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Sapulpa Daily Herald, Thursday, May 31, 2007 PA(»h FIVE
U.S. forces continue to search for missing Briton soldiers
By S1NAN SAI AHH)I)I\
Associated Press
American forces pressed
on Thursday with the search
for five kidnapped Britons,
and a procession of mourners,
some of them women wailing
and beating their chests,
marched through Sadr City
behind a small bus carrying
the coffins of two people who
police said were killed in a
U.S. helicopter strike before
dawn.
The U.S. military did not
immediately respond to a
request for comment on the
alleged attack in the second
day of a search for the
Britons who were abducted
from a Finance Ministry data
processing building in eastern
Baghdad on Tuesday.
A U.S. military statement,
however, said U.S. and Iraqi
forces had arrested two
‘•members of the secret cell
terrorist network" on
Thursday in Sadr City. There
was no mention of fatalities.
Associated Press
Television news video tape
from Sadr City showed the
coffins of the victims atop a
small bus with men and
women walking behind, cry-
ing. A young boy could be
seen sitting next to the coffins
on the bus.
A car near where the
attack happened was punc-
tured with big holes as it hit
by an airstrike.
A police officer in Sadr
City, who refused to allow
use of his name because he
feared retribution, said the
helicopter hit a house and car
at 4:30 a.m.. killing two eld-
erly people sleeping on the
roof of their home, a common
practice in the extreme heat
of Iraq through late spring
and summer. The officer said
a 13-year-old boy was
injured.
Also in Sadr City raids,
which the U.S. has been con-
ducting with a select unit of
Iraqi army forces, Shiite cler-
ic Abdul-Zahra al-Suwaidi
claimed his home was raided
and ransacked by American
forces at 3 a m. Thursday.
Al-Suwaidi, who runs the
Sadr City political office of
radical cleric Muqtada al-
Sadr, said he was sleeping
elsewhere at the time of the
raid, expecting that he would
be targeted. He said his home
was badly damaged and a
small amount of money was
taken.
The U.S. military also did
not immediately comment on
al-Suwaidi claim.
Dozens of U.S. Humvees
and Bradley fighting vehicles
had taken up positions around
Sadr City at nightfall
Wednesday.
The Britons were snatched
from a Finance Ministry
facility in a mock police raid
that Iraqi officials said was
carried out by the Mahdi
Army Shiite militia.
A secret incident report
about the abductions — writ-
ten by Najwa Fatih-Allah,
director general of the
Finance Ministry’s data pro-
cessing center, where the
Britons were seized — quotes
Gen. David Petraeus. the U.S.
commander in Iraq, as saying
the Mahdi Army "will be pro-
foundly sorry" if it carried
out the assault.
Much of the Mahdi Army
militia is said to be loyal to
radical Shiite cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr. who resurfaced last
week after nearly four
months in hiding, apparently
in Iran, and demanded U.S.
troops leave Iraq.
Al-Sadr’s return appeared
to be partly an effort to regain
control over his militia,
which had begun fragment-
ing. It was unclear whether
the 33-year-old cleric would
have been aware of or con-
doned the kidnapping of the
five British citizens — four
bodyguards and an employee
of a management consulting
firm.
When al-Sadr went under-
ground at the start of the
U.S.-led security crackdown
on Baghdad 15 weeks ago. he
ordered his militia off the
streets to prevent conflict
with American forces.
Nevertheless, his return likely
complicates U.S. efforts to
crack down on violence and
broker political compromise
in the country, another group.
Falih-Allah’s report to
Finance Minister Bayan Jabr
revealed key new details
ah..ul the attack. Portions of
the report were read to The
Associated Press on the tele-
phone by a government offi-
cial who did so on condition
of anonymity because the
document was not for public
distribution.
The report said four men
in civilian clothing appeared
at the center about 10:45 a.m.
Tuesday — 15 minutes before
the kidnapping. The account
said the men claimed they
were from the government
anti-fraud commission and
looked through each room in
the center, then quickly left
the building.
At about 11 a.m. dozens of
men in army and police uni-
forms. the report said, burst
into the building, disarmed
guards and went directly into
the room where the five
Britons were working. The
five were seized and rushed
out of the building to 19 wait-
ing four-wheel-drive vehi-
cles. The convoy then drove
away to the east.
The five kidnapped
Britons included four body-
guards working for the
Montreal-based security firm
Garda World and one employ-
ee of BearingPoint. a U.S.-
based management consult-
ing firm.
The U.S. military late
Wednesday reported the
STAGE
deaths of three more soldiers,
two killed in a roadside
bombing and one who died of
a non-combat cause. The
bombing victims died
Wednesday, the third soldier
on Tuesday. Their deaths
raised to 119 the number of
soldiers killed this month, the
third-deadliest month of the
war for U.S. troops.
In Washington. Brig. Gen.
Perry Wiggins, deputy direc-
tor of operations for the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, said the mili-
tary believed a helicopter that
crashed Monday north of
Baghdad was brought down
by small-arms fire. The
Islamic Slate of Iraq, an al-
Qaida front group, has
claimed responsibility.
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