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Iraq
Deja Vu 'Search Nets Large Weapons Cache'
2006-05-14
This release was so similar to one from two days ago I had to read them side-by-side to make sure it was actually another event. I can't tell whose cache(s) they found. I also wonder if both raids were part of a roll-back of a significant intelligence capture recently (there were several.)
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division and Multi-National Division – Baghdad’s 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, located a large weapons cache and detained five suspected terrorists May 12 in northwest Baghdad.

The cache included 155 12 mm mortar rounds, 97 60 mm mortar rounds, 96 sticks of PE-4 explosives, 40 blasting caps, 20 rocket-propelled grenades, seven RPG launchers, two 120 mm mortar systems, two 82 mm mortar systems, two 60 mm mortar systems, nine cell phones, three long-range control transmitters and a charging base for the transmitters. An Explosive Ordnance Disposal team destroyed the munitions.
Posted by:Glenmore

#5  No mention of land mines, unlike the previous cache.
Posted by: Grunter   2006-05-14 12:34  

#4  i believe it's the same cache as from a couple days ago.
Posted by: Greamp Elmavinter1163   2006-05-14 09:15  

#3  Strictly a typo - this was not from 'journalists', but a CentCom press release.
Posted by: Glenmore   2006-05-14 07:31  

#2  Aye, they be wee ones, ZF. I would guess that they meant 120 mm, but journalists do not have a feel for anything real.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2006-05-14 03:06  

#1  Article: The cache included 155 12 mm mortar rounds

Pretty small mortar rounds, these.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2006-05-14 00:30  

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