‘Cache House’ Uncovered In Eastern Baghdad

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
RELEASE No. 20061221-10



2nd BCT, 2nd Inf. Div. PAO

FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq – Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 26thInfantry Regiment discovered a weapons cache in a suspected militia safe house in eastern Baghdad Dec. 19.

While establishing a cordon around the suspected house, 1-26th Soldiers came under small arms fire and responded by hurling a grenade, which killed an insurgent. Once inside, the unit discovered a large cache of weapons and rounds including 30,000 rounds of ammunition, 200 mortar rounds, one prefabricated improvise dexplosive device, two suicide vests, two suicide belts, 20 107mm rockets, 31 grenades,10 AK-47s, six machine guns, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 20 propanetanks, and four anti-tank mines.

Also recovered were materials used to forge identification cards, and 20 walkietalkies.

The arms and munitions were confiscated for further examination.