OPERATION NEW MARKET

After the handover of sovereignty, 'Operation New Market' was a sweep of an area near Haditha in western Iraq conducted by one thousand coalition and Iraqi Security Forces to rid the Euphrates river bank of Saddam Chupacabra. It was launched on 25 May 2005 and followed Operation Squeeze Play. New Market was followed by Operation Lightning. The operation was named after the famous US Civil War battle at New Market, VA [1]where cadets from the Virginia Military Institute [2]fought and some perished.