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Insurgent Killed; Soldiers Destroy Two Weapons Caches
American Forces Press Service ^

Posted on 05/28/2006 12:58:53 PM PDT by SandRat

WASHINGTON, May 28, 2006 – Iraqi police and coalition forces killed an insurgent in Samarra, Iraq, yesterday, and U.S. soldiers destroyed two weapons caches, U.S. military officials said.

U.S. soldiers from the 978th Military Police Battalion were on a combined patrol with Samarra police when three insurgents started shooting at them from a sedan. The patrol returned fire, killing one of the occupants and disabling the car. The other two insurgents fled on foot.

An artillery round was found in the vehicle. Samarra authorities confiscated both the shell and the car.

In other news, coalition forces located and destroyed a weapons cache yesterday in the area just south of Lake Thar Thar, in the Jazirah region of Iraq.

The troops uncovered one missile launcher, two 152 mm shells, five missiles, and seven anti-aircraft warheads. All of the weapons and ordnance were destroyed on site.

Elsewhere, Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers May 26 conducted a cordon-and-search of a house suspected of harboring terrorists and concealing weapons caches south of Baghdad.

U.S. soldiers from B Company, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, discovered a small weapons cache by the house and uncovered a sizeable cache in a field nearby.

The weapons cache consisted of 2,300 .50-caliber machine gun rounds, 300 30 mm mortar rounds, one 60 mm mortar round, eight 120 mm mortar rounds, one rocket, 30 disassembled .50 caliber weapons, two disassembled 30 mm weapons, nine large bags of homemade explosives, and other bomb-making materials.

An explosives ordnance disposal team assessed and destroyed the cache.

(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Defense Department news releases.)


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: caches; destroy; insurgent; iraq; killed; oif; soldiers; terrorist; weapons

1 posted on 05/28/2006 12:58:56 PM PDT by SandRat
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To: 91B; HiJinx; Spiff; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; clintonh8r; TEXOKIE; windchime; Grampa Dave; ...

GOOD WAR NEWS!!


2 posted on 05/28/2006 12:59:19 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

Tubby Jack Murtha isn't going to like this.


3 posted on 05/28/2006 1:01:43 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom or a baloney sandwich? A DemocRAT will ALWAYS choose the baloney sandwich.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Why don't they tell us how many insurgents we killed as opposed to how many of our troops those rodents have slain?


4 posted on 05/28/2006 1:11:08 PM PDT by americanstrategist
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To: americanstrategist

The first sentence says that coalition forces killed an insurgent.


5 posted on 05/28/2006 1:28:39 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (The MSM is "the propaganda arm of our enemies." - Jack Kelly)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Soooooo,...... Mush-Mouth Murthat ain't gonna like it eh?

Awwwwwwwwwwww!

POOR BABY.

6 posted on 05/28/2006 1:57:32 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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