Largest Cache Ever, Found in Ameriya: Thanks to a Tip.

A tip lead Coalition and Iraqi Units to the western Baghdad neighborhood of Ameriya where they uncovered the largest cache ever found to date:

BAGHDAD — Multi-National Division – Soldiers uncovered the largest weapons cache found to date in the Ameriya neighborhood Aug. 14.

Acting on a tip called in by a resident, Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces conducted a search in the western Baghdad neighborhood, uncovering the cache in a woodworking shop. The Soldiers uncovered the cache, after finding a fake floor board in the shop.

The cache contained 265 mortar rounds of various sizes, 47 rockets of various sizes, 22 rocket-propelled grenade rounds, more than 50 land mines, 300 pounds of homemade explosive, more than 150 pounds of other explosive material and more than 70,000 rounds of small arms ammunition.

An explosive ordnance team was called in to evaluate the cache. EOD blew the ordnance and weapons on site.

That's a whole lot of IEDs and VBIEDS that will not be going off in Iraq. Fortunately for the local population, who are more often than not the targets of these devices because of the shock value of innocent civilians being slaughtered, the discovery of the cache means they are a lot safer.