Iraqi citizens' information results in insurgents apprehension
CAMP BLUE DIAMOND, Iraq - Iraqi citizens in Fallujah demonstrated their desire to rid their city of insurgents by providing information that aided Iraqi and U.S. forces in counterinsurgency operations on two separate occasions Feb. 1.
A citizen provided information to Iraqi Army Forces around 1 p.m. regarding insurgents living in a specific house in southern Fallujah. The Iraqi Soldiers immediately went to the house. Upon searching the premises, they apprehended four insurgents and discovered: four RPG launchers, two Draganov sniper rifles, a suicide belt, two gas masks, an improvised rocket launcher, two 52mm rockets, three RPG motors and two grenades.
A citizen approached an Iraqi Public Order Battalion about 5 p.m.with information regarding a possible weapons cache in southern Fallujah. The Iraqi Public Order Battalion provided that information to U.S. Marines, who discovered: eight 155mm artillery rounds, two 122mm mortar rounds, six 152mm artillery rounds, 600 feet of detonation cord, 500 feet time-fuse-cord, two seismic detonators and two canisters of unknown explosives.
All of the munitions will be destroyed.
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