• Military Menu                       

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Industry
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• WMD
• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

Release A051108c

Citizen's tip leads U.S. Soldiers to bomb parts

Multi-National Force-Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Acting on a tip from an Iraqi civilian, Task Force Baghdad Soldiers discovered bomb-making materials Nov 6. in the back yard of an Abu Ghraib farmhouse.

The tip led Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, a unit from Fort Irwin, Calif., to five possible terrorist safe houses. The search began around 6 a.m. At noon, the Soldiers discovered cell phones and a video camera in a bucket buried behind the farmhouse.

This find led the unit to conduct a more extensive search of the area which netted several more items intended for improvised explosive device construction.

The Soldiers found one car battery, 10 cell phones with wires, four voltage regulators, one video camera, a ski mask, eight cell phones wired for IEDs, 15 feet of detonation cord, a washing machine timer, eight sticks of dynamite encased in rock plaster form, one 60-millimeter rocket, two 107-millimeter rockets, and plastic explosives.

- 30 -

TO OBTAIN THE PHOTOS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS RELEASE, CONTACT THE TASK FORCE BAGHDAD PUBLIC AFFAIRS PLANS AND OPERATIONS NCO, SGT. FIRST CLASS DAVID ABRAMS AT: DAVID.ABRAMS@ID3.ARMY.MIL.