WEBVTT 00:00.040 --> 00:03.240 a car bomb avi bed right up next to 00:03.240 --> 00:05.910 this mosque and the imam of the mosque 00:05.910 --> 00:08.340 called us . And he also called the M . 00:08.340 --> 00:11.230 O . I . Forces and we both came out and 00:11.230 --> 00:13.840 we secured the area . We got our E . O . 00:13.840 --> 00:16.062 T . E . O . D . R . Explosive ordinance 00:16.062 --> 00:18.770 demolition teams out here and they 00:18.780 --> 00:20.947 detonated the car bomb in a controlled 00:20.947 --> 00:23.250 way . It still caused minor damage to 00:23.250 --> 00:25.950 the mosque but it's all been repaired . 00:25.950 --> 00:28.061 And the good thing is that nobody was 00:28.061 --> 00:30.140 hurt and it did some damage of the 00:30.140 --> 00:33.400 buildings over here in terms of getting 00:33.400 --> 00:36.600 people into to rebuild what kinds of 00:36.610 --> 00:38.666 what kinds of things that due to the 00:38.666 --> 00:41.470 relationship . Well , I mean it was it 00:41.480 --> 00:45.070 wasn't just us but it was the moai 00:45.070 --> 00:47.181 commandos that were out here securing 00:47.181 --> 00:49.390 the point with us and they were out 00:49.390 --> 00:51.470 here the next day when we started to 00:51.470 --> 00:53.581 rebuild them off . So it really was a 00:53.581 --> 00:55.359 team effort and that builds the 00:55.359 --> 00:57.570 confidence not only of the Shia who go 00:57.570 --> 00:59.737 to this mosque but the Sunnis who live 00:59.737 --> 01:02.770 in this area as well . Um And it was it 01:02.770 --> 01:04.714 was a good example of how both the 01:04.714 --> 01:08.140 american coalition forces and the M . Y . 01:08.150 --> 01:10.380 I . S . F . Forces work together . And 01:10.380 --> 01:12.547 as both shared the dangers of this car 01:12.547 --> 01:14.602 bomb and both work together and make 01:14.602 --> 01:16.658 the situation better . And now we've 01:16.658 --> 01:18.380 got friends in the area here . 01:18.460 --> 01:22.460 Oh absolutely ! I mean it 01:22.460 --> 01:24.990 was a military event with with the car 01:24.990 --> 01:27.101 bomb going up being placed up against 01:27.101 --> 01:29.990 the Hussaini or the mosque here . Um It 01:29.990 --> 01:32.510 was a tactical event in terms of us 01:32.510 --> 01:34.500 securing it and doing a controlled 01:34.500 --> 01:37.120 detonation but the effects of that and 01:37.120 --> 01:39.260 how we worked with the Iraqi security 01:39.260 --> 01:41.650 forces to rebuild the mosque and the 01:41.650 --> 01:43.483 houses alongside of it goes much 01:43.490 --> 01:45.760 farther beyond the , this , that 01:45.760 --> 01:48.310 specific military event we're really 01:48.310 --> 01:50.421 proud of of what we were able to do , 01:50.421 --> 01:52.421 hear us and the ISIS forces working 01:52.421 --> 01:55.700 together . Come over here , we can walk 01:55.700 --> 01:57.811 down here , we can show you where the 01:57.811 --> 02:01.660 thing was actually at 02:02.140 --> 02:05.450 right up 02:05.450 --> 02:08.760 here and you can see that where the 02:08.760 --> 02:11.090 asphalt was disrupted and it was how 02:11.090 --> 02:13.730 far how deep was admires about 23 ft 02:13.730 --> 02:17.130 deep , 3 to 4 . I mean this was a huge 02:17.130 --> 02:19.420 crater and go into the mosque . Now it 02:19.420 --> 02:21.531 did , it destroyed this wall which is 02:21.531 --> 02:23.642 why they have to build a new wall and 02:23.642 --> 02:26.100 put a relatively small hole in the side 02:26.100 --> 02:28.322 of the mosque , but still the structure 02:28.322 --> 02:31.340 of the moss standard . Uh yeah , 02:33.740 --> 02:35.962 you can see all the windows have been , 02:35.962 --> 02:38.296 all the windows in these homes were all , 02:38.296 --> 02:40.518 it was a really sad , you know , I mean 02:40.518 --> 02:42.629 people are in their , their lives are 02:42.629 --> 02:44.684 just and then when we go back we can 02:44.684 --> 02:46.851 you can take a picture of the , of the 02:46.851 --> 02:49.073 chassis , that thing because we brought 02:49.073 --> 02:51.296 our recovery uh people out and they was 02:51.296 --> 02:53.351 like , I'll show you where the thing 02:53.351 --> 02:55.573 was sitting there . We all converged on 02:55.573 --> 02:59.040 the spot a guy that the imam max . 02:59.050 --> 03:01.272 He asked me when we first got here , he 03:01.272 --> 03:03.480 goes I want to go I wanted to become a 03:03.480 --> 03:06.800 martyr at here from the Iraqi people . 03:06.810 --> 03:09.290 They'll either call us directly or 03:09.290 --> 03:12.160 they'll call the Iraqi security forces . 03:12.170 --> 03:14.392 They'll see an I . E . D . That's being 03:14.392 --> 03:16.503 laid in and they'll call somebody and 03:16.503 --> 03:18.614 we'll get the word and we'll come out 03:18.614 --> 03:20.837 we'll secure the area and a lot of time 03:20.837 --> 03:23.003 a lot of we found a lot of I . E . D . 03:23.003 --> 03:25.260 S . Um by tips from the local people . 03:25.270 --> 03:27.550 And then I see that is very encouraging 03:27.560 --> 03:30.260 that they trust us and more importantly 03:30.260 --> 03:32.482 they trust the Iraqi security forces to 03:32.482 --> 03:34.649 come out and protect him . I mean it's 03:34.649 --> 03:37.800 really we have saved the people of this 03:37.800 --> 03:39.856 area , have saved the lives of Iraqi 03:39.856 --> 03:42.170 soldiers and american soldiers because 03:42.170 --> 03:44.860 they told us through tips about I . E . 03:44.860 --> 03:46.916 D . S . That have been put in on the 03:46.916 --> 03:46.850 ground .