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(Mamaroneck, N.Y.) Police say they found a cache of weapons and bomb-making materials at a Westchester County apartment last night. Police executed a search warrant at the apartment of 27-year-old Aaron John Gilbridge in Mamaroneck (muh-MARE-uh-neck). They uncovered four loaded rifles, an Uzi, cases of ammunition, brass knuckles, gravity knives, daggers, a clay compound similar to C-4 explosive, and a mock pipe bomb. Authorities also found a book called "The Anarchist Cookbook," which argues for change in society through violence and includes bomb-making instructions. Gilbridge could get seven years in prison if convicted of criminal possession of a weapon.

<p>TIKRIT, Iraq — U.S. forces captured a suspected leader of Saddam Hussein’s loyalist militia, nicknamed “The Rock,” after storming a workers’ hostel in a series of raids in Tikrit Thursday that netted four men suspected of plotting attacks, the military said. The man allegedly organized cells, paid guerrilla fighters and armed them with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles for attacks on U.S. forces in Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit and surrounding areas, said Lt. Col. Steve Russell, commander of the 22nd Infantry Regiment’s 1st Battalion, which executed the raids.</p>

U.S. Forces Arrest 19 Suspected Resistance Members in Iraq, Find Weapons in Series of Raids The Associated Press TIKRIT, Iraq Aug. 6 — U.S. forces said Wednesday they arrested 19 suspected members of the anti-U.S. resistance and killed another, and found a huge stockpile of weapons in a series of raids in northern Iraq. But the big prize Saddam Hussein remained elusive. Iraq's postwar recovery continued: In Baghdad, the U.S.-installed Governing Council asked for U.S. help in creating desperately needed jobs, while to the south in Diwaniyah, Spanish soldiers began setting up a base for troops from Spain and four...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 August 6, 2003Release Number: 03-08-11 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COALITION AND IRAQI PEOPLE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE BAGHDAD, Iraq – Support and cooperation from Iraqi citizens is enabling Coalition forces to seize weapons and detain former regime loyalists. Acting on a tip from a source about an extensive weapons cache stored at a former regime loyalist house in Baghdad, 1st Armored Division soldiers seized the weapons in a raid conducted on Aug. 4. Confiscated weapons and military gear included 31...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894   August 1, 2003Release Number: 03-08-01 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATTACKS AVOIDED, WEAPONS CONFISCATED IN NORTHERN IRAQ BAGHDAD, Iraq – Possible attacks were foiled and prevented as Coalition forces disrupted a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a fuel convoy and located a large weapons cache in northern Iraq. A rocket-propelled grenade ambush attack in northwest Iraq was foiled by soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at approximately 5 p.m. on July 31 by engaging and wounding an individual before he...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 July 29, 2003Release Number: 03-07-88 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEAPONS SIEZED IN MULTIPLE RAIDS BAGHDAD, Iraq – Possible attacks were prevented through the removal of enemy weapons during multiple raids throughout Iraq on July 28 by Coalition forces in support of the effort to create a secure environment. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) conducted a raid on a local café in search of a person who allegedly attacked various police stations in the Mosul area. The soldiers detained...

SA-7 GRAIL 9K32M Strela-2 HN-5 (Hongying 5) China Anza MKI - Pakistan Ayn as Saqr - Egypt The SA-7 GRAIL (Strela-2) man-portable, shoulder-fired, low-altitude SAM system is similar to the US Army REDEYE, with a high explsive warhead and passive infrared homing guidance. The HN-5 ( Hong Nu = Red Cherry ) is an improved Chinese version with upgraded capabilities. The SA-7 was the first generation of Soviet man portable surface-to-air missiles. Although classed as "fire and forget" types, the missiles were easily overcome by solar heat and, when used in hilly terrain, by heat from the ground. The SA-7...

4th ID Commander Reports Iraqis Providing Information, Attacks Lessening By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, July 25, 2003 — The July 22 deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay at the hands of U.S. forces who were tipped of by an Iraqi citizen is bringing forth intelligence information that has led to weapons seizures and the arrests of Saddam loyalists. During a video-teleconference briefing from Tikrit, Iraq, Army Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno told Pentagon reporters that recent tips from Iraqis have led to the discovery of several large caches of weapons and the...

Jewish World Review May 8, 2003 / 6 Iyar, 5763 Jack Kelly Dispatches from the Desert: Ammo boxes in trucks get attention of soldiers http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | WESTERN IRAQ It makes you feel like a proud father," said First Sgt. Jim Gowdy. "They do listen." Gowdy has four sons back home in Canon City, Colo., and 140 more in the enlisted ranks of the Army's Apache troop, Tiger Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. "It's funny how my guys can go from boys to men in a matter of minutes," Gowdy said. "This isn't something we practiced. But they did great." The...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Police in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, are searching the city for 19 suspected terrorists who left behind an arms cache after a shootout with security forces, Agence France-Presse reported. The exchange of fire took place late yesterday as police hunted for the people behind a March 18 bomb attack in Riyadh's Jazeera district that killed one person, AFP said. The arms found in the suspects' hideout and an abandoned getaway car include 55 hand grenades, 377 kilograms (829 pounds) of explosives and 2,545 bullets, along with $72,957 in cash, travel documents, communications...

300 Iraqi Mortar Rounds Go BoomOver 300 Iraqi mortar rounds of Jordanian origin are disposed of in a large explosion by U.S. Army Special Forces and 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit personnel on the hillsides near Mosul, Iraq April 16, 2003. Coalition forces are discovering and disposing of large weapons caches throughout Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom(OIF). OIF is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jerry Morrison)

More civilians are being injured or killed in northern Iraq now than during the war, largely due to the breakdown of law and order and the dangers of abandoned caches of Iraqi arms, a human rights group said Sunday. The New York-based group Human Rights Watch said it studied civilian injuries and deaths at five hospitals and morgues in the northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul. Health workers reported daily weapons-related injuries, both intentional and accidental, and many of the victims were children who played with unexploded ordnance, it said. "In some ways, the peace has proved more lethal than...

FORMER Iraqi prime minister Tariq Aziz has told American intelligence officials that he has not seen Saddam Hussein since the first night of the war, it was claimed last night. Aziz, who surrendered to US forces last week, has fuelled speculation that the Iraqi dictator was killed or seriously injured when the bunker in which he was hiding with his sons has hit by cruise missiles. According to US intelligence sources, the 67-year-old has said he does not know whether Saddam is alive or dead. However, he has told his captors he presumes the former Iraqi leader was incapacitated as...

<p>MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spain has ordered seven Iraqi officials in Madrid to leave the country by Wednesday after 21 guns and 800 rounds of ammunition were found at the Iraqi Embassy in Madrid, Spain's Foreign Ministry said Monday.</p> <p>But two other Iraqi diplomats -- including the one who told Spain about the weapons cache -- will not be expelled, and the embassy will remain open, the Foreign Ministry said.</p>

Spain expels Iraqi envoys after arms cache find MADRID, April 14 (Reuters) - Spain has ordered the expulsion of six Iraqi diplomats after Iraq's top envoy confessed there was a cache of weapons and ammunition at the embassy, diplomatic sources said on Monday. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said six diplomats and one other member of embassy staff had received their expulsion orders on Sunday and had 72 hours to leave the country. "Six diplomats have been declared 'persona non grata'," the ministry spokesman said. No official reason was given for the expulsions. The charge d'affaires, Iraq's most senior diplomat in...

MAHMUDIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Six U.S. soldiers were wounded, at least two of them seriously, when an Iraqi paramilitary hurled a hand grenade at them as they removed mortars from a weapons cache south of Baghdad. Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division were taking mortars into the front courtyard of a Baath Party office compound in Mahmudiya, 15 miles south of Baghdad, when a car stopped behind a crowd outside, a man jumped out and flung the grenade. Six soldiers were flown by helicopter to a field hospital inside Iraq and at least 10 more were listed as walking wounded....

Weapons Cache for Saddam's Son Odai Found By CHRIS TOMLINSON .c The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. soldiers stumbled Friday upon the personal weapons cache of President Saddam Hussein's son Odai, finding boxes of assault rifles and dozens of ceremonial firearms in an abandoned house. The infantry company was searching through a Baath Party enclave when they made the discovery of Odai Hussein's collection inside the home. Many of the weapons were apparently already looted; there were hundreds of Beretta 9mm pistol boxes, but no pistols. But not everything was gone. There were dozens of gold- and silver-plated...

Embedded CNN Reporter Recounts Battle Of Baghdad University NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A 45-minute pitched battle Wednesday between U.S. Marines and Iraqi fighters entrenched in Baghdad University ended without casualties on the U.S. side, Martin Savidge, a Cable News Network embedded with the First Marines, 7th Battalion, reported. Savidge said in a CNN interview that the Marines encountered heavy Iraqi sniper fire as they approached the university. He said that when his Marine convoy entered the southeast of the city, it was met by a large number of Iraqi civilians cheering them and flashing victory signs. The U.S. forces' initial reaction...

UK troops find Jordanian munitions cache in Iraq By David Fox EAST OF BASRA, Iraq, March 31 (Reuters) - British troops have discovered a huge cache of munitions in cases marked "Jordan Armed Forces" just outside Basra. A Reuters team filmed and photographed the cache, around 5 km (three miles) east of Iraq's second biggest city, and on Monday British bomb disposal experts prepared to blow it up. "I don't know exactly how much there is. We aren't exactly going to hang around and count it," said one British officer guarding the cache. "It's a bloody lot though. Obviously for...

U.S. Captures Big Afghan Arms Cache, Detain Seven Thu Sep 19, 7:39 AM ET BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. special forces have captured seven men suspected of being Taliban fighters and truckloads of weapons in an operation near the border with Pakistan, the U.S. military said on Thursday. The arms found at Orgun-e, about 109 miles south of Kabul on Wednesday filled three trucks and included rockets, mines and two anti-aircraft guns, U.S. military spokesman Colonel Roger King said. He called it "a significant haul." "The anti-aircraft weapons are probably particularly significant in that we do a lot of movement...