Friday, December 31, 2004

U.S. Rounds up 49 Terrorists

Filed under: War by Chad at 10:22 am CST

- Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops rounded up 49 suspected guerrillas near Saddam Hussein’s hometown on Friday, a day after Iraq’s most violent rebel groups warned voters against taking part in crucial elections for a constitutional assembly on Jan. 30.

Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division detained the suspects during a midnight raid in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of Baghdad, codenamed Operation Powder River, the U.S. military said.

The statement did not provide any further details on the operation, which appears to be the latest in a series of anti-insurgency campaigns in the so-called Sunni Triangle in central Iraq. Duluiyah is near Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit.

Operation Powder River? Where does the military come up with these names?

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