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| Iraq |
| 4th ID’s Activities |
| 2004-01-27 |
| TIKRIT, Iraq - During the evening of Jan. 25, four individuals in an automobile attempted to breach a barrier wall outside of the Rasheed Bank in Kirkuk. One of the people in the vehicle fired an automatic weapon at the building. Bank security guards returned fire and killed one of the attackers in the automobile and wounded two others. The fourth person fled the scene on foot carrying an AK-47. Iraqi Police and bank security searched the area for the attacker but were unable to find him. The wounded were taken to the hospital in Kirkuk for treatment. Soldiers from B Company, 299th Engineer Battalion raided a house in Mukayshifa at approximately 1 a.m. Jan. 25 looking for the owner of a nearby farmhouse where soldiers had previously confiscated 191 MK-1 hand grenades. The soldiers captured the targeted individual along with his son, who was also suspected. While on patrol 5 km east of Dibs during the afternoon of Jan. 25, soldiers from 1st Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment discovered a weapons cache consisting of 300 120 mm mortar rounds. The rounds are believed to have been in place before Operation Iraqi Freedom began and there was no indication that anyone had used the cache recently. Combat engineers destroyed the mortars in place after determining that the munitions were unstable. |
| Posted by:Chuck Simmins |