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    IJC Operational Update, Feb. 19

    KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

    02.19.2010

    Courtesy Story

    ISAF Joint Command

    KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan-international patrol found a weapons cache in the Nurgaram district of Nuristan province last night.

    The cache consisted of 12 107mm rockets, two rocket-propelled grenades and two 75mm recoilless rifle rounds.

    In the Garm Ser district of Helmand yesterday, an Afghan civilian told a joint patrol about a weapons cache buried in a field. The patrol found the cache containing 22 mortar rounds.

    Another Afghan-international security force in Garm Ser found a weapons cache yesterday containing 12 recoilless rifle rounds, eight mortar rounds, an illumination round and a weapons tripod.

    In the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand yesterday, a joint patrol with Operation Moshtarak found a cache containing 4.5 kilograms (10 lbs.) of rocket propellant, a pressure plate and two mortar rounds.

    Another Afghan-international security patrol in the same district received a tip from an Afghan civilian about a cache yesterday. The cache contained 20 pressure plates, command wires and explosives.

    An Afghan civilian led a joint patrol to a weapons cache in the Maidan Shahr district of Wardak province yesterday. The cache contained four 122mm rockets.

    All of the weapons found have or will be destroyed.

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    Date Taken: 02.19.2010
    Date Posted: 02.19.2010 02:11
    Story ID: 45552
    Location: KABUL, AF

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