Citizens Turn in Weapons Caches

Citizens in Arab Jabour and al-Buaytha both delivered weapons caches to US Forces stationed on picket lines to prevent insurgent activity:

ARAB JABOUR – Concerned citizens in Arab Jabour and al-Buaytha found weapons caches and turned them over to Coalition troops Sept. 11.

Arab Jabour citizens delivered a weapons cache in a Bongo truck to the Soldiers of Company C, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Sept. 11 while they were conducting a picket line on a local highway.

Picket lines employ stationary security vehicles positioned on roads traveled by Coalition Forces to prevent insurgent activity.

An explosive ordnance disposal team was called to destroy the cache, which consisted of 250 12.7mm rounds, one 122mm rocket warhead, 31 rocket propelled grenades, 15 propelled chargers, one rocket propelled grenade launcher, one
rocket propelled grenade mortar, two 60 mm mortars and other bomb-making materials.

In al-Buaytha, concerned citizens delivered a weapons cache to the Soldiers of Company A, 1-30th Inf. Regt.

Concerned citizens delivered the contents of the cache to the Soldiers while they were conducting a picket line on a road north of Patrol Base Murray.

The cache consisted of 16 57mm anti-aircraft rounds and was taken to PB Murray by an explosive ordnance disposal team.

That was quite a risk those citizens took, moving the caches and delivering them to the US Forces. I'm sure at soem point in there the pucker factor was at an all time high as the troopers discovered that teh locals were hauling in explosives for them to destroy.