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MND-B Soldiers seize weapons caches north of Baghdad

Dec-10-2008 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Army and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized three weapons and munitions caches north of Baghdad Dec. 8.

Soldiers serving with 2nd Battalion, 36th Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division and Soldiers of 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, confiscated a cache at 11 a.m. The cache consisted of an 80 mm rocket, two 82 mm mortars and a 120 mm mortar.

At approximately 12:30 p.m., Soldiers serving with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, found two 120 mm mortars and two 122 mm projectiles.

Soldiers serving with Troop C, 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, discovered a cache at 2 p.m. The cache consisted of 49 82 mm mortars, a 120 mm mortar, an 82 mm mortar, two 60 mm illumination mortars, an 85 mm rocket, a 57 mm projectile, an electric blasting cap, an 82 mm mortar tube and a 60 mm mortar tube.

Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized more than 2,300 weapons and munitions caches since the 4th Infantry Division’s arrival nearly a year ago. The cumulative caches contained 566 improvised explosive devices, 1,387 rockets, 12,788 mortar and artillery rounds, 1,960 pounds of C4, 2,571 RPGs, 555 explosively-formed penetrators and 12 and 414 rifles.


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