Posted on 03/07/2006 3:32:22 PM PST by SandRat
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, captured two terrorists in Abu Ghraib Feb. 26.
Soldiers from the battalion’s Company B were conducting a routine inspection of vehicles in western Abu Ghraib. Prompted by his previous experiences in Iraq, 1st Lt. Scott Treadwell, Co. B, ordered his Soldiers to search a suspicious vehicle.
Treadwell’s men discovered two known murderers of Iraqi civilians. The two men were carrying rifles and contracts for the murder of other Iraqis.
A day prior, Soldiers from the battalion’s Co. C found a large weapon cache after days of diligent searching.
No longer willing to tolerate terrorists in their neighborhoods, Iraqis provided the Soldiers with the cache’s location.
The Soldiers quickly verified the location and discovered weapons buried in an empty field a few miles west of Baghdad’s heart.
The Soldiers unearthed a significant cache. Along with bomb-making equipment, the cache held five rocket propelled grenade launchers, 19 rocket-propelled grenades, 20 mortars, eight rockets, 21 grenades and some explosives.
To ensure public safety and deny these weapons to the terrorists, the Soldiers called for explosives experts to destroy the cache.
Soldiers from Special Troops Battalion, 1st BCT, 10th Mtn. Div., responded and destroyed the weapons in a controlled explosion.
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Keep these stories coming. I live in Watertown, NY near Ft. Drum, home of the 10th. Many wonderful young men from my local church are now serving in Iraq with the 10th. These are kind-hearted Christian warriors who we all can be very proud of.
Treadwell’s men discovered two known murderers of Iraqi civilians. The two men were carrying rifles and contracts for the murder of other Iraqis.
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BTTT
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