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| Iraq |
| Local resident brings large cache to Soldiers |
| 2007-08-07 |
| An Iraqi man came to Patrol Base Inchon, Iraq, Aug. 5 with a truckload of explosives he found in a cache. Soldiers of Company D, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., helped the man unload the cache contents from his pickup truck into an unexploded ordnance pit near the patrol base. The load consisted of two 155mm rounds and one 120mm round, two plastic pipes filled with homemade explosive, plastic gloves, 200 meters of command wire, 150 rounds of 14.5mm ammunition for a heavy machine gun, a 14.5mm machine-gun barrel, and 60 crush bar-type triggers for improvised explosive devices. An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the items. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Besides, it's more fun blowing it up in place. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-08-07 19:42 |
| #7 There are several reasons. Sometimes there are fears that the cache could be boobytrapped. Sometimes the material is very old and has been buried for a long time and not suitable for use in being fired in the conventional sense. They can't really do anything with it other than blow it up anyway and if they can't see the complete cache to rule out boobytraps, they just blow it in place. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-08-07 17:15 |
| #6 Imagine that. For some reason an Iraqi can handle this stuff without it exploding, but if the coalition gets their hands on it they have to blow it up in place because it's too dangerous to even look at. Humor aside, why do I keep seeing in the news that the coaliton blows this stuff up in place instead of carting it off somewhere to be blown up or whatever? Is it because it is in the middle of nowhere and they want to make sure they get any nearby buried stuff? Can't they just disassemble it like the terrorists do? |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-08-07 15:26 |
| #5 EEP! talk about an EOD nightmare! This yutz is prolly been working for the terrs, though. Prolly just wanted to score some reward money. No way this was the whole cache. Ther's more to be found where this truck load came from. I hope they pulled him aside, and squeezed untill he talked. and immediately sent a patrol with an EOD team attached. Then paid the reward in full, plus interest. |
| Posted by: N Guard 2007-08-07 13:22 |
| #4 Iraqis recycling. How quaint. Err, I'll give ya 5 cents a pound for the whole load. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-08-07 11:39 |
| #3 LOL, Crosspatch, so true. Is there a "30 minutes or less or its free" guarantee on deliveries of these sort in Iraq? |
| Posted by: BA 2007-08-07 08:37 |
| #2 I bet there was some excitement for a while. They obviously prefer that you just TELL them about the cache, rather than delivering... |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-08-07 01:56 |
| #1 JEEZ! Someone driving that load toward me might get a surprise! How do you tell the difference between a suicide bomber and a local delivering the contents of a cache? |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-08-07 01:24 |