Citizens Turn in 4 Caches

Concerned citizens are still stepping up in Iraq to inform Coalition Forces where al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent groups are hiding, operating and more importantly, where they are storing their weapons and explosives. Recently in the Southern Belts region of Bahdad citizens led US forces to 4 caches:

MAHMUDIYAH, Iraq — Iraqi concerned citizens led Coalition Forces to four caches located in the southern belts around Baghdad Aug. 19.

Troops of Company B, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., and 4th Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, were alerted Aug. 19 there were two caches near a highway in the Mahmudiyah area.

The call came after a contractor hired to clean out canals in the North Hargawi area found two caches along the Mulla Fayyad Highway that contained a DShKa heavy machine-gun barrel, receiver, mount, seat and tripod, 133 green flares and 54 red flares.

A local citizen took Soldiers of Co. D, 4-31st Inf. Regt. to another cache, north of al-Taqa. It contained eight 57mm and nine 150mm canisters and two 50-pound bags
of homemade explosives.

Northwest, at Patrol Base Warrior Keep, near Sadr al-Yusufiyah, a concerned citizen brought a cache containing a 155mm round, 10 pounds of homemade explosive, and a pressure-bar trigger for an improvised explosive device to troops of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd BCT.

An explosive ordnance team destroyed all contents of the caches during a controlled detonation.

The citzenry have decided that it is safer to deal with the Americans, why? The American's do not indiscriminately kill people like the insurgent groups do.

The tide of public opinion in Iraq ahs turnned against the insurgents. The Iraqis ahve determined rightfully so that the biggest threat to their lives is not from US Forces but from the insurgents themselves. When the Western media begins to realize this and begins reporting on this instead of sticking with their anti-American rhetoric then the tide will turn for public opinion in this country too.

Iraq is won, it is the media that plays into the enemies hands that are prolonging it.