Weapons cache found in Mosul

Stars & Stripes ^ | October 14, 2005

[SmithL]

American and Iraqi soldiers near Mosul on Tuesday seized one of the largest weapons caches uncovered in that area, officials said Thursday. More weapons from the cache, buried in a 20-foot container in the ground in Rawah, were still being found after the main cache was destroyed.

Among the weapons found were 220 rocket-propelled grenades, 40,000 7.62 mm rounds, 100 2.75-inch rockets, 10 anti-tank mines, 1,000 .50-caliber rounds, 50 mortar rounds, 3,000 feet of detonation cord, a dozen 40-pound containers of black powder and two dozen 40-pound containers of red powder.

The cache was found by Iraqi forces from the 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division and U.S. soldiers from the 4th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, officials said.

Another 1,000 122 mm artillery rounds have also been found in the area, about 700 of which have been destroyed.

[SmithL]

This seems to be a different cache than this one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1502172/posts

[BigBobber]

I wonder if these caches are left over from the Saddam era, or newly imported from Iran and elsewhere?

[Husker24]

I wonder what they were using the Black Powder for?, and whats Red Powder?

[blake6900]

The cache was found by Iraqi forces from the 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division...

This must be a misprint. Joe Biden said there aren't any Iraqi forces in Iraq.

[Just Lori]

ping

[SandRat]

That's a serious weapons cache.

[NormsRevenge]

I posted a couple of pics on the #3 FReepathon thread of this.

A row of 122 mm artillery rounds are displayed after U.S. soldiers from the 14th Cavalry Regiment discovered a weapons cache hidden in a buried twenty-foot storage container in western Iraq's Al Anbar province, in this military handout photo taken October 11, 2005. The cache was one of the largest munitions finds to date and contained more than 1,000 122 mm artillery rounds, approximately 40,000 armour piercing bullets, 1,000 .50 caliber rounds, detonation cord and various bomb-making materials. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE REUTERS/USMC/Handout

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A U.S. soldier from the 14th Cavalry Regiment peers down into a weapons cache hidden in a buried twenty-foot storage container in western Iraq's Al Anbar province, in this military handout photo taken October 11, 2005. The cache was one of the largest munitions finds to date and contained more than 1,000 122 mm artillery rounds, approximately 40,000 armour piercing bullets, 1,000 .50 caliber rounds, detonation cord and various bomb-making materials. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE REUTERS/USMC/Handout

[Pro-Bush]

bttt!!!

[Berlin_Freeper]

The MSM ignores and won't report about this because it actually is good news.

But when the President calls and someone says "move that water bottle out of the camera shot" and asks who is going to answer what question without scripting the answers, then it is all the MSM hysterical crap head rage.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"I wonder if these caches are left over from the Saddam era, or newly imported from Iran and elsewhere?"

It is only during the Saddam era and before 1991 if the cache contains any chem warheads.

After that they are caches of the freedom fighters.

[Recovering_Democrat]

The "Today" show will be putting this into their news reports this morning. < \lie>