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Cache seized in Diala
DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: An arms cache was seized southwest of Baaquba city on Saturday, according to the director of Dialas internal affairs and security department.The cache contained a very large amount of mortar shells, anti-personnel and anti-armor rockets, improvised explosive devices, hand-grenades, Katyusha rockets and detonation wires, Col. Ali Khazaal told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. A department force which raided the cache, located in the town of Loqman, Beni Saad district, (17 km) southwest of Baaquba, also seized circulars signed in the name of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) network that contained plans to target sensitive places in Diala during the Eidul-Fitr holiday, he added. Baaquba, the capital city of the restive province of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad. Posted by: Steve White 2010-09-12 |
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