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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51107

“New York Guardsmen in Afghanistan to Commemorate Terror Attack Anniversary”

By Army Lt. Col. Paul Fanning
Special to American Forces Press Service

CAMP PHOENIX, Afghanistan, Sept. 10, 2008

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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22267&Itemid=128

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080910-04
Sept. 10, 2008

IA, Macedonian Rangers take weapons off streets of Baghdad
Multi-National Division – Baghdad

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Army soldiers and Macedonian Rangers attached to Multi-National Division – Baghdad, uncovered weapons caches in Baghdad Sept. 9.

While on patrol the Macedonian Rangers discovered a cache north of Baghdad at approximately 2:30 p.m. The weapons included two inert 550 French-manufactured air-to-air missiles and a 185 mm high-explosive projectile.

At approximately 11:30 p.m. soldiers serving with 1st Battalion, 54th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, along with its attached MND – B Military Transition Team, found a cache while on a cordon and search mission in Baghdad’s Mansour district. The cache included five concussion grenades, an RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade, multiple wireless radio communications and monitoring equipment and a Special Groups platoon roster.

“Our Coalition forces partners, the Macedonian Rangers and the Iraqi Army, continue to make a difference every day by removing these weapons from the streets of Baghdad,” said Maj. Mark Cheadle, spokesman, MND-B and the 4th Infantry Division. “Together, we are helping to make Baghdad a safer place by disrupting Special Groups and preventing their attacks on local citizens.”

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