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June 10, 2005 Release Number: 05-06-01 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1-9 FA discovers enormous cache in Zafaraniya factory BAGHDAD, Iraq – A stockpile of materials used to make explosives was discovered June 5 by 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, at a factory in Northern Zafaraniya. The stockpile consisted of over 1,000 sub-munitions and 56,000 fuses. It was discovered after the owner of the factory met with a Coalition forces government support team, and told them that he wanted to open his factory but needed a pile of explosives removed from it first. Coalition Forces sent a patrol to the factory to...

CAMP BLUE DIAMOND, Iraq - Marines, Sailors and Soldiers assigned to Regimental Combat Team - 8, destroyed a large weapons cache and bunker system in Karmah, north of Fallujah June 5. Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition Forces discovered the large cache June 2, while conducting operations in the area. The site was an old rock quarry, approximately 170 meters wide by 275 meters long that contained an underground bunker. Within the various rooms of the facility, Iraqi Security and Coalition Forces discovered four fully furnished living spaces, a kitchen with fresh food, two shower facilities and a working air conditioner....

Iraqi Army and Task Force Baghdad soldiers captured 33 terror suspects, seized 2 million Iraqi dinars and confiscated a variety of bomb-making materials in a series of operations conducted June 8 and 9, military officials in Baghdad reported. The Iraqi Ministry of Interior's Wolf Brigade rounded up the largest capture: 23 suspects in an early-morning raid June 9. Also on June 9, three separate operations in central and south Baghdad yielded five more terror suspects, including one foreign fighter and two suspected members of a known terrorist cell. A day earlier in central Baghdad, Iraqi police captured another foreign fighter...

BAGHDAD (Army News Service, June 8, 2005) – A stockpile of materials used to make explosives were discovered June 5 by 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, at a factory in Northern Zafaraniya. The stockpile consisted of over 1,000 sub-munitions and 56,000 fuses. It was discovered after the owner of the factory met with a Coalition Forces Government Support Team, and told them that he wanted to open his factory but needed a pile of explosives removed first. Coalition Forces sent a patrol to the factory to determine the type of explosives on site. The factory owner, who preferred not to...

LONDON (Reuters) - A cache of guns, bugging devices and equipment that may have been used for torture has been discovered at Iraq's abandoned embassy in Britain, the country's newly appointed ambassador said on Wednesday. Scotland Yard confirmed "a number of firearms" had been recovered from the embassy in an upmarket area of southwest London but declined to say when. Dr Salah Al Shaikhly told BBC radio the arms haul, which dates to Saddam Hussein's period in power, included four machine guns, several Uzis and 10 handguns with silencers and had been found in one of the 20-odd safes at...

LATIFIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- Hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops searched fields and farms Saturday for insurgents and their hideouts in an area south of Baghdad known for attacks, and the Marines said they discovered 50 weapons and ammunition caches and a huge underground bunker west of the capital fitted out with air conditioning, a kitchen and showers. The joint U.S.-Iraqi force operating in Latifiyah to the south was backed by American air power and said it had rounded up at least 108 Iraqis, mainly Sunnis, suspected of involvement in the brutal insurgent campaign to topple the Shiite-led government. To...

Marines uncover bunker complex By Antonio Castaneda ASSOCIATED PRESS Published June 5, 2005 LATIFIYAH, Iraq -- U.S. Marines said yesterday they had discovered a massive underground bunker complex with 50 caches of weapons and ammunition and living quarters fitted out with air conditioning, a kitchen and showers.     In the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi forces said they had arrested a key terrorist leader linked to Syrian intelligence, who was responsible for numerous beheadings and car bomb attacks.     The Marines said the bunker complex, discovered over the past four days in Anbar province west of Baghdad, included a recently used "insurgent...

LATIFIYAH, Iraq (AP) - Hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops searched fields and farms Saturday for insurgents and their hideouts in an area south of Baghdad known for attacks, and the Marines said they discovered 50 weapons and ammunition caches and a huge underground bunker west of the capital fitted out with air conditioning, a kitchen and showers. The joint U.S.-Iraqi force operating in Latifiyah to the south was backed by American air power and said it had rounded up at least 108 Iraqis, mainly Sunnis, suspected of involvement in the brutal insurgent campaign to topple the Shiite-led government. To...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 4 - American marines have discovered an elaborate series of underground bunkers used recently by insurgents in central Iraq, with heavy weapons, a kitchen and fresh food, furnished living quarters, showers and even a working air-conditioner, the military said Saturday. The bunkers were built into an old rock quarry north of the town of Karma, an insurgent stronghold in Anbar Province that lies near the city of Falluja. The bunker system measures 546 feet by 883 feet, making it the largest underground insurgent hide-out to be discovered in at least the past year, if not during the...

LATIFIYAH, Iraq — Hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops searched fields and farms Saturday for insurgents and their hideouts in an area south of Baghdad known for attacks, and the Marines said they discovered 50 weapons and ammunition caches and a huge underground bunker west of the capital fitted out with air conditioning, a kitchen and showers.

RIDGEFIELD, N.J. -- Ridgefield police had to call in the National Guard to haul away 100,000 rounds of ammunition after finding nearly 500 guns in an elderly couple's home. The weapons range from pistols to machine guns. The home belongs to Sherwin and Elizabeth Raymond. Both are 82 years old. She suffers from Alzheimer's disease. He was a physician and gun enthusiast who was arrested in 1974 and charged with selling submachine guns, grenades and other weapons to two undercover federal agents. He's now charged with creating a hazardous situation and could face other charges. Federal officials plan to begin...

This came in from a retired AF LtCol, who got it from an Army E-9 who just got back from Iraq. Notice how much explosive material is available to terrorists over there! Click to view

MUMBAI: The Mumbai police have sized a huge cache of imported arms and ammunition worth over Rs 10 million after a raid on a bustling port, here officials said on Saturday. The arms, which were hidden in an oil tanker at the busy Jawaharlal Nehru Port, include 37 sophisticated revolvers and pistols and a large quantity of ammunition, said Mumbai Police Commissioner AN Roy. The crime branch of the local police conducted the raid late Friday on a tip-off, Roy told reporters, adding that one person had been arrested in this connection. "Our investigations are going on and we are...

The children reported the location of a cache to New Zealand soldiers working at a Provisional Reconstruction Team site near Bamian. BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, May 25, 2005 — Afghan children and local police led Coalition forces to three rockets and a missile May 24 near the town of Bamian. The children reported the location of a cache consisting of a rocket-propelled grenade, three mortars and approximately 40 small-arms rounds to New Zealand soldiers working at a Provisional Reconstruction Team site near Bamian. "These children were doing the right thing by reporting these munitions to Coalition forces," U.S. Army Maj. Michael...

Al- imaret police had arrested 5 form Anser al-sauna [Other spellings: Ansar Al-Sunna/Ansar Al-Sonna] group accused of implementing several attacks against some mosques in Baghdad. Iraqi Army had arrested Hamza Hasan, one of the wanted .In addition, arresting 2 photographers accused of taking pictures for a school during final examinations in al- sew era city. In Basra province, 9 tons of ammunition had been seized. Assassinations and car bombs had killed 5 Iraqis one of them is general detective in ministry of internal and the other is under secretary of Youth ministry. In Amiria, Iraqi police had found 7 bodies...

NEWS RELEASE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND 7115 South Boundary Boulevard MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101 Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 May 15, 2005 Release Number: 05-05-19 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IRAQI KIDS LEAD U.S. SOLDIERS TO WEAPONS CACHE BAGHDAD, Iraq – A group of Iraqi children led Task Force Baghdad Soldiers directly to a weapons cache in southeast Baghdad May 13. The Iraqi children showed the Soldiers where three rocket propelled grenades and 10 fuses were hidden. An explosives ordnance disposal team was called to the site and safely detonated the munitions. “The majority of Iraqis do...

(CBS) Federal investigators working on a nationwide illegal-weapons case discovered an arsenal of rocket launchers, hand grenades, machine guns and military explosives in a storage locker near Phoenix, Arizona. Authorities said among more than 200 weapons seized by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - An arms cache hidden by an Afghan warlord exploded in a bunker beneath his home early Monday, killing 28 people, injuring 13 and devastating surrounding buildings, officials said. The weapons were stored in Bashgah, a remote village in Baghlan province, 75 miles north of the capital, Kabul, Interior Ministry spokesman Latfullah Mashal said. It was not known what triggered the blast, official said. Afghanistan is awash with old weapons, many of them stored during the resistance against occupying Soviet forces during the 1980s. The explosion "damaged the whole village, including the mosque and six houses," Mashal told...

Arms cache blast under warlord's home kills 28 By Tom Coghlan in Kabul (Filed: 03/05/2005) An illegal arms dump exploded yesterday beneath the home of an Afghan warlord, killing at least 28 people. Officials said the explosion devastated a village in Baghlan province, 75 miles north of Kabul. The cause of the blast was unclear. The warlord, named as Jalal Bashgah, was not at his home at the time of the explosion, though eight members of his family were killed or injured. The blast injured more than 70 people and the number of dead was expected to rise. The Interior...

Iraqi soldiers find rusty but serviceable anti-aircraft gun KARMAH, Iraq — Iraqi Security Forces, under the supervision of U.S. Marines, unearthed a rusted but serviceable anti-aircraft weapon on Saturday, buried on the grounds of a mosque in the city of Karmah. The find came during a multiple-day mission that started about 3 a.m. Saturday as Marines from 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, and the ISF soldiers launched Operation Clear Decision, shutting down streets and confining residents to their homes as troops searched every house and business. The ISF soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Muthanna Brigade, found the weapon while using...