14 Detained at cache site

14 Detained at cache site
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
1st Lt. Charles Bloomfield
2nd Bn, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment
April 7, 2007

BAGHDAD — A large weapons cache was found in the Yarmouok neighborhood on Apr. 3, as security operations continue in western Baghdad.

Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 5th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army, and Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, conducted a joint operations raid that discovered a stockpile of weapons in the nation’s capital.

Among the items confiscated were, explosives, IED making materials, 9mm handguns, 60mm mortars, 82mm mortars, and 57mm projectiles as well as numerous AK-47s and other contraband.

Fourteen men were detained during the operation and are being held for further questioning.