Sadr City Update June 6 2008
Iraqi Army soldiers seized a weapons cache June 5 in Sadr City, marking the 100th cache the soldiers have seized since Operation Peace began May 20.
Iraqi Army soldiers from the 9th and 11th Iraqi Army Divisions are patrolling Sadr City to help protect citizens from the violence of Special Groups criminals that are operating in the neighborhoods.
IA soldiers have seized 114 improvised explosive devices, 60 explosively formed projectiles, 295 mortar rounds, 242 rocket propelled grenades, 163 homemade hand grenades,123 grenades, 109 anti-tank mines,11 rockets, six helicopter rockets, four anti-aircraft rockets, 21 tank rounds, 367 AK-47s, 41 artillery rounds, 39 RPG launchers, 23 mortar tubes, 11 rocket rails, 10 RPKs, six PKCs, seven machine guns, 24 rifles, 22 Siminov sniper rifles, eight pistols, an anti-aircraft gun, 62 kilograms of TNT, a crate of TNT, seven sticks of TNT, 20 one-liter cans of TNT, a box of TNT with ball bearings, other homemade explosives, bomb-making materials and a government truck.
“The Iraqi Army and its soldiers are true professionals and are diligently striving to safeguard the Iraqi people,” said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff of Multi-National Division – Baghdad and the 4th Infantry Division. “In less than a month, they have removed 100 caches of deadly weapons and munitions from the Sadr City District of Baghdad alone. That in itself is a remarkable accomplishment.”
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Iraqi Army soldiers seized weapons and munitions in the Sadr City district of Baghdad June 6 in their continuing efforts to improve security in the area.
The IA soldiers with 3rd Brigade, 1st IA Division, seized a BKC machine gun, 500 BKC rounds and a grenade at approximately 5:30 a.m.
At approximately the same time, soldiers with 3rd Bde., 1st IA Div., seized a cache consisting of four improvised-explosive devices, two 155 mm rounds, two sniper rifles, a sniper scope, a rocket-propelled grenade anti-tank round, two RPG-7 anti-personnel rounds, a 60 mm mortar tube and a RPG-7 launcher.
Soldiers from the same unit also seized a RPG-7 scope at approximately 6 a.m.
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