Unit meets with success nabbing insurgents in Tarmiyah

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Staff Sgt. Phillip St. Pierre takes notes about a suspect’s home while other soldiers log evidence in Daood Hassan, Iraq. Company A, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment works like a police investigations unit, building up a case against those they suspect of insurgent activity.


Unit meets with success nabbing insurgents in Tarmiyah
By James Warden, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, October 15, 2008

TARMIYAH, Iraq — Company A, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment is catching insurgent leaders at such a dizzying rate that it’s difficult just to keep track of who is the most wanted person they’re targeting.

They captured the brigade’s No. 1 target Tuesday, and captured the No. 2 man (who was No. 3 just the day before) on a raid early Wednesday in Daood Hassan. They’ve captured so many insurgents at this point that unqualified people are taking over the cells.

"They’re inexperienced and their attacks are not effective," said Sgt. Phong Le, the team leader for a Tactical Humint (human intelligence) Team with the company. "They’re pretty much on their knees now."

Rumors around Company A’s home in Tarmiyah, Iraq, north of Baghdad, say the insurgents have banded together in a "Retaliation Brigade" to take vengeance on the coalition forces. But so far that appears to just be talk.

Here is how the company has targeted Tarmiyah’s insurgent networks:


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