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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080524-07
May 24, 2008

Iraqi Security Forces seize weapons cache
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraqi Army and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers discovered multiple weapons caches and killed five criminals May 23 in Baghdad. 
 
Iraqi Security Forces from 43rd Brigade, 11th IA Division, discovered a weapons cache in the Bayaa area of Rashid consisting of four explosively formed projectiles, four claymore mines, 10 rocket-propelled-grenade rockets, an AK-47 and 600 AK-47 rounds, 50 pounds of homemade explosives, a 152 mm Yugoslavian projectile, a detonation cord, and firing wire and caps for improvised explosive devices.
 
Northwest of Baghdad, MND-B Soldiers acted on a tip from a local citizen and found a weapons cache, seizing four 81 mm mortar rounds and a 120 mm mortar round. 
 
Criminals attacked MND-B Soldiers with RPGs in the Shawra area of New Baghdad. The Soldiers called in an aerial weapons team, who fired a Hellfire missile, killing four criminals. Soldiers from the same unit later spotted armed criminals approaching a joint security station and killed one criminal.
 
MND-B Soldiers found an additional weapons cache May 24 in the Risala area of Rashid, seizing 180 mortar rounds, a 105 mm mortar round, an Iranian 107 mm rocket, shot gun shells, fuses and two grenades.
 
“Iraqi and MND-B Soldiers sacrifice daily to rid the streets of Baghdad of criminals and their tools of violence,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman, MND-B and the 4th Infantry Division. “Our goal is a better and brighter future for the Iraqi people. We’re seeing progress and the fruits of that labor.”

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