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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17482&Itemid=128

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080307-04
March 7, 2008

Iraqi Security Forces recover large weapons cache in Jabella

Multi-National Corps – Iraq PAO

BALAD, Iraq – Jabellah Iraqi Police recovered a large weapons and munitions cache in Jabella, south of Iskandariyah, March 4.

An Iraqi police officer discovered the cache in a house in Jabella. Jabella IP secured the cache and contacted provincial officials to determine its disposition.

Provincial Iraqi Security Forces responded to provide inventory and take charge of the cache, pending its final disposition. Provincial officials ultimately decided to transfer the cache into Coalition forces control.

The operation was deemed a success in that local and provincial Iraqi Security Forces worked quickly and decisively to remove a significant cache from potential use by criminal and Special Groups in the area.

The cache consisted of 165 one-pound blocks of C-4 explosive, 19 rocket propelled grenades, five RPG launchers, one 60mm mortar tube, three rolls of detonation cord and two blasting caps for making improvised explosive devices, 25 107 mm high explosive rockets and 23 rocket fuses, 10 120 mm high explosive mortar rounds, 84 60 mm and 60 81 mm high explosive mortar rounds, along with six 60 mm mortar fuses.

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129 posted on 03/07/2008 3:51:26 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/index.cfm?page=gadahn&language=english

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“...a new, unconfirmed report...”

blog:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/03/gadahn_death_rumor_c.php

“Gadahn death rumors continue to surface”
By BILL ROGGIO
March 6, 2008 9:24 PM

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “As US and Pakistani intelligence attempted to determine who else might have been killed in the Jan. 29 US airstrike in North Waziristan that took the life of al Qaeda commander Abu Laith al Libi, a new, unconfirmed report claimed Adam Gadahn, Laith’s American deputy, died in the strike, as did two Kuwaitis and four other terrorists.”


130 posted on 03/07/2008 3:56:17 AM PST by Cindy
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