Al-Qaeda Financial Infrastructure Pressured
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
BAGHDAD — Coalition forces captured two wanted men and detained two additional suspects during operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq’s financial infrastructure around Baghdad July 22-23.
An alleged AQI financier was detained with one additional suspect during an operation near Samarra, 110 kilometers north of Baghdad. The man is assessed to be involved with known terrorists, including one killed during an operation May 6.
Wednesday, Coalition forces captured a suspected member of a kidnapping cell during a precision operation in Baghdad. Another man was detained in the city for his alleged ties to AQI leaders in Iraq and other countries.
“By targeting these networks, Iraqi and Coalition forces are continuing to chip away at AQI’s ability to conduct acts of indiscriminate violence or to impose an extremist ideology upon the people of Iraq,†said Cmdr. Scott Rye, MNF-I spokesman.