Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
RELEASE No. 20070306-09
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
RADWANIYAH, Iraq — Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers discovered a weapons cache along the main highway into Baghdad Monday.
Soldiers from Troop A, 1st “Wolverines” Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) found the cache near the village of Radwaniyah, adjacent to the western side of the Baghdad International Airport.
The cache contained 10 fragmentation hand grenades, 165 mortar primers, eight 12.7 mm machinegun rounds, two bags of bulk explosives with blasting caps, a box with 100 blasting caps, 1,000 9mm pistol rounds, six hand grenade fuses, a bag of plastic explosives, 1,000 AK-47 rounds and an improvised explosive device.
The ammunition and explosives were collected and destroyed by an explosive ordnance detachment.
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