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Local residents lead Soldiers to huge weapons cache
Multi-National Force - Iraq ^

Posted on 07/28/2007 1:01:20 PM PDT by SandRat

PATROL BASE INCHON — The rural areas south of Baghdad have long been a trouble spot for Coalition Forces. The fertile land was given by Saddam Hussein to Baath Party members and close friends, and the ties made it a hotbed of terrorism.

Increasingly, however, residents are combating terror in their areas.

On July 23, a local Iraqi man came to Patrol Base Inchon, near the Euphrates River, staffed by Company D, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., and elements of the 4th Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division. He told troops that several other residents had chased a group of anti-Iraqi forces away from a weapons cache. He asked Soldiers to remove the weapons.

Several local residents guarded the cache and placed a fluorescent marking cloth to alert helicopters that they were not hostile.

Soldiers of Company D moved out to find the cache and were met on the road by some of the local residents, who guided them to the cache, which was next to a canal.

The cache contained 210 57mm rockets, 25 82mm rockets, eight 120mm mortars, a large rocket, and a bag of homemade explosives.

An explosive ordnance disposal team detonated the contents of the cache with a controlled explosion.

Although most rockets and mortars found in caches are not suitable for firing as intended, they are commonly used as improvised explosive devices.

“It’s a significant breakthrough in one of our most problematic areas,” said Maj. Kenny Mintz, 2nd BCT’s operations officer. “We have had a series of people turn in caches in the Qarghuli tribal area, which has historically been a source for supplies for IEDs and munitions for terrorist attacks.”

Mintz, a San Diego native, said he feels the change in residents’ behavior is due to a realization that al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations are not what they had bargained for.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; depot; frwn; id; iraq; residents; snitch; wepons

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1 posted on 07/28/2007 1:01:22 PM PDT by SandRat
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To: 91B; HiJinx; Spiff; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; clintonh8r; TEXOKIE; windchime; Grampa Dave; ...
FR WAR NEWS!

WAR News at Home and Abroad You'll Hear Nowhere Else!

All the News the MSM refuses to use!

Or if they do report it, without the anti-War Agenda Spin!

2 posted on 07/28/2007 1:02:02 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat
This is a bogus report Rat ... everyone knows the Iraqi's don't want us there ... hate us ... and in no way want to improve their lives.

< / s >

3 posted on 07/28/2007 1:12:23 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: knarf
Success , courtesy of www.Hotair.com

4 posted on 07/28/2007 1:19:42 PM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: knarf

“This is a bogus report Rat”
I made no such report! Please leave me out of it!


5 posted on 07/28/2007 1:20:47 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: SandRat

No progress in Iraq, nothing to see here. Move along...
Says Hillary Clinton....


6 posted on 07/28/2007 1:23:33 PM PDT by TheBattman (I've got TWO QUESTIONS for you....)
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To: TheBattman

BUMP!


7 posted on 07/28/2007 1:45:23 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: SandRat

bttt


8 posted on 07/28/2007 2:06:26 PM PDT by AprilfromTexas
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To: SandRat

beautiful posting, as always......thanks a million


9 posted on 07/28/2007 2:18:40 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: BOBTHENAILER
bttt
10 posted on 07/28/2007 3:13:19 PM PDT by Col Freeper
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To: SandRat

10th Mountain Ping!! CLIMB TO GLORY


11 posted on 07/28/2007 3:59:15 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in the Triangle of Death)
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To: SandRat; All

I’d also like to send a Happy Birthday wish to my son, Spc. Robert Pinnell, of the 1/89 Calvary Regiment - 2nd BCT/10th Mountain Division who turned 21 today.


12 posted on 07/28/2007 4:03:06 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in the Triangle of Death)
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To: SoldierDad
Well,... Spc. Robert Pinnell!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

13 posted on 07/28/2007 4:13:15 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SoldierDad; SandRat

Happy Birthday to SPC Pinnel. It’s also our oldest daughter’s bd.

Thanks for the article and links, SandRat. Will await the video footage from the MSM... waiting.... waiting...
Never mind.


14 posted on 07/28/2007 4:22:16 PM PDT by Diver Dave
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To: Diver Dave

Wish your daughter a very Happy Birthday from us DD.

SD


15 posted on 07/28/2007 4:23:23 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Division Soldier fighting terrorists in the Triangle of Death)
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To: SandRat

Wasn’t there something just a few days ago about a young boy flagging down a convoy or patrol to alert them to a potential bomb? I never saw it but someone mentioned it to me but was sort of short on info....


16 posted on 07/28/2007 4:28:00 PM PDT by deport ( Cue Spooky Music...)
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To: deport

I was off all last week but let me check back......


17 posted on 07/28/2007 4:36:03 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SoldierDad

Hope your son has a bright future with many more birthdays. Thank you for your son’s service. From a soldier mom.


18 posted on 07/28/2007 4:37:12 PM PDT by EverOnward
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To: SandRat

Did a fast check and can’t find it but yes there was such a story as I recall.


19 posted on 07/28/2007 4:39:49 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

Thanks...... The person that told me about it saw it on tv but it didn’t replay during the day. I couldn’t find it in the print media anywhere on the net... Thanks...


20 posted on 07/28/2007 5:35:13 PM PDT by deport ( Cue Spooky Music...)
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