot. Iraqi police captured one
terrorist, who was wounded as he tried to escape.

The three civilians, all wounded, were taken to a nearby civilian hospital
for treatment.

In other news, an elite Iraqi police unit disrupted terrorist activity in
the region when it captured a local terrorist cell leader in a late
afternoon raid south of Baghdad May 16.

Members of the Hillah Special Weapons and Tactics unit conducted the
operation east of Iskandriyah, targeting Salih Hassan Latif al-Janabi, also
known as Abu Sabrin.

Al-Janabi, a local terrorist cell leader, oversees the operations of several
other terrorist cells. His cell is responsible for a counterfeit-document
and -money network as well as for conducting improvised-explosive-device
attacks in the area, U.S. officials said. He also has ties to other known
terrorist leaders.

No injuries or casualties were reported from this incident.

Elsewhere the same day, Task Force Band of Brothers soldiers discovered and
successfully disarmed a car bomb packed with munitions and explosives in
Mosul.

Mosul police officers and U.S. soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade
Combat Team secured the area as an explosives disposal team assessed the
device. The explosives 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.

(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)

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