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Tip, detainee lead NP, MND-B Soldiers to weapons caches

Oct-19-2008 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – An Iraqi citizen’s confidence in Iraqi National Police and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers and information from a detainee led to the seizure of several weapons caches in the Baghdad area Oct. 16.

A tip from an Iraqi citizen led to the seizure of a munitions cache by Soldiers serving with A Company, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, at approximately 10:30 a.m. north of Baghdad.

The munitions included approximately 65 pounds of TNT, six cans of 14.5 mm ammunition, a damaged rocket-propelled grenade launcher, an empty RPG rocket, a 155 mm manufactured projectile and a hand grenade. A bag of sulfur and a bag of sodium carbonate were also seized at the scene.

At approximately 1 p.m. Soldiers serving with C Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd BCT, 25th Inf. Div., seized a cache west of Baghdad. The munitions seized included four 82 mm mortar rounds, an anti-personnel RPG and a 60 mm mortar tube.

Policemen serving with 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st National Police Division, and Soldiers serving with B Company, 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, seized a cache during a combined cache search in the New Baghdad district of Baghdad at approximately 10:20 a.m. The items seized were five AK-47s, six magazines loaded with 7.62 mm ammunition, a military-type load bearing equipment vest and an empty 107 mm rocket.

Based off information from a detained suspect, policemen serving with 2nd Battalion, 7th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division, and MND-B Soldiers serving with 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, seized four 105 mm rounds buried in a yard in the east Rashid district of Baghdad at approximately 7 pm.

“Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers continue to make a difference every day in helping to safeguard the citizens of Baghdad,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman for MND-B and the 4th Inf. Div. “Combined with the efforts of the citizens of Baghdad, they continue to take these dangerous weapons out of the hands of (criminals) and militants.

Since our transition, and in full partnership with Iraqi Security Forces, we have seized more than 2,100 weapons and munitions caches. We are committed to protecting the people of Baghdad, the Sons of Iraq transition, and aggressively pursuing terrorists and (criminals).”


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