(EXPLOSIVE HAZARD) IED EXPLOSION RPT (Improvised Rocket Launcher ()) /%%% EOD : %%% INJ/DAM

MND-%%% EVENT (%%%)\012\012UNIT: %%% SBCT\012\012WHO: /%%% EOD (%%%)\012\012WHAT: RPG ATTACK\012\012WHEN: 131046MAY09\012\012WHERE: MC %%%\012\012------------------------------------\012\012TIMELINE:\012\012: ( %%% EOD) REPORTS BEING FIRED ON BY %%% X RPG AT MC . \012\012%%%: AREA CORDONED OFF. EOD REPORTS %%% (IMPROVISED ROCKET LAUNCHER) FOUND. NO INJURIES OR DAMAGE.\012\012: %%% ON SCENE AT EOD LOCATION. /-%%% REQUEST UAV AT MC \012\012: %%% X INDIVIDUALS ON BIKES WERE %%% QUESTIONED BY IA AND IP NEAR THE AREA.\012\012%%%: EOD LEAVES SCENE EN ROUTE .\012\012%%%: EOD RP %%%.\012\012\012------------------------------------\012\012EOD ASSESSMENT:\012\012INITIAL ASSESSMENT, TEAM WAS EN ROUTE %%% WHEN CONVOY TOOK FIRE FROM %%%. TEAM HALTED CONVOY AND PROCEEDED TO SECURE THE SITE. LOCATED THE %%% SITE AND BEGAN CONDUCTING PBA. TEAM LEADER IDENTIFIED ONE LAUNCH TUBE (%%% PIPE) AND APPROXIMATELY %%% OF COMMAND WIRE. NO KIA, NO WIA, NO DAMAGE. ROCKET PASSED BETWEEN %%% AND %%% VEHICLE IN THE CONVOY. ROCKET WAS UNABLE TO BE FOUND. ALL COMPONENTS TURNED OVER TO %%% FOR FURTHER EXPLOITATION. NO FURTHER EXPLOSIVE HAZARDS FOUND.\012\012S2 ASSESSMENT:\012DUE TO THE FACT THAT CF/ISF ELEMENTS DID NOT %%% ANY EVIDENCE IN REGARD TO THE TYPE OF PROJECTILE, OR THE SPECIFIC LOCATION IT WAS FIRED FROM, A SPECIFIED GROUP RESPONSIBLE CANNOT BE REALIZED AT THIS TIME. \012 \012HOWEVER, RECENT REPORTS SUGGEST A RESURGENCE IN THE PARADISE BOYS, AN AQI SUBSIDIARY GEARED AT RECRUITING CHILDREN AND USING THEM IN ATTACKS, WITHIN THE %%% OE. IN MOST INSTANCES THE CHILDREN ARE UNAWARE THAT THEY ARE THE COURIERS OF EXPLOSIVE DEVICES, AND PARADISE BOYS' LEADERSHIP EITHER INSTRUCT THE CHILDREN TO %%% A SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT ITEM NEAR A SPECIFIC SITE, OR THEY REMOTE DETONATE THE DEVICE WHILE IT IS STILL IN THE CHILD'%%% POSSESSION. CHILDREN ARE COERCED INTO THE ORGANIZATION BY THE LURE OF MONEY OR PRESENTS AND A SENSE OF BELONGING. -%%% INF HUMINT COLLECTORS HAVE RECEIVED MULTIPLE REPORTS THAT PARADISE BOYS ELEMENTS ARE MEETING REGULARLY AT A MOSQUE IN FIFTY %%%, AND THIS MAY INDICATE THAT THE ORGANIZATION IS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF PLANNING FOR AN OPERATIONAL PHASE WITHIN %%% WEEKS.\012 \012THIS MORNING IN %%% A CHILD TURNED A 122MM UXO INTO IPS, AND THE EOD ELEMENT THAT RECEIVED RPG OR %%% FIRE WAS EN ROUTE %%% SECURE THE REPORTED UXO. %%% ARE %%% OF THE FACT THAT EVERY TIME A UXO IS TURNED INTO CF/ISF, EOD RESPONDS. CF EOD ELEMENTS ALMOST ALWAYS TAKE THE SAME ROUTE %%% CAMP TAJI TO TRANSIT TO %%%. THUS THE ROUND MAY HAVE BEEN USED BY %%% AS A MEANS TO LURE CF ELEMENTS TO %%% WHEREUPON THEY COULD CONDUCT AN %%%/RPG ATTACK AGAINST THEM, AT A SITE OF THEIR CHOOSING, WHILE THEY TRAVERSED TO THE UXO SITE. \012\012\012SUMMARY:\012\012%%% X RPG ATTACK\012%%% X INJURIES\012%%% X DMG\012\012//CLOSED// %%%