CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, uncovered a large weapons cache and detained a number of terror suspects.
Just days after assuming control of the western Baghdad region, the company unearthed a cache based on a tip received from a detainee.
In the cache, Soldiers found 32 homemade grenades, ten rocket-propelled grenade rounds, 500 Dragonov rounds, two cans 7.62mm ammunition, seven cans of grenade fuses, five RPG mortars, 12 AK-47 magazines and 2,500 7.62mm bullets.
In addition, just days prior to discovering the cache, Co. B was responsible for thwarting a vehicle-borne improvised-explosive device that was in its initial stages of preparation.
“This act undoubtedly saved many innocent Iraqi people and the lives of Coalition Forces,” said Staff Sgt. Andrew Atwater, battle noncommissioned officer for the battalion tactical operations center. “But the Soldiers didn’t stop there, the 2nd platoon apprehended two additional terrorist suspects who are now at the Internment Facility at Abu Ghraib.”
During the afternoon of July 5, 2nd Plt. detained two suspects exhibiting suspicious behavior near the Khan Dari Market. While manning a traffic control point in the Khan Dari area, Soldiers from the platoon stopped a vehicle with two individuals in it and began questioning them.
“Upon searching the vehicle, we discovered one AK-47 as well as a number of identification cards with different aliases and some money,” said 1st Lt. Jamar White, fire support officer, Co. B, 1st Bn., 22nd Inf. Regt.
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