Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342
MOSUL, Iraq – Anti-Iraqi forces, emplacing an improvised explosive device, were engaged and killed by Coalition forces March 8, before they had a chance to detonate their roadside bomb.
Three males were observed by Coalition forces digging a hole and laying wire next to a main road near the Al Jededa neighborhood in west Mosul. They were viewed actually emplacing a munition in the ground and covering the tracks of the command wire by smoothing the dirt over top of it.
Coalition helicopters in position nearby immediately responded and engaged the emplacers with rocket fire. Two AIF were killed and three AIF were wounded and taken to the local hospital in Mosul.
Iraqi Police were conducting an investigation and questioning the surviving emplacers.
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