MND-B AWTs engage rocket team and heavily armed criminals
Multi-National Division – Baghdad aerial weapons teams conducted operations against criminal elements in Baghdad May 10.
Following an indirect-fire attack in central Baghdad, an MND-B AWT made positive identification of a rocket rail at the point of origin in the Sadr City district of Baghdad used to launch the attack.
The AWT engaged a criminal element on site at approximately 6:40 a.m. with two Hellfire missiles. One criminal was killed, and the rocket rail and a shack were destroyed. Secondary explosions at the site also indicate that illegal weapons also were destroyed.
At approximately 10 a.m., an AWT observed five criminals east of Al Hajj Jabr in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad. The criminals were heavily armed with a rocket-propelled grenade, two PKC light machineguns and two AK-47 rifles. The AWT fired two Hellfire missiles and killed all five men.
MND-B kill criminals, seize, destroy weapons
Multi-National Division – Baghdad soldiers killed four criminals engaged in attacks against Coalition forces, seized two caches and destroyed illegal weapons in operations across Baghdad May 10.
At approximately 8:45 a.m., MND-B soldiers discovered a weapons cache in Mansour containing multiple mortar rounds and a mortar bipod.
At approximately 2:45 p.m., soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, discovered a weapons cache in west Rashid containing an unknown type of rocket, an RPK machinegun, an RPK barrel and more than 350 RPK rounds.
At approximately 3 p.m., soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, killed three armed criminals with small-arms fire. A tank also engaged after the soldiers were attacked by criminals while on a barrier emplacement mission in Sadr City.
At approximately 3:30 p.m., soldiers destroyed a mortar tube and launch site after an aerial weapons team identified it in Sadr City.
At approximately 5 p.m., soldiers with 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division tank engaged and killed one criminal on a rooftop in Sadr City.
