Cavalry Troops Search Cemetery, Looking for Weapons Caches

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
RELEASE No. 20070122-07

Spc. Chris McCann
2nd BCT, 10th Mtn. Div. (LI) Public Affairs

STRONG POINT 142, Iraq – Multi-National Division – Baghdad troops made a careful entry into a Muslim cemetery near the former Qaqaa Water Treatment Facility on the banks of Iraq’s Euphrates River Jan. 12 to search for weapons caches.

Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, attached to the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) had been told by local Iraqi residents that terrorists used the cemetery for storing weapons, skirted the area on a reconnaissance mission the night before ensuring that the area was clear.

At first light the next morning, 2-5 Cav troopers set out with four Iraqi Army soldiers. They waded through canals and across muddy fields to enter the cemetery.

“Don’t step on any graves,” said Company A commander Capt. Richard Ince of Georgetown, Texas, as his Soldiers began moving in.
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