Citizen's tip leads MND-B Soldiers to EFP-making factory in local bakery

Courtesy Photo | Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers found a cache consisting of two explosively formed penetrators, four mortar tubes, six mortar rounds, three rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 14 RPG rounds and numerous armor piercing rounds, 20 blasting caps, three electric detonation devices, four sniper rifles with more than 400 rounds of ammunition, an RPK machine gun, 400 meters of command wire, 100 meters of detonation cord, various bomb-making materials, three grenades and a vehicle modified for a sniper after am Iraqi citizen's tip led the Soldiers to a weapons cache in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad on May 16.  

BAGHDAD, IRAQ

05.17.2008

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4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Public Affairs

4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad

BAGHDAD – An Iraqi citizen's tip led Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers to a weapons cache in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad on May 16.

After receiving a tip about an explosively formed penetrator-making operation in a Kamaliyah bakery at approximately 2 p.m., Soldiers from Company D, 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, attached to 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, cordoned off the suspect building.

Criminals attacked the Co. D Soldiers with small-arms fire and were driven off by MND-B Soldiers employing accurate small-arms fire. Soldiers from another platoon rushed to the scene to provide additional security.

The search operation continued and the MND-B Soldiers found a cache including two explosively formed penetrators, four mortar tube, six mortar rounds, three rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 14 RPG rounds and numerous armor piercing rounds, 20 blasting caps, three electric detonation devices, four sniper rifles with more than 400 rounds of ammunition, an RPK machine gun, 400 meters of command wire, 100 meters of detonation cord, various improvised-explosive-device making materials, three grenades and a vehicle modified for a sniper to fire from unobserved. The vehicle also contained one of the EFPs.

"We are thankful to the citizen who provided the information to make this find possible. Iraqis are taking an active role in their own protection to secure a brighter and safer future for Iraq," said Maj. Joey Sullinger, spokesperson for 4th BCT, 10th Mtn. Div. "We will find these criminals and their weapons of terror no matter where they hide. Along with our Iraqi security force counterparts, we will protect the populace."

• Date Taken: 05.17.2008
• Date Posted: 05.17.2008 11:52
• Story ID: 19533
• Location: BAGHDAD, IQ