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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080720-10
July 20, 2008

IA soldiers seize weapons cache in Sadr City
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Army soldiers working to secure the area in the Sadr City district of Baghdad uncovered a weapons cache July 20.

Soldiers with the 3rd Brigade, 1st IA Division found three rocket propelled grenades, twelve RPG-7 rounds, four RPG-7 chargers, a grenade, a 60 mm mortar tube and base, a PKC machine gun, two drums of rounds and 300 loose rounds.

Since May 20, the Iraqi Army has recovered 230 weapons and munitions caches in Sadr city north of Quds Street, including 280 improvised explosive devices and explosively formed projectiles, two anti-aircraft guns, 546 rocket propelled grenades, 85 RPG launchers, 44 machineguns, 740 AK-47s, miscellaneous rifles and pistols, 29 mortar tubes, 925 artillery, tank, anti-aircraft and mortar rounds, 52 rockets, 44 rocket launcher, rails and tubes, 120 anti-tank mines, an anti-personnel mine, large amounts of TNT and C4, almost 400 grenades, homemade explosives and various bomb-making materials.

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