4th Infantry Division Soldiers Seize Large Weapons Cache

NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
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Title:
MND-B SOLDIERS SEIZE LARGE WEAPONS CACHE
Release Date:
10/2/2006
Release Number:
06-01-02P
Description:
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, seized a large weapons cache northwest of Baghdad at approximately 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

The cache consisted of 141 rocket-propelled grenades, 150 RPG boosters, 186 fuses, 50 grenade bodies and a missile warhead.

An Explosive Ordnance Disposal team destroyed the weapons.

As of Friday, Iraqi Security Forces and MND-B Soldiers have cleared approximately 95,500 buildings, 79 mosques and 65 muhallas, detained more than 120 terrorist suspects, seized more than 1,700 weapons, registered more than 780 weapons and found 37 weapons caches in support of Operation Together Forward. The combined forces have also removed more than 195,841 cubic meters of trash from the streets of Baghdad.

For additional information concerning this release, contact the MULTI-National Division - Baghdad Public Affairs NCO In Charge, Master Sgt. Eric Lobsinger at: eric.lobsinger@mnd-b.army.mil , Commercial: (914) 822-8174 OR IRAQNA 011-964-790-192-4675.