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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14369&Itemid=21
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071001-02
October 1, 2007
Concerned local citizens turn in caches to Coalition Forces
Multi-National Division – Center PAO
PATROL BASE INCHON, Iraq — Concerned local citizens turned in two caches to Coalition Forces at Patrol Base Inchon Sept. 26.
Soldiers from Company D, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., took the cache from the concerned citizens and inventoried the contents.
The first cache consisted of 13 bags of homemade explosives, which were tested positive for Styphnic Acid.
This follows a similar cache of 51 bags of HME that were turned in earlier in the day by concerned citizens to Soldiers of 4-31 Inf. Regt.
The second cache contained 28 projectiles and four 155mm artillery shells formed as improvised explosive devices, five rockets and a Raven unmanned aerial vehicle.
Coalition Forces took the serial number off the Raven to track it back to the unit and time in which it was lost in flight.
The caches were destroyed during several controlled detonations conducted by an explosive ordnance disposal team.
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07090214.htm
Sunday, September 30, 2007
“Two Pastors And Church Believers Beaten Up By Hindu Radicals”
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “COORG, KARNATAKA, INDIA (ANS) — A 50 member group of Rashtriya Swayem Sevaks (RSS), a Hindu radical group, badly beaten up a pastor and church believers of the IPC Prayer center at Kodlipet in Coorg District, Karnataka State, during the Sunday worship service on September 30.
According to the news carried by Global Council of Indian Christians* (GCIC) on their website — www.persecution.in — at about 11.30 in the morning, about 50 Hindu radicals came to the church, shouting anti-Christian slogans. They entered the church and locked its back door and started thrashing the pastor and believers with rods and pipes.
Pastor Freddy, 34, the minister of the church and Pastor Benny, also 34, his colleague, were the ones who were leading the worship service in the church with about 50 believers.
Pastor Freddy, His Father Mr. Cherian (72 years), and Pastor Benny were beaten up badly and they have sustained serious head injuries. Both of them are being transported to Bangalore for better treatment. Two other believers were also injured in the attack.
Local municipal election poll results were declared this day and these radicals were celebrating their election victory. Pastor Freddy had been attacked earlier and was warned by the state police and intelligence agencies about a possible murder.”