The Scouts from 1-36 in Friedberg.
The man gave no resistance and said nothing.
“You,” the sergeant told him, “are the lucky winner of the Blindfold and Gag Contest,” developed, he said, by the 1st Armored Division during its service in Baghdad.
The troops led the man to a trailer hitched to a Humvee and the scouts headed back to their battalion compound.
The man was held for further questioning.
“It was a fleeting target,” Kreis said later that day. “We knew where he was. The level above us said it was credible, so we went out.”
Pulling out just before 4 a.m., Livingston summed up the night’s events: the house-to-house search and the raids they’d just made.
“This was a successful evening,” he said. “We killed two bad dudes — needless to say, they killed themselves.
“And we may have — that’s subject to investigation — may have captured another bad dude.”
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