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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19655&Itemid=128

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080522-04
May 22, 2008

ISF, MND-B Soldiers take deadly weapons off streets of Baghdad
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers discovered weapons caches and prevented a potential deadly attack May 21 in Baghdad.

Soldiers from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, found a weapons cache at approximately 12:05 p.m. in the Kamaliya area of New Baghdad. Soldiers discovered 16 mortar charges; 26 shotgun shells; a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher scope; an RPG round and 35, 5.56mm rounds.

At approximately 1:30 p.m. in Kadhamiyah, Iraqi Army Soldiers from 5th Battalion, 22nd Brigade, 6th IA Division, found a 155mm artillery round rigged to be used as an improvised-explosive device; an RPG round; five AK-47s; a 60mm mortar tube with bipod; 1,000, 7.62mm rounds and several electric components.

A Sons of Iraq member alerted Soldiers from 4th BCT, 10th Mtn. Div., about a weapons cache in the Umar area of Rusafa at approximately 1:30 p.m. The Soldiers seized three 60mm mortar rounds; two 82mm mortar rounds; an RPG launcher with an RPG attached; an AK-47 and two fuses.

At approximately 2 p.m. in the Karkh district, IA Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 22nd Brigade, 6th IA Div., found a vehicle rigged with more than 80 pounds of explosives to be used as a car bomb. The IA Soldiers cordoned off the area to safeguard innocent locals.

The car detonated 15 minutes later, apparently as a result of terrorists realizing that the IAs had discovered the vehicle they were planning to use to kill innocent Iraqis. No one was injured as a result of the explosion.

Soldiers from 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, found two Katusha rockets and two rocket tubes west of Baghdad at approximately 5 p.m.

“The professional Soldiers of Multi-National Division – Baghdad and the Iraq Army continue to combine their efforts in taking these dangerous weapons off the streets of Baghdad,” said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff, MND-B and the 4th Infantry Division. “They are vigilant in safeguarding the Iraqi people.”

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