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Operation Swarmer concluded with 104 suspected insurgents detained and questioned, and 24 weapons caches discovered.
The caches included the following:And Operation Northern Lights began:Six shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles;
More than 350 mortar rounds and three mortar systems;
26 artillery rounds;
A variety of bomb-making materials and other military items;
More than 120 rockets;
More than 3,200 rounds of small-arms ammunition;
86 rocket-propelled grenades and 28 launchers;
Six land mines;
12 hand grenades and 40 rifle grenades; and
34 rifles and machine guns of various types.
All units have safely returned to their garrison locations and forward operating bases preparing for future operations, officials said.In other news from Iraq, elements of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, found five weapons cache sites west of Baghdad yesterday. The caches contained 17 pressure plate initiators, 18 106 mm heat rounds, 400 blasting caps, 20 radios with timers, 40 artillery rounds of various sizes and a large amount of .50-caliber rounds.
About 1,400 Iraqi and Coalition Forces kicked off Operation Northern Lights Wednesday to disrupt anti-Iraqi forces and destroy terrorist caches in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad.And Operation Scorpion began:The joint and combined operation began with Soldiers of the 6th Iraqi Army Division, and U.S. Marines of the 1st Marine Regiment moving to blocking positions by ground. 10th Mountain Division Soldiers then air assaulted onto the objective to conduct a cordon and search.
By late afternoon, Soldiers from the 6th Iraqi Army Div. discovered five weapons caches containing a machinegun, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and grenade, AK-47 assault rifles, thousands of PKC and .50 caliber machine gun rounds, two boxes of gunpowder, an Iraqi police jacket, tank and artillery rounds, blasting caps, pressure plate initiators, and 20 Motorola radio initiators. They also detained a suspected terrorist near one of the caches.
At another cache site, terrorists wounded one Iraqi policeman and a child with small-arms fire. Iraqi soldiers returned fire, wounding and capturing one terrorist. Coalition personnel treated the wounded.
The combined forces continue to search for terrorists and bomb-making materials. So far Iraqi and Coalition Forces have detained two persons of high-value and 16 suspected terrorists. The operation is based on intelligence including local tips.
KIRKUK , Iraq – Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division are conducting combined offensive operations in and around Kirkuk March 24, simultaneously searching five villages in the region for suspected terrorists.Bill Roggio notes:The operation is being supported by 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.
Operation Scorpion began at 4 a.m. with Soldiers from 1st and 5th battalions of the Iraqi Army's 2nd Brigade systematically moving through the villages, searching for selected targets based on Iraqi-generated intelligence. 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment is supporting operations at each of the five villages.
The operation was developed and planned by Maj. Gen. Anwar, commander of the Iraqi 2nd Brigade, and his staff.
This is the second major operation developed and conducted by the Iraqi 2nd Brigade in the past two months.
The operational tempo in central and northern Iraq has increased. Scorpion is the seventh multi-battalioncounterinsurgency operation launched in the last ten days, and follows Swarmer (Samarra, March 16-23), Raging Bull (Haditha Triad, March 21), Normandy (Ramadi, March 21), Iron Strike (Salman Pak, March 21), Northen Lights (Abu Ghraib, March 23), and an unnamed operation near Balad (March 18-23).
