Tips from local residents lead to weapons caches in Baghdad

Multi-National Division - Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD - Tips from local residents and Sons of Iraq led Iraqi National Police and Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers to several caches throughout the Baghdad area Sept. 2-3.

A tip from a local citizen led National Policemen from the 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st National Police Division to a cache in Baghdad's New Baghdad district at approximately 6:30 a.m. Sept. 2. The find included five explosively formed projectiles, three of which were made to look like rocks or boulders, a can of PKC ammunition, three rocket-propelled grenades with war heads, a sniper scope, four M4 magazines with ammunition, five RPGs with rockets, six anti-personnel rockets, a hand held radio and a bag of command wire.

Also in New Baghdad, Soldiers serving with Company D, 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, found a can of 12.7 mm rounds at approximately 7:30 a.m.

A local resident led Soldiers from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 30th Inf. Regiment, 4th BCT, 10th Mtn. Div., to a cache north of Baghdad at approximately 1 p.m. The munitions included three RPG launchers, 10 RPG-7 rounds, nine RPG Boosters, three sticks of plastic explosives, an assault rifle with magazine, a revolver, a pistol and 6,000 PKC rounds.

Soldiers serving with the 1st Battalion, 54th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, found a cache while searching empty houses in the Mansour district of Baghdad at approximately 4:45 p.m. The items included an RPG-7 launcher, a PKC machine gun and two rifles.

Soldiers serving with Company A, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, found to an improvised-explosive device and approximately 75 pounds of TNT, with help from an SOI leader, in the West Rashid district of Baghdad, at approximately 8:30 p.m.

Soldiers serving with Troop C, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st BCT, 4th Inf. Div., received a tip over the phone just after midnight Sept. 3 that led to a cache in the East Rashid district of Baghdad. The weapons seized included four claymore mines and nine RPG rounds, two of which were of Iranian-manufacture.

"The tips provided by local citizens and Sons of Iraq members have been instrumental in seizing these weapons," said Maj. Mark Cheadle, spokesman, Multi-National Division - Baghdad and the 4th Infantry Division. "Together with our Iraqi Security Forces partners, we have been able to quickly act on this information and remove these dangerous weapons from the streets of Baghdad and out of the hands of extremists."

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