I think Bush might need to talk to some of our European 'allies'.
Posted on 07/21/2005 8:33:48 AM PDT by robowombat
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 19, 2005
Contact: U.S. Army Lt. Col. Frederick P. Wellman
IRAQNA Cell: 011-964-0790-194-0326
DSN: 318-852-8325
Commercial: 703-343-8325
MCI: 914-822-2121 E-mail: wellmanfp@mnstci.iraq.centcom.mil
Joint raids lead to captured weapons
MOSUL, Iraq – Iraqi Security and Coalition forces conducted a series of successful joint raids in and around Mosul July 18, according to a multinational forces report.
Mosul Police officers and elements of 1-24 U.S. Infantry Regiment discovered a weapons cache hidden in the floor of a chicken coop during an early morning operation. Officials found 26 surface-to-air missiles, 700 mortar rounds, 450 rocket-propelled grenades, and 150 57 mm artillery rockets.
In a similarly successful raid, soldiers of the 1st Battalion 3rd Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division discovered a massive cache 50 kilometers south of Mosul. The cache of six 1000 pound bombs was found outside the town Qayyarah.
No injuries or damages were reported.
For more information about the Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq, please visit www.mnstci.iraq.centcom.mil
Wow! Some innocents won't be murdered by these weapons.
Micheal Yon has a website. He was there on this effort. Go to his blog. You won't regret it. He's an Ernie Pyle on the web.
Also, I highly recommend "Gunners' Palace" DVD.
Both will let you see the war through the grunts' eyes. And, it's them doing the hard, dangerous and dirty work.
How big was that chicken coop?
One day...WMD will be discovered buried in a chicken coop in Iraq...bank on it.
I would too if I could fiqure out a way to edit out all the rapping.
By the way, WILF for president! LoL.
ever been in a chicken coop? That alone is a wmd!
Our guys found some bad stuff in Iraq. It would never have been reported in the OLD MEDIA anyway -- even if the Supreme Court think wasn't going on.
...which is here.
Very cool article. Terrorism is a bad profession to be in these days.
In that case, better "shield" yourself, for life, from Caeser salads,capiche
A few thousand lives have been saved. Allah will be so sad.
Yes,I have been in a chicken coop before and the smell made me vomit on the spot.
These cops had nailed the beheaders, rescued the woman, found this cache and left us to clean it up. No informed person can honestly say there is no progress in Mosul.Most of the explosives were squirreled away in a room hidden under a filthy barnyard floor. The access point was a small square hole that opened into a room about half the size of a large semi-truck. It was packed with munitions. Floor to ceiling packed. Wall to wall packed. To dis-assemble the room, soldiers removed bombs just to stand on other bombs, so they could dig through stacks of bombs until finally reaching the floor. Then they duplicated this sequence, to create space for two soldiers to work, and finally, there was room for three.
Years ago, my grandmother put chicken coop "fertilizer" in her flower garden at her beach house in Delaware before leaving in September. She went back in February to check on everything and found her zinnias and marigolds still growing and blooming in February !
Powerful stuff !
Thanks, TC, for linking. I'm pretty much computer illiterate. It is a great blog. I check it almost daily along with Mudville Gazette and Blackfive. Michael Yon deserves many accolades.
BTTT
P90 could easily have been aquired pre-war. The Iraqi security services had lots of money, and even in 2003 I have been reading of all sorts of exotic old and modern items being found.
And it could be a private item. Lots of gun collectors in Iraq, no kidding. Those people did a lot of that, from Saddam Hussein on down, and no gun laws to get in the way.
Guns confer status over there, and the boss needs a nicer gun than the peons. The P90 looks cool, some chief or gangster or well-connected officer probably had it brought in.
Not too much of a surprise to find one of these things. Probably somebody's prestige gun.
Note also the M-1 Carbine beside it, hardly state-of-the-art. Both on top of a pile of ex-Commie stuff. I think these were the exotics in the haul.
Lordy, that's a lot of weaponry.
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