MND-B helps Iraqi NP take weapons off streets

Multi-National Division - Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD - A tip led Iraqi National Police and Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers to secure and remove a large amount of weapons in eastern Baghdad.

National Police with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Brigade of the 2nd Division and a Platoon from Company A, 2nd Battalion of the 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, acted upon a tip giving the location of a weapons cache in a New Baghdad field at approximately 9:45 a.m.

Inventoried in the cache were two land mines, seven grenades, two grenade fuses, a one-pound bag of C-4, seven bricks of C-4, 12 assorted RPG-7s, a 100 mm artillery round, a single six-inch copper plate, eight RPG boosters, two bags of TNT and a one pound bag of explosive.

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