Operation Purple Haze
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Operation Purple Haze | |||||||
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Part of Iraq War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
New Iraqi Army | Iraqi insurgency | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Abboud Qanbar David Petraeus | unknown | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
None | Two caches of homemade explosives detained |
Operation Details
The 3rd Battalion, 5th Brigade,
The homemade explosives, 14 50-lb. bags, were found in an abandoned house along with ball bearings and detonation cord. An explosive ordnance disposal unit conducted a controlled detonation of the one bag of homemade explosives at the site of the discovery. The bag was torn and the explosives were leaking, making the bag unsafe for transportation. All other items in the cache were removed from the house prior to demolition.
In a separate raid during the same operation, a smaller cache of munitions and weapons was discovered. Two machine guns, one AKM assault rifle and a variety of knives, grenades and other small explosives were uncovered in a second abandoned home in the neighborhood.
Participating units
American units
- 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment
Iraqi units
3rd Battalion, 5th Brigade,
See also
- History of Iraq
- Iraq Body Count project
- List of bombings during the Iraq War
- List of coalition military operations of the Iraq War
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Terrorism
- United States military casualties of war
- Violence against academics in post-invasion Iraq
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