Posted on 05/24/2008 10:32:09 AM PDT by SandRat
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraqi Army and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers discovered multiple weapons caches and killed five criminals May 23 in Baghdad.
Iraqi Security Forces from 43rd Brigade, 11th IA Division, discovered a weapons cache in the Bayaa area of Rashid consisting of four explosively formed projectiles, four claymore mines, 10 rocket-propelled-grenade rockets, an AK-47 and 600 AK-47 rounds, 50 pounds of homemade explosives, a 152 mm Yugoslavian projectile, a detonation cord, and firing wire and caps for improvised explosive devices.
Northwest of Baghdad, MND-B Soldiers acted on a tip from a local citizen and found a weapons cache, seizing four 81 mm mortar rounds and a 120 mm mortar round.
Criminals attacked MND-B Soldiers with RPGs in the Shawra area of New Baghdad. The Soldiers called in an aerial weapons team, who fired a Hellfire missile, killing four criminals. Soldiers from the same unit later spotted armed criminals approaching a joint security station and killed one criminal.
MND-B Soldiers found an additional weapons cache May 24 in the Risala area of Rashid, seizing 180 mortar rounds, a 105 mm mortar round, an Iranian 107 mm rocket, shot gun shells, fuses and two grenades.
“Iraqi and MND-B Soldiers sacrifice daily to rid the streets of Baghdad of criminals and their tools of violence,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman, MND-B and the 4th Infantry Division. “Our goal is a better and brighter future for the Iraqi people. We’re seeing progress and the fruits of that labor.”
That's not in Sadr city as I recall...so the bad guys are moving to new haunts....
Like Cockroaches.
Thanks.
Thanks. I rely on your news feed to stay optimistic about the war.
Thanks, SandRat. All great stuff, as usual. Fitting for Memorial Day.
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