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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  
RELEASE No. 20080523-13
May 23, 2008

Iraqi Army seize weapons caches in separate operations Multi-National Division – Baghdad

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Army soldiers discovered weapons caches in separate operations across Baghdad May 23.
 
Iraqi Army soldiers with the 22nd Brigade, 6th IA Division, seized a weapons cache and discovered a body in a mosque at approximately 10:30 a.m. in the Kadamiyah district of Bagdad.
 
The cache included rocket-propelled-grenade launchers, rocket-propelled grenades, an AK47, a machine gun, a PKC ammunition canister, a flak vest, a mortar tube and a sniper scope.
 
Earlier that morning, Soldiers with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, seized a weapons cache north of Baghdad containing approximately 30 60 mm Iranian mortars with a manufacturing date of 2007, and approximately a dozen 60 mm mortars of unknown origin, plus 82 mm illumination rounds, a 60 mm mortar tube, and various bomb-making materials and assorted ammunition.
 
“The combined efforts of Iraqi Army and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers are helping to make the streets of Baghdad safer by taking these weapons and munitions out of the hands of those who would harm the Iraqi people,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a spokesman for Multi-National Division – Baghdad and the 4th Infantry Division. “We remain vigilant in our efforts to safeguard the people of Iraq.”

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