Note to Terrorists: The jig is about up. Enjoy your final days!
The good guys are here to stay!
Posted on 11/25/2005 2:41:42 PM PST by SandRat
It was a mission that eventually rooted out not only hidden weapons in quantities that resembled a gun show, but the terrorists themselves.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 25, 2005 — When local residents provide information on where terrorists are hiding their weapons, Iraqi and American forces are quick to respond.
An anonymous tip prompted Iraqi soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division and U.S. forces from D Company, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry to conduct searches in west Baghdad Nov. 20-21.
It was a mission that eventually rooted out not only hidden weapons but the terrorists themselves.
"It was a gun show with all the weapons, munitions, improvised explosive device materials and shoulder-launched missiles that were brought out from a hidden panel inside the bus, there were enough weapons to arm at least 30 men."
U.S. Army Sgt. Paul Casiano, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry
“The amount of weapons and munitions found (on the first day of searches) was enough to arm a small cell, maybe eight men,” said U.S. Army Sgt. Paul Casiano, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry.
The American and Iraqi forces turned up caches hidden inside four parked cars Nov. 20 and rounded up three suspected terrorists at the scene.
“The weapons inside the cars were enough to lay down some serious firepower, should they have been used,” Casiano added. “Luckily, the insurgents were discovered along with the cache.”
The caches included 10 assault rifles, six machine guns, six hand grenades, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers with eight rounds, a mine, and thousands of rounds of ammunition for the rifles and machine guns.
“I couldn’t believe that we found this many weapons in four small cars,” said U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Cortez, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry. “It is really awesome that we found all these weapons and detained the suspected terrorists. All the hard work of gathering intelligence and gaining the trust of the local nationals has really paid off.”
The next day proved even more productive, as the Iraqi and American soldiers turned up even larger caches on a large section of farmland that once belonged to Saddam Hussein.
Less than 20 minutes after beginning their mission, the soldiers found a mortar round hidden inside a bus parked in an old garage. Once soldiers began thoroughly searching the vehicle, they could barely believe their eyes.
Inside a hidden compartment was a large cache. The soldiers seized 37 blocks of explosives, 75 demolition charges, 400 feet of detonation cord, hundreds of blasting caps, 33 mortar rounds, 30 hand grenades, 29 RPG rounds, 20 hand-grenade fuses, 86 assorted radios, four night-vision devices, four light anti-tank weapons, three mortar fuses, two submachine guns, a sniper rifle, a video camera, a laser range finder, and several thousands of rounds for different weapons.
“It was a gun show,” Casiano said. “With all the weapons, munitions, improvised explosive device materials and shoulder-launched missiles that were brought out from a hidden panel inside the bus, there were enough weapons to arm at least 30 men.
Thankfully, the hard training of the Iraqi Army battalion allowed them to conduct the searches with success.”
However, the morning had just begun for these troops because less than a half hour passed before the Iraqi and American Soldiers found two more caches in the area.
These smaller caches contained 50 12.7-millimeter rounds, 18 rounds of linked 40-millimeter high-explosive grenades, dozens of mortar fuses, old Iraqi Republican Guard uniforms, five gas masks, five parachutes, two mortar rounds and two artillery shells.
The soldiers also discovered six already-prepared Improvised Explosives Devices waiting to be picked up and used against Iraqi civilians, Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition Forces.
“I feel a considerable dent was put into the local insurgency,” said U.S. Army Pfc. Michael Wilmott, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry. “With the December elections coming up quickly, it is a good thing to have the locals tip us off as to where weapons caches are located.”
Finding and taking away the Terrs weapons supplies
Good news from Iraq * ping *
thats my kind of gun show :P
Good news, poor choice of words for headline.
The libs already consider gun shows to be weapons caches
Any bets on whether there was anything/anobody on the tape?
Note to Terrorists: The jig is about up. Enjoy your final days!
The good guys are here to stay!
Hey , bring that surplus ordnance over here and put it on display in front of the ABC Network Headquarters in New York!
Good job soldiers, and THANKS, BIG TIME!
Way to go. GOD Bless you all.
Why? Did they find huge stocks of beef jerkey? Strange and impractical knife displays? Piles of black t-shirts with such catchy phrases as "MERC Death from Above"? Were there lines for a $5 corndog? Were all the beatup AK's listed as LNIB?
An anonymous tip prompted Iraqi soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division and U.S. forces from D Company, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry to conduct searches in west Baghdad Nov. 20-21.
If the US military were to line up all the weapons, mortars, rockets, etc it would be shocking to the MSM that there ARE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!
Really good work.
The article was written by the military, not by the "media."
Saving lives..Good hunting!
LOL!!!!
Too bad we couldn't print a small newspaper with a bunch of these story's about how good our troops are doing and stand outside the big media giants and give them to the people on the streets.
Only hawk them REALLY LOUD. You know, hawk it like they did in the old movies when they were selling a headline story? Stand there yelling; "Paper! Paper! Get You Paper Here! Troops Seize Large Weapons Cache!"
The libs already consider gun shows to be weapons caches
The word choice was deliberate 'libspeak'
imo
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