Joint patrol finds insurgent rocket set-up point

Joint patrol finds insurgent rocket set-up point

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A joint patrol found five rocket tubes and one rocket Oct. 30, not far from a suspected launch point for insurgents firing rockets into the International Zone.

Soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division’s Company D, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment and the 304th Iraqi National Guard Battalion discovered three fiberglass tubes and two metal tubes near a road not far from the Tigris River. The tubes were set up and pointed in the direction of the International Zone.

After searching the surrounding area, the patrol also found one 80-millimeter Soviet-built rocket buried next to a road, according to a source with 1-8 Cavalry. The battalion called this find significant because insurgents fired rockets Oct. 27 not far from where the tubes were found.

“Taking that equipment is good because it stopped an imminent attack on the International Zone,” said Capt. Jeff Mersiowsky, the assistant operations officer for 1-8 Cavalry.

An explosive ordnance disposal team from Camp Falcon destroyed the rocket in a controlled detonation later that afternoon. The tubes were brought back to Camp Falcon for analysis.

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1 posted on 11/02/2004 5:20:21 AM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl

To: Cannoneer No. 4; TEXOKIE; xzins; Alamo-Girl; blackie; SandRat; Calpernia; SAMWolf; prairiebreeze; ..

2 posted on 11/02/2004 5:21:30 AM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

1st Cav/304th Iraqi National Guard Battalion BUMP!!!

It's working!!!

redrock

3 posted on 11/02/2004 5:26:52 AM PST by redrock (John Kerry....a reincarnation of Benedict Arnold????)

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

Score a big one for the good guys!!

4 posted on 11/02/2004 5:26:56 AM PST by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

Like sand through the hour glass this is our forces at work.Keep it up we are praying for total victory god bless.

5 posted on 11/02/2004 5:27:39 AM PST by solo gringo (Don't be a girlie man vote Bush/Cheney in/04)

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

Next Kerry will whine about how Bush didn't personally travel to Iraq to hunt for these weapons personally.

Good work from the good guys! Also, a note to OBL: if this is your War of Attrition, then you are very screwed.

6 posted on 11/02/2004 5:35:19 AM PST by Army Air Corps (The real Kerry-Edwards election slogan: "Attacked at Home, ridiculed abroad.")

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

I wish they would have left everything as is and booby trapped the damn place!

MFO

7 posted on 11/02/2004 6:03:28 AM PST by Man from Oz

Like sand through the hour glass this is our forces at work.Keep it up we are praying for total victory god bless.

Don't you know the terrorists are puckered up? And today, after GW wins, they'll really, really be puckered up. Our warriors and President are relentless . . . and the terrorists will soon understand the REAL American willpower. They think we'll cut and run. But GW ain't Kerry.

8 posted on 11/02/2004 6:04:34 AM PST by geedee (When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.)

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

1st Cavalry Division Bump

9 posted on 11/02/2004 7:41:29 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

Good News ~ Bump!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

10 posted on 11/02/2004 7:56:55 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

After Bush wins Fallujah may capitulate....

11 posted on 11/02/2004 9:11:32 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)

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