PRESS RELEASE | April 8, 2008
Aircraft drops bomb on criminal mortar site
By None , MNC-I

BAGHDAD (Apr. 7, 2008) – A U.S. Air Force F-16 dropped a low-yield bomb on a mortar launching site after a Multi-National Division – Baghdad observation team saw criminals emplacing mortars in the New Baghdad district at 2:30p.m. April 7.

A joint security station had reported receiving a mortar round near their location in the New Baghdad district.

After a second 82 mm round impacted near the JSS, an aerial surveillance team determined the two mortars’ point of origin. Iraqi Security Forces called in a U.S. Army Apache air weapons team that engaged and killed the mortar crew with a Hellfire missile. AnF-16 then dropped a low-yield bomb on the mortar site.

“Based on a review of the surveillance video we do not believe there were any civilian casualties as a result of this attack,” said Col. Bill Buckner, spokesman for Multi-National Corps – Iraq.

More information will be released as it becomes available.

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