Multi-National Division Baghdad

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By the Multi-National Division – Baghdad Public Affairs Office

BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers continue their efforts to secure the Baghdad area and uncovered weapons caches, July 23.

At approximately 9 a.m., Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 53rd Brigade, 14th Iraq Army Division, seized eight 120 mm mortars and 12 60 mm mortar rounds north of Baghdad.

Later, police officers with the 3rd Battalion, 5th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division, found an explosively-formed penetrators, a bag of TNT explosive material and a hand grenade, at approximately 3 p.m., in the West Rashid area of Baghdad.

In a separate incident, a local citizen turned in a cache to Soldiers serving with the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, consisting of 17 rocket sections, 232 fuses, a mortar bipod, two improvised rocket launchers, a 57 mm rocket inside each improvised rocket launcher and a 81 mm rocket war head at approximately 3:30 p.m., north of Baghdad.

Later, Soldiers with 2nd SBCT, 25th Inf. Div., found two Russian 105 mm heat rounds, a 130 mm Russian heat round, two 120 mm heat rounds and four 106 mm 75 Chinese heat rounds north of Baghdad at approximately 4 p.m.

At approximately 5 p.m., Soldiers with 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, seized two PG-7M rockets, a machine gun, a 105 mm mortar, a signal flare, three Iraqi hand grenades, two 82 mm mortars and five pounds of sulfur power in the New Baghdad area of Baghdad.

Soldiers with 2nd SBCT, 25th Inf. Div., received a cache turned in by a local citizen consisting of three 82 mm mortars, a 70 mm PG-7 rocket and a 130 mm projectile with the detonation cord in the fuse well at approximately 7:45 p.m., north of Baghdad.

"In full partnership with Iraqi security forces, MND-B Soldiers will not yield the initiative, rather we will continue to attack along all lines of effort to keep the terrorists and extremists off balance in order to secure a brighter future for all Iraqis," said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman for MND-B and the 4th Infantry Division.

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