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AL-DHOUR — With two well-timed phone calls, Iraqi civilians made a few Soldiers’ day recently. The first tipster called Troop C, 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., and alerted them to a cache south of the village of Al-Dhour, south of Baghdad. The troop responded, located the buried weapons, and was only five minutes into the process of digging them up when they got another call. A man claimed he had the 2nd BCT’s top high-value target and would deliver him to coalition custody. The man and...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2006 – Over the past week, U.S. Marines discovered more than 10 tons of munitions hidden in Iraq's Euphrates River Valley. Troops elsewhere found and seized other weapons caches on New Year's Day. Marines found 72 cache sites about 25 miles south of Fallujah during the weeklong Operation Green Trident, officials said today. Marines from the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 8, kicked off the operation near the village of Latifiyah to search suspected locations for hidden weapon caches. More than 1,000 artillery and mortar rounds were unearthed along with scores of rocket-propelled grenades and hand...