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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080523-08
May 23, 2008

IA Soldiers remove dangerous weapons from streets of Sadr City

Multi-National Division – Baghdad

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Army Soldiers found multiple weapons caches and improvised explosive devices in Sadr City as Operation Peace continued May 22.
 
At approximately 5 p.m., Iraqi Army Soldiers from 36th Brigade, 9th IA Division, received information on a weapons cache from a local citizen and seized four IEDs, five propane tanks, a box of TNT, ball bearings rigged with wires, an RPK rifle, 20 liters of explosive material and rocket-propelled grenade propellant.
 
Minutes later, IA Soldiers from the 9th IA Div. discovered a weapons cache consisting of seven explosively formed projectiles, five 60 mm mortar rounds, more than a dozen RPGs, hand grenades, a mortar sight, a BKC machine gun and 1,200 BKC rounds, a Kalashnikov rifle and five Kalashnikov magazines, igniters, indicators, command wire, charges, detonators, eight radios and four battery chargers.
 
At approximately 12:05 a.m. May 23, IA Soldiers from 42nd Brigade, 9th IA Div., found an 82 mm mortar round, three SKS rifles and an AK-47 assault rifle. IA Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 1st IA Div., found four RPG rockets at approximately 12:40 a.m.
 
IA Soldiers also found two IEDs while conducting dismounted patrols throughout the city.
 
“Iraqi Army Soldiers continue to scour the street to rid the area of these dangerous weapons,” said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff, Multi-National Division – Baghdad and the 4th Infantry Division. “They are taking these weapons out of the hands of the militants and are providing safer, more secure neighborhoods for the residents of Baghdad.”

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