U.S. troops find Baghdad arms caches

CNN ^ | 1/24/05 | Various

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. soldiers found several caches of weapons late Sunday and early Monday in raids on homes in southern Baghdad that authorities allege were being used as supply points for the insurgency.

The weapons were found by soldiers of the 5th Brigade of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, which has been patrolling the capital's Al-Rashid district, reported CNN producer Tomas Etzler, who is embedded with the unit.

Five people, including an Iraqi police officer, were detained.

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Excellent news... Good work!

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Another unit was dispatched to search the house the truck came from. Inside, soldiers found grenade launchers, AK-47 rifles, artillery rounds, cell phones, bomb detonators and eight Iraqi police uniforms.

Using a metal detector, the unit discovered five plastic barrels buried in the garden 6 inches underground.

The barrels contained rocket-propelled grenade launchers with dozens of rounds, as well as dozens of rockets, AK-47s, machine guns, pistols, Chinese and Bulgarian hand grenades and more than 16,000 rounds of ammunition.

Bomb-making wires and other explosives materials were also found.
Wow

[seacapn]

The traitor they found along with the cache should be fed alive to starving swine as an example to others.

[maine-iac7]

hmmm...

think the fact that they've had the bomber in custody for the past week have anything to do with finding these?

[snowtigger]

Amazing, isn't it. On the one hand, our youth , our best and brightest, put their lives on the line to protect our freedom, and bring it to others.

On the other hand, the supreme court, charged with keeping our country, just give it away with ruling after ruling. Just today, they said it was okay for a man to kill his disabled wife. At the same time, they said a cop can do a canine search of your car without probable cause.

As the song says "And another piece of America is lost"