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By Sgt. Kevin Stabinsky
2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – Concerned Local Citizens played a key role in three incidents removing insurgents and their resources from the Hawr Rajab and Arab Jabour regions Nov. 8.
In Arab Jabour, concerned citizens brought a large cache to Soldiers of Company D, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga., conducting operations in the area.
The cache consisted of 200 DSHKA heavy machine gun rounds, two gas masks, three former regime Iraqi army uniforms, five former regime Iraqi army flak vests, a notebook, two rolls of command wire, a 57 mm projectile, half a stick of dynamite and one roll of detonation cord.
The rounds, dynamite, projectile, detonation cord and command wire were destroyed in a controlled detonation. The other contents of the cache were collected and taken in for further examination.
"This shows that the concerned citizens are doing what they can to safely secure their neighborhood," said Capt. William Lyles, 1-30th Inf. Regt. battle captain. Lyles, from Hampton, Va., added that the citizens are doing a good job of turning in items insurgents would use.
In Hawr Rajab, Concerned Local Citizens turned in a 57 mm mortar round to paratroopers of Troop A, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th BCT (Airborne), 25th Inf. Div., Fort Richardson, Alaska, at Enduring Control Point 20.
The round was destroyed in a controlled detonation.
Also in Hawr Rajab, soldiers of the 5th Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division detained three individuals. The three men were identified by Concerned Local Citizens as al-Qaida members and known improvised explosive device emplacers. The men were detained along with 12 magazines with approximately 100 rounds of AK-47 ammunition.
The men are being held for questioning.
| Date Taken: | 11.12.2007 |
| Date Posted: | 11.12.2007 13:37 |
| Story ID: | 13815 |
| Location: | ISKANDARIYAH, IQ |
| Web Views: | 163 |
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