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By Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 17, 2005 — Iraqi Police Forces stopped a kidnapping and fought back an attack by anti-Iraqi forces in two separate incidents this week, according to officials with the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq’s Civilian Police Assistance Training Team.
Officers from the Jisr Dialah Police Station in Baghdad stopped a suspicious vehicle outside the station Feb. 15. Hearing a voice from the trunk, they discovered a man tied up and gagged inside who later told authorities he was hijacked. The suspect tried to run, but officers caught him after a short chase on foot. They arrested the suspect on charges of motor vehicle theft and kidnapping. The victim, who was not identified, was treated at the police station and released.

On Feb. 16, a group of Iraqi police led by Col. Ali encountered small arms fire from several anti-Iraqi forces in Baqubah who were also firing rocket-propelled grenades. Col. Ali called for assistance from U.S. forces to help clear enemy shooters from the roof of a building, and establish a security perimeter around the area while the Iraqi police officers cleared a house where the weapons were fired from.

Inside, the officers discovered several weapons and a stash of ammunition, including two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 12 rocket-propelled grenade rounds, two grenades, a mortar tube and about 40 mortar rounds. They didn’t find any enemy forces inside the house, or in four other houses they searched. The Iraqi police officers reported killing one insurgent, capturing another and wounding one during the fight.


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