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MND-B Soldiers seize weapons caches, detain two criminals

May-25-2008 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers discovered several weapons caches and detained two criminals in Baghdad May 24.

Soldiers with 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, seized three 60 mm mortar rounds at approximately 6:45 a.m. in West Rashid.

Soldiers from 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, discovered a weapons cache northwest of Baghdad at approximately 12:30 p.m.

The cache consisted of two 122 mm mortar rounds, five 105 mm projectile rounds, four 85 mm mortar rounds, three 82 mm mortar rounds, a 60 mm mortar round, an 80 mm mortar round, a 106 mm inert projectile, a .50-caliber machine gun, an MG42 machine gun and the remnants of an anti-tank mine.

Sons of Iraq members, along with Soldiers with 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, currently supporting the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, detained a suspected criminal in the northern Baghdad district of Adhamiyah at approximately 5 p.m.

At approximately 10:50 p.m. in the New Baghdad district, Soldiers with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, spotted criminals transporting weapons. The Soldiers wounded and detained one criminal.


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