[airborne]

Child’s tip leads Multi-National Soldiers to a large weapons cache, truck bomb
(TFO Press Release)

MOSUL, IRAQ (January 4, 2005)


An Iraqi child led Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment to a large cache of weapons in an abandoned building during a patrol in western Mosul that consisted of 30 60mm mortars, 21 rocket propelled grenade rounds, dynamite, various roadside bombs and components, five RPG launchers, over 100 mortar fuses, grenades, ammunition and intelligence documents.

Soldiers also discovered a stolen fuel truck in the configuration stages of a truck bomb. The discovery of the truck bomb possibly saved the lives of hundreds of people.

An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed both the truck and munitions with no injuries reported during the operation.

[Indy Pendance]

This reminds me of a story one of the soldiers told us last week. They were on a convoy somewhere in Iraq. There was one soldier who handed out little stuffed monkey toys to the little kids. As the convoy was moving along, there was a little Iraqi girl, about 5, sitting in in middle of the road, in the way of the convoy. They stopped and asked their leader what they should do. They were told to just drive around her. As the last vehicle was maneuvering around her, the soldier who handed out the toy monkeys was in that vehicle, and told the driver to stop, because that little girl was holding one of his toys. He got out, walked up to her, and she started pointing to the ground next to her, just crying. He got one of the people who check for ied's and sure enough, there was one buried right next to her. This little girl saved some soldiers that day.

[mad_as_he$$]

And they say kids don't like MRE's!!!