Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
RELEASE No. 20080818-04
Aug. 18, 2008

ISF, MND-B Soldiers confiscate weapons caches throughout Baghdad
Multi-National Division – Baghdad

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized weapons throughout the Baghdad area Aug. 17.
 
IA soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 22nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division and Soldiers from Company B, 1st Squadron, 75 Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, seized 28 AK-47s, a British rifle and two Simonov rifles in a sweep of a neighborhood in the Kadamiyah district of northern Baghdad at approximately 6 a.m.

Police with the 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st National Police Division and MND-B Soldiers from Company D., 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, confiscated an AK-47 and a 155mm artillery shell at approximately 10:45 a.m. in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad.

At approximately 2:15 p.m., a local Iraqi led a patrol from Company C, 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, to a munitions cache north of Baghdad. The cache contained an anti-tank mine, two 120 mm mortar rounds, an 80 mm mortar round, two training bombs, 50 57 mm projectiles, one 120 mm and one 70 mm projectile.

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