Friday, September 23
CITIZEN TIPS COMBAT ENGINEERS TO GUNS N' AMMO, THEY BLOW IT UP
| September 23, 2005 TAJI, Iraq – Task Force Baghdad Soldiers found a weapons cache while conducting offensive operations to disrupt anti-Iraqi forces activity north of Baghdad. The Soldiers, from the 70th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division discovered the cache at 6:40 a.m. Sept. 21 after receiving a tip from an Iraqi citizen. The cache consisted of one shotgun, one rifle, two bolt-action rifles, one 9 mm pistol, one mortar sighting device, one rocket-propelled grenade launcher sight, 12 rocket-propelled grenades, 20 60 mm mortar fuses, two grenades, an ammo belt of automatic rifle rounds, 275 AK-47 magazines and ammunition, and one machine gun mechanism. The unit confiscated the equipment while a military explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the ammunition. Weblog LINK |
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