Posted on 06/07/2008 12:05:12 PM PDT by SandRat
BAGHDAD – Iraqi National Police and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized a number of weapons caches and killed one criminal June 6 in Baghdad.
Soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, discovered 11 rocket warheads, four 122mm mortar rounds, a rocket tube, and a medium-sized bomb at approximately 10:15 a.m. northwest of Baghdad.
National Police from the 8th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division, seized 16 rocket-propelled grenades, eight boosters, a pineapple grenade and an RPG night site at approximately 10:40 a.m. in the Oubaidy area of New Baghdad.
Iraqi NPs from 2nd Bde., 1st NP Division seized 24 AK-47s, an SKS assault rifle, and a Beretta pistol at approximately 2 p.m. north of Baghdad.
At approximately 6:15 p.m. in the Furat area of Rashid, Soldiers from the1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, seized 14 sticks of dynamite, a battery detonator and an indeterminate amount of electrical wire.
Soldiers from 2nd SBCT, 25th Inf. Div. were attacked with small-arms fire at approximately 11:30 p.m. northwest of Baghdad., Soldiers returned fire and killed one militant.
“Iraqi Security and Coalition forces continue to rid the streets throughout the Baghdad area of these dangerous weapons,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman, MND-B and the 4th Infantry Division. “The forces work together to safeguard the people of Baghdad.”
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