BAGHDAD – Iraqi Army Soldiers and Iraqi National Policemen, conducting operations in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, discovered weapons caches May 31. National Policemen from 34th Brigade, 1st National Police Division, discovered an explosively formed projectile at approximately 8 a.m. No evidence of concrete Iranian weapons.
At approximately 9 a.m., Iraqi Army Soldiers with the 3rd Brigade, 1st IA Division, seized one EFP, two PKC light machine guns and one rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
In separate events, at approximately 9 a.m., Soldiers with the 34th Brigade, 9th IA Division, seized a number EFPs, RPGs and rifles. Iraqi Soldiers also with the 34th BDE, 9th IA Div., discovered a weapons cache at approximately 10 a.m. The cache consisted of 17 AK-47 assault rifles, one RPK machine gun, three rifles, one anti-tank mine, two 155 mm rounds and two small machine guns.
At approximately 11 a.m., Iraqi Soldiers from 34th BDE, 9th IA Div., seized another weapons cache consisting of six 81 mm and 82 mm mortar tubes, and more than 100 81 mm and 82 mm mortar rounds.
We have no heavy weapons, nope, never have had any. We use those to celebrate weddings.
“The Iraqi Security Forces remain diligent in tracking down illegal weapons and removing them from the hands of those who would harm the Iraq people,” said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff, Multi-National Division – Baghdad and the 4th Infantry Division.