Saturday, March 18, 2006

Operation Swarmer Update

From Defenselink:

Iraqi security forces and U.S. servicemembers participating in Operation Swarmer and other combined operations continued to capture hidden terrorist weapons caches, while detaining and processing terrorist suspects yesterday, military officials in Iraq reported.
Operation Swarmer, an ongoing, methodical search of a 10-mile-by-10-mile area in the Samarra region, has netted six weapons caches and roughly 50 terrorist suspects, officials said. The weapons caches included mortar rounds, rocket-propelled grenades, rockets, artillery rounds and a significant amount of other bomb-making materials for improvised explosive devices.
Seventeen of the roughly 50 detainees were released after questioning and the others remain in custody.
No casualties were reported among Iraqi security forces or coalition units, officials said.