FIVE-HUNDRED-AND-EIGHTY ROCKETS CONFISCATED

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December 29, 2003
Release Number: 03-12-71

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FIVE-HUNDRED-AND-EIGHTY ROCKETS CONFISCATED

TIKRIT, Iraq – An Iraqi citizen provided information to U.S. Air Force airmen concerning a large weapons cache that he said consisted of close to six hundred rockets. The Air Force in turn asked the U.S. Army for assistance. Air Force personnel and a patrol from 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment went to the identified site in the evening of Dec. 27 to investigate.

The intelligence acquired suggested the rockets could be found hidden in some undergrowth along the river next to a tree line. After a short search, the soldiers and airmen found a berm near a tree line that was approximately 35-feet long and four feet high. Buried in the berm, covered with plastic and dirt, they found 580 57-millimeter rockets. The unit secured the perimeter of the site and coordinated with an explosive ordinance disposal team for the destruction of the weapons.

The soldiers secured the position overnight until an explosive ordinance disposal team could destroy the rockets.

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

FIVE-HUNDRED-AND-EIGHTY ROCKETS CONFISCATED ~ Bump!

Be Well ~ Be Armed ~ Be Safe ~ Molon Labe!

41 posted on 12/29/2003 8:45:49 AM PST by blackie

To: Conspiracy Guy

I guy could have a hellova 4th of July with that stuff.

42 posted on 12/29/2003 8:47:15 AM PST by oyez (Incredible!)

That one is definitely on the way back from the hunting club and not on the way to.

43 posted on 12/29/2003 8:48:57 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (No words were harmed during the production of this tagline.)

That's enough to start the show but I don't see the grand finale stuff in there!

44 posted on 12/29/2003 8:49:54 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (No words were harmed during the production of this tagline.)

To: Conspiracy Guy; All

Yep. According to the media, Saddam was Prince Charming.

In other news, Coalition Forces , working with heavy duty construction equipment, are destroying 100 tons a day of munitions.

100 TONS A DAY.

And we just keep finding more.

45 posted on 12/29/2003 9:38:06 AM PST by UCANSEE2 ("Duty is ours, Results are God's" --John Quincy Adams)

these are conventional explosive munitions.

46 posted on 12/29/2003 9:47:42 AM PST by King Prout (oh, finding your "core values" in the latest poll, are you, Mr. Dean?)

To: Ragtime Cowgirl; Atlantic Friend

Good find.AL..If you want to keep up with good news from Iraq,along with the bad,go to Ragtime Cowgirl's posts.

47 posted on 12/29/2003 9:47:53 AM PST by MEG33 (We Got Him!)

To: Atlantic Friend

48 posted on 12/29/2003 9:49:11 AM PST by MEG33 (We Got Him!)

We didn't have evidence of these until someone told us and we dug them up.

49 posted on 12/29/2003 9:51:32 AM PST by MEG33 (We Got Him!)

We ought to be ashamed. All that stuff and we're just breaking it ; )

50 posted on 12/29/2003 9:59:03 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (No words were harmed during the production of this tagline.)

To: UCANSEE2; Ragtime Cowgirl

100 TONS A DAY.

One giant AMMO DUMP with 26 Million people intertwined with it.

Just amazing more people aren't being killed!

51 posted on 12/29/2003 11:00:22 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Davis is now out of Arnoold's Office , Bout Time!!!!)

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Howard Dean, your suppositories are back in stock--bend over.

52 posted on 12/29/2003 5:21:12 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

So maybe was that the controled explosion today in Baghdad ?

53 posted on 12/29/2003 5:30:43 PM PST by Newbomb Turk

To: Ragtime Cowgirl

54 posted on 12/31/2003 1:35:34 AM PST by windchime (Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))

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