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WEAPONS CACHE SEIZED IN ADHAMIYAH
WEAPONS CACHE SEIZED IN ADHAMIYAH
Sunday, April 08, 2007 6:50 PM
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BAGHDAD - Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team found and detonated a weapons cache uncovered April 5 in the Adhamiyah district.
Soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment made the discovery while clearing an suspected insurgent safe house located near the Abu Haneefa Mosque. The cache was hidden in an underground bunker beneath a courtyard behind the safe house.
Weapons recovered included a sniper rifle outfitted with a scope and a silencer, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, two L2A3 submachine guns, one PKM, mortar, land mines, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a variety of bomb-making materials, including 20 pounds of homemade explosives.
An explosive ordnance team conducted a controlled detonation of the explosives at the site, after notifying the local Imam to make sure no damage to the Mosque occurred.
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