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MND-B Soldiers seize weapons cache in Baghdad

Aug- 8-2008 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Multi-National Division – Baghdad

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized a weapons cache in the eastern Baghdad district of New Baghdad Aug. 6.

At approximately 10 p.m., Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, attached to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, seized a cache consisting of an Iranian-manufactured 120 mm mortar, 16 Iranian-manufactured 81 mm mortars, 39 82 mm mortars, seven 60 mm mortars, a 73 mm projectile, four 40 mm rifle smoke grenades, two 107 mm Chinese rockets, three anti-personnel mines, 115 Iraqi hand grenades, 200 boosters, 120 12.7 mm rounds, 50 5.56 mm rounds, 11 primer cartridges, 60 M6 fuses, 50 M5 fuses and a blasting cap.

“MND-B Soldiers are constantly out on the streets of Baghdad, partnering with the Iraqi Security Forces and talking to the Iraqi people,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman, MND-B and the 4th Infantry Division. “The result of our partnership and engagements, as well as aggressive patrolling, is recovering weapons and munitions caches that terrorists and criminal elements are trying to hide. Our message is simple: We will not rest in our endeavors to provide safe neighborhoods for the residents of Baghdad.”


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