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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Good News from Iraq: 17 Jan 2008

From MNF-I, Three IEDS found, destroyed in Adwaniyah.

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division Center Soldiers removed three improvised explosive devices from a road in Adwaniyah Jan. 16.

While on patrol, Soldiers with 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, currently attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Inf. Div., discovered a pressure-plate IED consisting of two 80 mm mortars and three three-liter bottles of unknown bulk explosives.

While investigating the IED, the team discovered two additional pressureplate IEDs.

Those IEDs were linked to a total of four 57 mm mortar rounds.

All IEDS and components were detonated in a controlled detonation by an explosives ordnance disposal team.