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Paper says militants rigged Koran with explosives Wed 12 November, 2003 08:06 RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim militants planning attacks in Saudi Arabia's holiest city, Mecca, booby-trapped copies of Islam's holy book, the Koran, to kill and maim pilgrims, a leading Saudi-owned newspaper has reported. The London-based daily Asharq al-Awsat on Wednesday quoted Saudi security sources as saying that this novel weapon was discovered in the arms caches police found after raiding militant hideouts in Mecca and the capital Riyadh in recent weeks. Suspected al Qaeda militants killed at least 18 people this week in a suicide car bombing at a...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 November 11, 2003Release Number: 03-11-10 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4TH ID SECURES LARGE CACHES OF ROCKETS AND MUNITIONS TIKRIT, Iraq – In three separate incidents on Nov. 9, Task Force Ironhorse soldiers located large weapons caches that had the potential to be used against innocent Iraqis and Caoalition forces. The 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor soldiers received a report from an AH-64 helicopter that identified a location south of Baji as a possible weapons cache site. They went to the site and...

CJTF-7 Public Affairs BAGHDAD, Iraq Cooperation leads to weapons caches TIKRIT, IRAQ – Information is one of the most valuable tools that assist Coalition forces in stopping deadly attacks that kill, wound and maim innocent Iraqi citizens and Coalition soldiers.  Throughout Task Force Ironhorse, on a daily basis, concerned Iraqis offer vital information to the Coalition with the hope that the bloodshed will end. During the afternoon of November 8th, an Iraqi Civil Defense Corps member told 4th Infantry Division soldiers from 3-16 Field Artillery Battalion about an area near Rashidiyah that he believed was a mortar cache.  Soldiers went...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 November 9, 2003Release Number: 03-11-06 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 101ST, NEW IRAQI SECURITY FORCES FIND CACHES, DETAIN CRIMINALS MOSUL, IRAQ – The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) soldiers and Iraqi security forces confiscated two weapons caches and detained 13 individuals during routine patrols conducted Nov. 8 in northern Iraq. The new Sinjar Police arrested eight people who were conducting an illegal checkpoint yesterday afternoon, and turned them over to Coalition forces as the detainees claimed affiliation with the Patriotic Union of...

CJTF-7 Public Affairs BAGHDAD, Iraq   Local source leads paratroopers to weapons cache AL FALLUJAH, Iraq – Paratroopers from the 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment found a large weapons cache 20 miles northeast of Al Fallujah Nov 6.  The troops received the information about the cache from a local sheik.  The sheik, who has worked with coalition forces in the past, brought in a laser-guided anti-tank missile when he supplied the information.   The coalition soldiers confiscated three complete 82mm mortar systems, 66 60mm mortar rounds, 60 82mm mortar rounds, 50 120mm fuses, 1260 14.5mm rounds, 1000 14.5mm armor-piercing...

Steve Harrigan reported on Greta's show that Soldiers in Iraq were tipped off by an informant of some buried weapons. Coalition forces went to the site and dug up a large cache of weapons and destroyed them. But as they were leaving they heard rumbling underneath the ground and went back to the site. There was an even larger cache of weapons that had started to explode which was buried even deeper than the first.

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. forces acted on a tip about an Iraqi weapons supply Thursday and ended up discovering a much larger find — a hidden cache of buried surface-to-air missiles and mines.</p> <p>Military officials are still tallying the cache but have retrieved at least 317 4-foot rockets and 220 anti-tank mines. Fox News had exclusive access to the military during the operation about 45 miles south of Baghdad.</p>

101st Uncovers More Weapons Caches in Iraq American Forces Press Service MOSUL, Iraq, Oct. 21, 2003 -- Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) discovered four weapons caches Oct. 20. In the first incident, soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team discovered a cache of 26 60 mm mortar rounds southeast of Anzalla Pump Station. Later that afternoon, soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment discovered 60 81 mm mortar rounds and 20 detonator fuses at Forward Operating Base Q-West. Soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team discovered two caches about 10 kilometers south of Mosul....

Iraqi Civilian Uses Business Skills to Take Down Missiles By Spc. Joshua M. Risner, USASpecial to American Forces Press Service DOHUK, Iraq, Oct. 15, 2003 – Thanks to an Iraqi civilian's actions, a load of 188 SA-7 surface-to-air missiles are headed to Mosul for disposal. The missiles are shoulder-fired weapons, similar to a rocket-propelled grenade in operation, according to Sgt. 1st Gilbert Ortiz, G-3, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). "Just one of these things is capable of taking down an aircraft," he said. "They could also be used as improvised explosive devices." Pfc. Scott Cothren, of Battery B, 1st...

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops said they had found surface-to-air missiles and hundreds of other weapons including plastic explosives buried in an orchard near Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown on Saturday. A U.S. military spokesman described the haul as one of the most significant weapons seizures of recent weeks and a sign of how Saddam loyalists were still equipped to pose a threat to U.S. forces. He said 23 SA-7 surface-to-air missiles were found as well as 1,000 pounds of plastic explosives, 500 hand grenades, dozens of mortar bombs and hundreds of detonators which could be used...

TIKRIT, Iraq - U.S. troops uncovered one of their biggest weapons caches to date Saturday at a farm near Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s birthplace, including anti-aircraft missiles and a huge quantity of explosives used to make the homemade bombs that have killed numerous American soldiers. In the second raid in as many days on a farm near the village of Uja, where Saddam was born and the site of a recent bomb attack against American soldiers, U.S. troops acting on a tip dug through the soft earth near a river bank and found the cache underneath a covering...

TIKRIT, Iraq - U.S. troops uncovered one of their biggest weapons caches to date Saturday at a farm near Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s birthplace, including anti-aircraft missiles and a huge quantity of explosives used to make the homemade bombs that have killed numerous American soldiers. In the second raid in as many days on a farm near the village of Uja, where Saddam was born and the site of a recent bomb attack against American soldiers, U.S. troops acting on a tip dug through the soft earth near a river bank and found the cache underneath a covering...

<p>TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) U.S. troops uncovered one of their biggest weapons caches to date Saturday at a farm near Saddam Hussein's birthplace, including anti-aircraft missiles and a huge quantity of explosives used to make the homemade bombs that have killed numerous American soldiers.</p>

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 September 13, 2003Release Number: 03-09-10 IRAQI CITIZENS' TIPS AID COALITION FORCES MOSUL, Iraq - the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division detained an Iraqi man and his brother on Sep. 11 for violating Coalition weapons laws. A walk-in source said he knew where an individual lived who was hiding a weapons cache. Second Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment immediately sent a quick reaction force to the location of the house. The soldiers confronted the man, asking whether he...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 September 13, 2003Release Number: 03-09-11 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHECKPOINT GUNFIRE LEADS TO WEAPONS CACHE MOSUL, IRAQ – Six Iraqis were detained after they attempted to run a checkpoint near the towns of Saff At Tuth Isfia and Talul An Nasir in the 101st Airborne Division’s area on Sep. 10. Subsequent operations resulted in the discovery of a large weapons cache in one of their homes. Soldiers of 1st Brigade Combat Team fired warning shots when a van and motorcycle refused...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (September 7, 8:40 a.m. PDT) - U.S. forces around Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit have uncovered a cache of weapons and ammunition hidden in a row of bunkers residents dubbed the "RPG shopping center," the military said Sunday. The discovery Saturday included wire-guided surface-to-surface Sager missiles, 315 rocket-propelled grenades and 62 mortar shells, said Maj. Josslyn Aberle, a spokeswoman. Also, two surface-to-air missiles were fired Saturday at a coalition aircraft as it left Baghdad International Airport, the U.S. military said. Coalition forces are increasingly being attacked from a distance by mortars and remote-controlled homemade bombs, a possible change...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 September 6, 2003Release Number: 03-09-05 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEAPONS CACHE DISCOVERED IN 3rd BRIGADE AREA MOSUL, Iraq - The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) is making significant progress to find and destroy weapons caches in the 3rd Brigade area of operations. Local sources led 2nd Battalion soldiers to an enemy weapons cache south of Bajar. The cache consisted of a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, four AK47s, one 9mm pistol, one assault rifle, 38 RPG booster rockets, 500 rounds of machinegun ammunition,...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - With U.S. troops watching from a distance, dozens of Iraqi police stormed a farm near Tikrit on Saturday in what the Americans said was a promising sign that Iraqis are beginning to take responsibility for their own security. The police raid in Saddam Hussein's hometown, 120 miles north of Baghdad, showed signs of confusion. The Iraqi police commander who led the raid said he believed that boxes of ammunition and artillery fuses unearthed in a dusty field were buried by the Iraqi army, contradicting the Americans who insisted the Russian-made equipment was recently hidden by...

U.S. teams all over Iraq are turning up arms caches, but rarely does a unit find a huge stash of dangerous weapons so close to home that the devices could have killed them and their buddies as they slept in their cots. But that’s exactly what the “Hunter” platoon did Thursday. Acting on a tip from an informer, the platoon found a major weapons stash right outside its perimeter. Col. Rob Baker, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Armored Division, said Friday that the Hunters found 123 pounds of C-4 explosive, 47 rocket-propelled grenades, seven grenade launchers, 3,000...

<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi police arrested at least 11 suspected militants and seized a large weapons cache in southern Jazan province that included rockets and explosive chemicals, newspapers reported Saturday.</p> <p>One paper said as many as 21 people were arrested.</p>