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Release A050923f

Citizen's tip leads Combat Engineers to weapons cache

Multi-National Force-Iraq

TAJI, Iraq – Task Force Baghdad Soldiers found a weapons cache while conducting offensive operations to disrupt anti-Iraqi forces activity north of Baghdad.

The Soldiers, from the 70th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division discovered the cache at 6:40 a.m. Sept. 21 after receiving a tip from an Iraqi citizen.

The cache consisted of one shotgun, one rifle, two bolt-action rifles, one 9 mm pistol, one mortar sighting device, one rocket-propelled grenade launcher sight, 12 rocket-propelled grenades, 20 60 mm mortar fuses, two grenades, an ammo belt of automatic rifle rounds, 275 AK-47 magazines and ammunition, and one machine gun mechanism.

The unit confiscated the equipment while a military explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the ammunition.

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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS RELEASE, CONTACT THE TASK FORCE BAGHDAD PUBLIC AFFAIRS PLANS AND OPERATIONS NCO, SGT. FIRST CLASS DAVID ABRAMS AT: DAVID.ABRAMS@ID3.ARMY.MIL.