Articles 10.12.2004

Several news agencies, including CNN.com and The Washington Post report that Iraqi National Guard and U.S. Forces raided seven mosques in the Ramadi area on 10.12.2004 "following an upsurge in the use of mosques for insurgent activity." Both articles indicate that "Marines and troops" under the 1st Marine Division (the Division under which the 2nd BCT operates) supported Iraqi National Guard forces in the operations. There is further information on the Multi-National Force of Iraq media page here and here. Following the operations, a top Sunni cleric was arrested. These events follow a bombing of a mosque on 10.11.2004 in the nearby town of Hit after insurgents fired on Marines from the Mosque.
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An article in the Washington Post from 10.04.2004 examines the insurgency in Iraq following the offensive in Samarra. Several references are given to events in Fallujah, Habbaniya, and Ramadi.