By the Multi-National Division – Baghdad Public Affairs Office
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized munitions caches throughout Baghdad, Aug. 14, 2008.
Acting on a tip from a local resident, at approximately 10 a.m., soldiers with Company C, 1st Infantry Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, seized five 40 mm rockets, three PG-7 rockets, a bag of loose small-arms ammunition, 21 cans of 12.7 mm ammunition, 19 82 mm mortars and eight 120 mm mortars in the Mushada area northwest of Baghdad. The munitions were transported to a coalition forces base and destroyed by explosive ordnance detachment Soldiers in a controlled detonation.
Approximately one-half hour later, a local sheik turned in two PG-7 rockets to MND-B Soldiers from the same unit in the al-Awad area northwest of Baghdad.
Later, at approximately 5:50 p.m., a Sons of Iraq member turned in two grenades, a signal illumination grenade, a stick of explosive material and four grenade fuses to soldiers of Company A, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, in the East Rashid area of Baghdad. The munitions were retrieved by an explosive ordnance detachment team.
Approximately fourty-five minutes later, Soldiers 7th Sqdn., 10th Cav. Regt. seized 33 60 mm Iranian-made mortars, 52 blocks of Iranian-made C4 explosives, 55 electrical blasting caps, nine bags of small-arms ammunition, an M6 explosive fuse, two bags of ball bearings, a 60 mm mortar tube, a PIR explosive device element and various bomb-making materials in the East Rashid area of Baghdad.
At approximately 10:30 p.m., soldiers with Company C, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, attached to 1st BCT, 4th Inf. Div., seized four 81 mm Iranian-made mortars, eight Iranian-manufactured 60 mm mortars and a Dragonov rifle complete with scope in the West Rashid area of Baghdad.
"It is vitally important to see the continued efforts of the local community in removing these dangerous weapons from the streets of the greater Baghdad area," said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, MND-B and 4th Inf. Div. spokesman, "The people of Baghdad seek a better life for themselves and their families and are actively contributing to the effort of taking these weapons out of the hands of those who would do them harm."
| Date Taken: | 08.14.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 08.15.2008 09:46 |
| Story ID: | 22524 |
| Location: | BAGHDAD, IQ |
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