December 18, 2006

Raid by Stryker Troops Nets Cache

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
RELEASE No. 20061218-30


2nd BCT, 2nd Inf. Div. Public Affairs

FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq – Soldiers with the 5-20 Stryker Battalion found success in another cordon and search against insurgents Dec. 17 in eastern Baghdad.

The operation found six AK-47s with 13 magazines, two homemade zip guns, one rocket-propelled grenade launcher with a bag of grenades, three improvised explosive devices, one 9mm submachine gun with three magazines, one saber, one brass knuckle/knife combination and one .22-caliber single shot rifle.

The raid also uncovered a computer and two gas masks with filters.

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