Multi-National Division ? Baghdad Soldiers uncovered two weapon caches in the western Baghdad neighborhoods of Adl and Khadra Aug. 10. Acting on tips, Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment "Desert Rogues," attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, raided a home in the Adl neighborhood and discovered the first of two cache sites. The abandoned home contained 51 artillery rounds and 30 pounds of homemade explosive material.
The second cache site, located in Khadra, consisted of 27 pounds of homemade explosive material and a pre-fabricated improvised explosive device. An assortment of other bomb-making materials was also found at the second abandoned home.
An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the caches with controlled detonations. Fifty-one artillery rounds are lined up for inventory and destruction in a controlled detonation by an explosive ordnance disposal team Aug. 10. The artillery rounds were found in an abandoned house in the western Baghdad Adl neighborhood following a targeted raid by Coalition troops. This munitions cache discovery was the first of two caches uncovered by the "Desert Rogues" from the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment. |