Posted on 03/21/2008 2:48:08 PM PDT by SandRat
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi National Police seized a substantial weapons cache March 18 in eastern Baghdad. National Police from 1st Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st NP Division, received a tip from a concerned citizen in the area on a large amount of weapons being stockpiled.
The NPs acted on the tip and found 34 107 mm rockets, 44 60 mm mortar rounds, 18 81 mm mortar rounds, 10 rocket-propelled grenades, 38 107 mm rocket fuses, 10 completed rocket sleds and another four partially constructed sleds, three RPG launchers, one 82 mm mortar tube, one 60 mm mortar tube, two RPK machine guns, one Dragonov sniper rifle, numerous 7.62 ammunition rounds, four washing machine timers, four electronic boxes, a large bag of wire and miscellaneous types of batteries.
An explosive ordnance disposal team from Multi-National Division – Baghdad secured the cache and safely transported the weapons to a MND-B operating base.
“Areas in eastern and southern Baghdad have seen an increase in indirect fire attacks, and the confiscation of the rockets and mortars will deplete terrorist and extremist elements of weapons to conduct attacks against innocent civilians and Coalition Forces,” said Brig. Gen. Mike Milano, deputy commanding general for MND-B and the 4th Infantry Division.
“Iraqi Security Forces continue to successfully hunt down and attack al-Qaeda in Iraq and extremists operating with the intention of harming innocent Iraqis,” he said. “By informing the ISF of these weapons, the local Iraqi undoubtedly saved lives by his actions.”
>>10 completed rocket sleds and another four partially constructed sleds,
WTH is a rocket sled!?
As always, good reporting SandRat. Does this mean the iraqis themselves are finally getting their act together?
Oh, we use those when it snows here.
Looks that way.
Got me.
After FIVE LONG YEARS and hundreds of BILLION$...
When I hear those words, I think of stuff like this:
They've been doing this for quite a while. It cranked up a notch several months ago when the Awakening Councils (Sons of Iraq) got going.
The Iraqis are doing a great job with security now.
fortunately, these are ‘weapons of mass destruction’ so PMSNBC won’t have to report it.....
I hope you have been keeping a diary since you have been “in country”.
I see a book deal in your future.
As I like history, has anyone done an overview of how iraq has progressed vs germany and japan after WWII? You might include other conflicts as well, vietnam, korea, gulf war I, kosovo/serbia. In other words, is there a precipitate of wisdom that comes out of all these conflicts, remembering what Jesus said about wars...
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