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| Iraq |
| Ahhhhhhhhh.... nothing like good intelligence |
| 2003-11-05 |
| US forces said Wednesday they have discovered an important arms cache during a raid on hideouts suspected of serving as a base to attack coalition forces north of Baghdad. "Task Force Ironhorse soldiers conducted a raid at a location near al-Hadid, believed to be a safe house for people suspected of involvement in mortar attacks against forward operating base Warhorse," said a coalition statement. "The residence was searched and an important weapons cache was located and confiscated." The statement said "the cache included: 33 blocks of dangerous explosives, 98 feet of detonation cord, 20 blasting caps, and abundant volatile munitions used in improvised explosive devices." "The soldiers also discovered "two rifles, eight fragmentation grenades, a machinegun, one rocket-propelled grenade launcher, 300 rounds of 7.62 millimeter ammunition, three rounds of 14.5 millimeter anti-aircraft ammunition, five AK-47 ammunition magazines, and one ammunition drum for a machinegun." |
| Posted by:rawsnacks |
| #13 Jarhead - You freaking win. |
| Posted by: Rawsnacks 2003-11-5 10:31:14 PM |
| #12 Raw, check this out...... On the fifth day of Ramadan my Mullah gave to meeee... five abundant volatile munitions, four crates of demolitions, three cassettes of sermons, an AK-47, and a 'sploding belt for a jihad-ee... |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-11-5 10:08:21 PM |
| #11 Points to anyone that can put abundant volatile munitions in verse... |
| Posted by: Rawsnacks 2003-11-5 9:49:04 PM |
#10 "...get your parodies ready."OK, guys, more verses? And remember, Ramadan lasts a WHOLE MONTH! ;-> |
| Posted by: Old Grouch 2003-11-5 9:05:49 PM |
| #9 Are scunions like Funions? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-5 8:43:15 PM |
| #8 "two rifles, eight fragmentation grenades, a machinegun, one rocket-propelled grenade launcher, 300 rounds of 7.62 millimeter ammunition, three rounds of 14.5 millimeter anti-aircraft ammunition, five AK-47 ammunition magazines, and one ammunition drum for a machinegun." Tis the season... get your parodies ready. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-5 8:30:36 PM |
| #7 Can you imagine soldiers' reactions on getting their deployment orders to the named forward operating bases ? "Awright, lissen up, you guys over there are assigned to Warhorse!" Troops: HOO-RAH ! "...and youse guys over there are assigned to Scunion !" Troops: Aw, crap. |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2003-11-5 5:50:03 PM |
| #6 They should have set up a trap, and rigged the thing to blow sky-high when the owners returned to get their stuff. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-5 5:25:12 PM |
| #5 "And the lucky winner of an all-expenses-paid trip to Gitmo is..." [insert drum-roll and name of homeowner / resident here]... Replacing a stash like this won't be easy. Hat-tip to the informant. Cool. Slowly, but surely. Those be some mighty big elk, Raj! |
| Posted by: .com 2003-11-5 4:29:07 PM |
| #4 jeesh...russ, did you miss the rest of the stuff listed? I say good work to those who found it! |
| Posted by: B 2003-11-5 4:25:00 PM |
| #3 Because it's Elk Season in Iraq! |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-11-5 4:18:57 PM |
| #2 Kinda a lousy weapons cache: two rifles and 8 grenades. Sure, its good to get them off the street and out of the hands of evil-doers, but I'm not exactly sure why this little amount is news. |
| Posted by: RussSchultz 2003-11-5 4:17:23 PM |
| #1 "No one was detained as a result of the raid but a terrain model of both forward operating base Warhorse and Scunion, found in the building, indicated that the raided location had been for planning attacks against coalition forces," it said. If they're building terrain models, that suggests a higher level of military training, most likely ex-Iraqi army officer. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-11-5 3:49:47 PM |