Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071201-04
December 1, 2007

Concerned Local Citizens, Coalition Forces secure 3 weapons caches
Multi-National Division – Center PAO

FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – Ongoing cooperation between Concerned Local Citizens and Coalition Forces led to the identification and eventual destruction of three weapons caches in Arab Jabour and Hawr Rajab Nov. 29.

Soldiers from Company E, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga., located two improvised explosive devices in Arab Jabour. Each IED was made of three 57 mm projectiles. An explosive ordnance disposal team safely destroyed the six rounds.

As the EOD team was conducting the detonation, a group of CLCs approached them and turned over a pressure switch initiator. The group led the EOD team to the location where the switch was found. A second investigation led to the discovery of a smoke bomb.

In another location in Arab Jabour, CLCs brought Soldiers from Company B, 1-30th Inf. Regt. IED components. The components consisted of two 57 mm projectiles and a 4-pound bag of homemade explosives tied to the munitions. 

An EOD team conducted a controlled detonation.

CLCs also delivered a cache in Hawr Rajab.

The cache consisted of 25 kg of HME, one 155 mm illumination round and one 155 mm high-explosive round. An EOD team safely destroyed the contents in a controlled detonation.

“Concerned Local Citizens are an integral part in our operational scheme here in Arab Jabour and Hawr Rajab,” said Maj. Stephen Lutsky, 2nd BCT S3, plans and operations. “They have been empowered to assist in making their areas safer by removing these devices and materials that target everyone, to include their families.”

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