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| Iraq |
| 4th Infantry Division Continues Operations |
| 2004-01-29 |
| TIKRIT, Iraq - Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade’s 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment and Iraqi Police raided a location in Kirkuk in an attempt to capture non-compliant forces. The soldiers and police captured 19 individuals suspected of anti-Coalition activities, including a person on the brigade’s "Blacklist." Two additional people were captured during the raid. One AK-47 assault rifle and one pistol were confiscated. -- A 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment patrol raided a location southeast of Al Wajhiyah during the late evening of Jan. 27 searching for a suspected weapons dealer. The soldiers captured one individual and confiscated four AK-47 assault rifles, one SKS automatic weapon, five rocket-propelled grenade launchers, one RPG round, one mortar site, ten grenades, six blocks of C-4 plastic explosives, detonation cord, two SKS magazines and 900,000 Iraqi dinar. -- Soldiers from B Company, 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment discovered a weapons cache north of Bayji during the morning of Jan. 27. The cache consisted of 100 135 mm artillery rounds and hundreds of .50 caliber rounds. Soldiers from the same unit found another cache in a house north of Bayji later the same day. The cache consisted of three AK-47 assault rifles with magazines, one box of pistol flares, 500 loose rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition and 30 9 mm rounds. The soldiers continued their search and found nine RPGs, two AK-47 assault rifle drums with ammunition and more than $2 million Iraqi dinar. --An Iraqi was captured in Bayji during the morning of Jan. 27 after he was seen leaving an area where soldiers from the 555th Engineer Battalion found a newly emplaced improvised explosive device (IED). The man was also carrying $1,000 in U.S. currency. The individual admitted that he had just been paid to plant the device. The homemade bomb was destroyed at the scene. --Soldiers from A Troop, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment found a cache of two 200 pound and 15 155 mm artillery shells with attached wire in the village of Muhyi during the afternoon of Jan. 27. An explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) team came to the conclusion that the munitions were stored at the location for future use and were not wired to explode. EOD destroyed the items in place. --In Samarra, soldiers from B Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment located and confiscated an ammunition cache consisting of 37 82 mm mortar rounds partially buried in a field during the afternoon of Jan. 27. The mortars were still in their plastic shipping containers. -- Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade raided a building in Kirkuk at approximately 1:15 a.m. Jan. 28 in pursuit of an individual suspected of storing mortar tubes, mortar systems and RPGs for anti-Coalition forces. The soldiers captured nine individuals and confiscated four AK-47 assault rifles. -- Three criminals fired at an Iraqi Civil Defense Corps patrol with automatic weapons during the evening of Jan. 27 near the town of Habis. The ICDC soldiers were investigating a disturbance when they were attacked. The ICDC patrol returned fire killing one of the attackers and wounding another. The third criminal fled the scene. No ICDC soldiers were injured in the incident. -- Attack helicopters from the 1st Brigade Combat Team discovered seven, apparently operational, ZPU 57-2 anti-aircraft artillery weapons south of Ash Sharqat during the morning of Jan. 27. An AH-64 "Apache" pilot fired on the weapons destroying all of them. |
| Posted by:Chuck Simmins |
| #2 good roundup guys! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-1-29 9:54:34 PM |
| #1 Those 57mm AA guns are not small. It took 8 months to come across these things. What else is there lying around in the open ? |
| Posted by: buwaya 2004-1-29 7:35:23 PM |