Locals Working to Secure Their Environment

Members of the Concerned Local Citizens program in Hawr Rajab found several improvised explosive devices and explosive materials hidden in three seperate sites and took them to Coalition Forces for safe disposal Oct. 23.
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“The concerned citizens are facilitating a secure environment,” said Capt. Chad
Klascius, commander, Troop A, adding that in the past two weeks the Concerned
Local Citizens program in Hawr Rajab had removed 13 IEDs from the area.

Concerned Local Citizens find IEDs

FOB KALSU – Members of the Concerned Local Citizens program in Hawr Rajab found several improvised explosive devices and explosive materials and took them to Coalition Forces for safe disposal Oct. 23.

In three separate locations, concerned citizens led Soldiers to caches that contained one 122mm artillery shell, four two-liter bottles of homemade explosives, a bundle of four 57mm rounds and four blasting caps.

The citizens claimed that one cache was found in a home belonging to an individual on the Coalition’s wanted list.

All materials were destroyed in a controlled detonation pit at ECP 20, a joint security site manned by Paratroopers of Troop A, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, and Iraqi Soldiers from Company A, 5th Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division.

“The concerned citizens are facilitating a secure environment,” said Capt. Chad Klascius, commander, Troop A, adding that in the past two weeks the Concerned Local Citizens program in Hawr Rajab had removed 13 IEDs from the area.