Combat Camera: Multi-National Force Search Operation

Iraqi Brig. Gen. Ra'ad, commander of the 6th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division, and U.S. Lt. Col. Gregory Butts, commander of the 101st Infantry Division's 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, examine false identification cards found on an individual carrying a large amount of U.S. dollars, Oct. 16, 2006. The ID cards were replicas of Iraqi Government ID cards that could be used to gain access into secure areas. The suspect was detained for questioning. U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Brent Williams

Iraqi Security Forces and soldiers of the Multi-National Division – Baghdad seized an 82mm mortar tube and tripod, a case of ammunition and several AK-47 assault rifles during a cordon-and-search operation in Baghdad’s Doura neighborhood, Oct. 16, 2006. The Iraqi National Police detained three individuals suspected of hiding the ordnance in a field behind their neighborhood. U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Brent Williams

Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division's Company A, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, order local Iraqi merchants to unload their crop off a truck to search for contraband during a cordon-and-search operation, Oct 16, 2006. Once the vehicle and the crop were searched, the soldiers helped the citizens replace the produce. U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Brent Williams

Iraqi National Police of the 2nd National Police Division's 6th Brigade talk with local Iraqis in the Doura neighborhood in south Baghdad, Oct 16, 2006. Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division – Baghdad soldiers conducted combined security operations near the Doura Power Plant in support of Operation Together Forward. U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Brent Williams

Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division's Company A, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, accompanied Iraqi National Police from the 2nd National Police Division's 6th Brigade during security operations in Doura, Oct. 16, 2006. The combined forces searched more than 140 houses and a local mosque in search of illegal weapons and contraband. U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Brent Williams

Iraqi Security Forces take the lead during a security operation in Doura, Oct. 8, 2006. U.S. Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, accompanied Iraqi National Police from the 6th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division, during the house-to-house knock and enter mission. The combined forces searched more than 140 houses and a local mosque in search of illegal weapons and contraband. U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Brent Williams

Iraqi policemen of the 6th National Police Division's 2nd Brigade search the rooftop of the Abu Bakr Al Sadeeq Mosque in Baghdad's Doura neighborhood. The search was part of a planned cordon and search operation in southern Baghdad, Oct. 16, 2006. U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Brent Williams

Iraqi National Police summon U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, to a small weapons cache hidden in a trash dump behind a neighborhood in Doura, Oct. 16, 2006. The Iraqi police officers routinely accompany the Soldiers during combined patrols and security operations. U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Brent Williams

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