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NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 January 9, 2004Release Number: 04-01-20 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IRAQI CITIZENS TURN IN WEAPONS CACHES MOSUL, Iraq – Concerned citizens turned in large caches of weapons Jan. 7 to soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in northwest Iraq. Two high level Ba’ath Party officials, one from the town of Tal Afar and one from Zumar, turned in weapons to soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team (BCT). The collections included 69 AK-47s, 98 magazines, 98 82-millimeter mortar rounds and...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 January 4, 2004Release Number: 04-01-11 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TASK FORCE “ALL-AMERICAN” CAPTURES ARMS DEALERS, CONFISCATES ILLEGAL ARMS AR RAMADI, Iraq – During the past 24 hours, the 82nd Airborne Division and subordinate elements, also known as Task Force “All-American,” conducted 167 patrols, five of which were joint patrols with Iraqis, and carried out five offensive operations. During these operations, three enemy personnel were killed and 70 were captured. Entry was denied to 225 people at the border crossing at Trebil...

The US military has arrested 128 suspects and seized large quantities of arms and explosives during 24 hours of raids across western Iraq, it has announced. The suspects were netted in operations on Friday local time by three divisions across the vast Anbar province, which stretches from near Baghdad to the borders with Syria and Jordan, a statement issued by US Central Command said. The 82nd Airborne Division conducted 151 patrols and carried out searches in the area, arresting 78 suspects and preventing 105 people from entering illegally through the Syrian frontier, it said. In searches by paratroopers in the...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 January 3, 2004Release Number: 04-01-07 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TASK FORCE “ALL AMERICAN” SOLDIERS CONFISCATE WEAPONS AR RAMADI, Iraq – The 82nd Airborne Division and its subordinate units, also known as Task Force “All American”, continued missions Thursday to capture enemy personnel who continue violence against coalition forces and the people of Al Anbar. During the last 24 hours, the 82nd Airborne Division and subordinate elements conducted 151 patrols, nine of which were joint patrols with Iraqis, and carried out four...

<p>January 3, 2004 -- BAGHDAD - GIs raided a mosque in Baghdad, seizing a large cache of explosives, as enemy fire in central Iraq brought down a U.S. helicopter and killed the pilot. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, a U.S. military spokesman, said yesterday troops had conducted the Thursday operation at al-Tabool mosque after a tip from Iraqis and netted a wide array of weaponry to be used against U.S. forces.</p>

MOSUL, Iraq - A dozen former leaders of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party have handed in weapons caches in northern Iraq to curry favor with the U.S. military and claim a role in a new Iraqi leadership, the commander of the Army's 101st Airborne Division said.   "They're coming to us, saying they want to be part of the new Iraq," Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press. "It has slowly sunk in that Saddam isn't coming back." Separately, the 101st Airborne has paid more than $20,000 in rewards in recent weeks to a...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - US soldiers seized a large cache of weapons when they raided a Sunni mosque in southwestern Baghdad on Thursday and arrested 32 people, including foreign nationals, the coalition's deputy director of operations, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, said. Three packages of TNT explosives, a 60 mm mortar tube, eight improvised grenades, bomb-making equipment, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 11 assault rifles and two bags of gunpowder were among the weapons recovered in the raid, he told reporters, showing them a slide presentation. "Over the last several months, the First Armoured Division in Baghdad has received numerous reports from local...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 December 31, 2003Release Number: 03-12-84 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 101ST LOCATES NUMEROUS WEAPONS CACHES IN NORTHERN IRAQ MOSUL, Iraq – Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) discovered weapons caches Dec. 30 in and around the city of Mosul. In the 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) area of operations a source led soldiers to a group of freshly dug holes, one of which contained two bags full of 82-millimeter mortar rounds. Also a local civilian guided forces to a cache...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 December 30, 2003Release Number: 03-12-78 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SIGNIFICANT WEAPONS CACHE CONFISCATED TIKRIT, Iraq – Task Force Ironhorse Second Infantry’s Arrowhead Brigade soldiers discovered a significant weapons cache southeast of Samarra in the morning of Dec. 29. Some of the items located were found in a false wall. The cache consisted of 43 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 79 rocket-propelled grenades, 19 AK-47 assault rifles, one machine gun, one 40mm grenade launcher, six 60mm mortar tubes with base plates, 7,920 rounds of...

TIKRIT, Iraq, Dec. 29, 2003 — An Iraqi citizen provided information to U.S. Air Force airmen concerning a large weapons cache that he said consisted of close to 600 rockets, according to U.S. Central Command officials. The Air Force in turn asked the U.S. Army for assistance. Air Force personnel and a patrol from 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment went to the identified site in the evening of Dec. 27 to investigate. Officials said the intelligence acquired suggested the rockets could be found hidden in some undergrowth along the river next to a tree line. After a short search, the...

By Robin Pomeroy KADISAYA, Iraq (Reuters) - The fresh produce on the floor outside made it look like any other Iraqi greengrocer's, but the Saddam Hussein portrait hanging inside led a passing U.S. army patrol to take a closer look. A quick search through baskets of vegetables and bags of seeds on Friday uncovered a stash of ammunition, explosives, detonators and one rocket-propelled grenade. The only thing missing was the shopkeeper who had apparently vanished. The chance find was significant for the Cougar tank company which patrols the area north of Tikrit, Saddam's home town where he still enjoys open...

KADISAYA, Iraq (Reuters) - The fresh produce on the floor outside made it look like any other Iraqi greengrocer's, but the Saddam Hussein portrait hanging inside led a passing U.S. army patrol to take a closer look. A quick search through baskets of vegetables and bags of seeds on Friday uncovered a stash of ammunition, explosives, detonators and one rocket-propelled grenade. The only thing missing was the shopkeeper who had apparently vanished. The chance find was significant for the Cougar tank company which patrols the area north of Tikrit, Saddam's home town where he still enjoys open support from the...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 December 17, 2003Release Number: 03-12-39 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TASK FORCE “ALL AMERICAN” DISCOVERS WEAPONS CACHES AR RAMADI, Iraq - The 82d Airborne Division and attached units, also known as Task Force “All American,” continued security operations within the Al Anbar Province. Task Force “All American’s” 1st Brigade Combat Team conducted a route reconnaissance east of Ar Ramadi when they noticed freshly dug earth. Upon further investigation, they found two substantial caches. Discovered were three SA-7 launchers, 11 SA-6 warheads, 15...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 December 12, 2003Release Number: 03-12-30 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4TH ID SOLDIERS CAPTURE FEDAYEEN AND CONFISCATE LARGE WEAPONS CACHE TIKRIT, Iraq – In an early morning raid in Tikrit on Dec. 11, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment soldiers captured four Fedayeen members and confiscated a significant amount of weapons and ammunition that were hidden throughout the house including under the mattresses of sleeping children and buried in the garden. Soldiers confiscated three AK-47 assault rifles, one rocket propelled grenade launcher, one...

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces have arrested three men suspected of heading Iraqi rebel cells in their homes and say they seized a cache of weapons big enough to launch 50 guerrilla attacks. In the front garden of one of the two houses raided in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit in the early hours of Thursday, soldiers dug up a hoard of rifles, grenades and explosives that the commanding officer described as "a Fedayeen candy shop". "This is mission-oriented. This is stuff they dole out," said Lieutenant Colonel Steve Russell of the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division. "They are...

LONDON (AP) — Buster, a 6-year-old Springer spaniel, earned more than a pat on the head Tuesday when he was awarded Britain's highest animal bravery medal for his role in breaking a resistance cell in Iraq. The British army canine received the Dickin Medal at a ceremony at London's Imperial Museum for discovering a cache of weapons and explosives in Safwan, southern Iraq, in March. Buster's handler, Sgt. Danny Morgan, said the building was thought to be the headquarters of extremists responsible for attacks on British forces, but that soldiers searching it had found nothing. He said Buster, however, persisted,...

              Italian personnel catalogue weapons seized from a hidden cache,         including 151 rocket propelled grenade launchers. (Click here for high resolution version)      http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/images/misc/it_wpns.jpg

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 December 8, 2003Release Number: 03-12-17 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 101ST CONDUCTS RAIDS, ROUNDS UP SUSPECTS, WEAPONS CACHES IN NORTHERN IRAQ MOSUL, IRAQ – The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in conjunction with Iraqi Police Forces detained six individuals suspected of involvement in attacks on Coalition Forces during raids Dec. 7 in northern Iraq. The division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) detained one person wanted for attacks on Coalition Forces during a “cordon-and-knock” South of Mosul. Later in the day, the 1st...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894   December 7, 2003Release Number: 03-12-15 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “BULLDOG” BRIGADE DETAINS 43, CAPTURES WEAPONS CACHES BAGHDAD, IRAQ – Soldiers from Task Force 1st Armored Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team struck at insurgent elements in the Al Mansor district on the west side of the city Thursday. The operation, part of Task Force 1st Armored Division’s Operation “Iron Justice,” included 3rd Brigade units, attack helicopters, military police elements, and 300 Iraqi Civil Defense Corps guardsmen. More than 1,200 apartments in...

CJTF-7 Public Affairs BAGHDAD, Iraq  82nd Airborne Division continues to uncover caches AR RAMADI, Iraq – 82nd Airborne Division, also know as Task Force “All American,” conducted missions over the past 24-hours focused on defeating former regime loyalists, criminals, and terrorists and assisting to re-establish a safe and secure environment. The 82d Abn. Div. has conducted three offensive operations, all of which were cordon and searches.  Soldiers also carried out 167 patrols, including eight joint patrols with the Iraqi Border Guard and Iraqi Police, manned 47 observation posts along Highway 10.  During this time, one enemy personnel was wounded...