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| 10th Mountain Captures Two Murders, Baghdad Weapons Cache |
| 2006-03-07 |
| Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, captured two terrorists in Abu Ghraib Feb. 26. Soldiers from the battalionÂ’s Company B were conducting a routine inspection of vehicles in western Abu Ghraib. Prompted by his previous experiences in Iraq, 1st Lt. Scott Treadwell, Co. B, ordered his Soldiers to search a suspicious vehicle. TreadwellÂ’s men discovered two known murderers of Iraqi civilians. The two men were carrying rifles and contracts for the murder of other Iraqis. A day prior, Soldiers from the battalionÂ’s Co. C found a large weapon cache after days of diligent searching. No longer willing to tolerate terrorists in their neighborhoods, Iraqis provided the Soldiers with the cacheÂ’s location. The Soldiers quickly verified the location and discovered weapons buried in an empty field a few miles west of BaghdadÂ’s heart. The Soldiers unearthed a significant cache. Along with bomb-making equipment, the cache held five rocket propelled grenade launchers, 19 rocket-propelled grenades, 20 mortars, eight rockets, 21 grenades and some explosives. To ensure public safety and deny these weapons to the terrorists, the Soldiers called for explosives experts to destroy the cache. Soldiers from Special Troops Battalion, 1st BCT, 10th Mtn. Div., responded and destroyed the weapons in a controlled explosion. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 The important thing is that they were called "murderers", clearly civilian business. As you move from military hostilities to peace, more and more the terminology changes with the tactics. At first it grates on the soldiers--it takes a while for it to sink in that peace is good, that it's not cheating them in some way. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-03-07 19:55 |
| #1 They were carrying contracts? Lol. Sheesh, guys, that's only a figure of speech over here - are you twits that anal over there? LOL. Dumb question. Sorry. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-03-07 19:28 |