1st ID Soldiers Seize Weapons Cache

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1st ID Soldiers Seize Weapons Cache

BAQUBAH, Iraq - 1st Infantry Division Soldiers detained three suspected anti-Coalition insurgents and seized two weapons caches in Baqubah May 16. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment detained three suspects following a mortar attack on a Coalition base near here around 12:54 p.m. A combat patrol followed a white pick-up truck to a house where the suspects were among a group unloading a cache of weapons.

The cache included two machine guns, approximately 2,600 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, 13 shotgun shells, one shotgun, and three AK-47 magazines. Soldiers from the 105th Engineer Battalion discovered a cache of weapons near the city around 9 a.m. The cache included 55, 90mm mortar rounds; 40, 82mm mortar rounds; 45, 120mm mortar rounds; 20, 107mm rockets and one rocket-propelled grenade. The cache was destroyed at the site.

The suspects were transported to a Coalition detention facility for questioning.

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