Second Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment Seizes Weapons, Suspects in Raids

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
RELEASE No. 20070523-06

BAGHDAD — The ongoing search for three Soldiers who disappeared in a May 12 attack near Yusufiyah, Iraq, continues to turn up caches of weapons and new suspects in the case.

Soldiers of Company C, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment conducted house-to-house searches southeast of Yusufiyah today, detaining 17 Iraqis and seizing a cache.

The Soldiers found an AK-47, a 9mm pistol, five magazines, a gas mask, two bandoliers, three ammunition vests, ten magazines and five other weapons,three of which were hidden in tennis-racket cases.

In another home the Soldiers found a modified cell phone, an AK-47, and another 9mm pistol, and next door, an AK-47 with an ammunition bandolier andfive magazines, and in a nearby house, another bandolier, gas mask, and a bayonet.

The detainees were taken to U.S. facilities for further questioning.