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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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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: 05-12-20
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TERRORIST DETONATES BOMB IN COFFEE SHOP
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Police reported an explosion in a coffee shop in east Baghdad around 8:30 p.m. Dec. 6.
Initial reports indicated that a terrorist left a satchel filled with explosives in the restaurant in the Howra marketplace. The blast killed at least three civilians and one Iraqi Police officer and wounded nine other civilians and three Iraqi Police. The wounded were evacuated to al-Kindi Hospital.
Iraqi Police and Task Force Baghdad Soldiers responded to the incident, securing the site and helping to evacuate the wounded.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS RELEASE, CONTACT THE TASK FORCE BAGHDAD PUBLIC AFFAIRS PLANS AND OPERATIONS NCO, MASTER SGT DAVID ABRAMS AT: DAVID.ABRAMS@ID3.ARMY.MIL.
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