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"Major arms cache unearthed in Syria"
Wed Dec 7, 4:05 PM ET
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrian security forces found caches of arms and explosives in the province of Aleppo and the suburbs of Damascus, it was reported, adding the weapons came from Lebanon.
The official SANA agency also said security forces had unearthed a bomb-making factory in the northern province of Aleppo, the site of recent clashes between militants and security forces.
"The security forces in charge of fighting terrorism have discovered during their latest operations against Takfirist (Sunni extremist) terrorists several arms and explosives caches in various places in Aleppo province and the suburbs of Damascus."
SANA said that among the objects discovered were "automatic rifles, anti-tank missile launchers, revolvers, bombs, explosive materials, explosives belts as well as personal documents and Takfirist propaganda."
"These arms came into Syria from Lebanon and they were seized during an attempt to send them back into Lebanon following police intervention," it said."
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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20051219.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
December 7, 2005
Release Number: 05-12-19
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAJOR CACHE UNCOVERED NEAR TUZ
TIKRIT, Iraq – Just a week after a huge cache of mortars was uncovered near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, another large terrorist cache was discovered Tuesday morning near the neighboring city of Tuz.
Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, found two storage bunkers crammed with weapons near Forward Operating Base Bernstein, west of the city.
More than 400 rockets of various types and 80 mortar rounds were discovered in the bunkers. Mortars and rockets, along with IEDs, are the preferred weapons of terrorist against civilian populations and military forces because they allow them to conduct attacks and then run away from the launch sites without having to face Iraqi or Coalition Forces.
Seventy cases of small arms ammunition, 100 artillery fuses, and a dozen rocket-propelled grenade warheads were also stashed in the bunkers.
An explosive ordnance disposal team was called in to inspect the weapons and conducted a controlled detonation to destroy the cache.
Another weapons cache was seized in Kirkuk Dec. 6, after police received a tip from a local resident. Rockets, mortars, tank rounds, anti-aircraft rounds and artillery fuses were taken by Soldiers from 1st BCT and an EOD team for disposal.
For more information, please contact the 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION Public Affairs Office at EDWARD.LOOMIS@US.ARMY.MIL
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