Iraqi Soldiers Seize Weapons, Explosives
American Forces Press Service
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 14, 2004 -- The Iraqi Intervention Force's 1st Battalion
arrested six people and seized two vehicles loaded with weapons and explosives
Oct. 13 at a traffic control point here.
The vehicles were stopped during routine searches at the impromptu checkpoint
in the city.
Included in the seizure was a bus loaded with 17 107 mm artillery shells, 78
mortars, and 108 anti-tank mines. Three people in the vehicle were arrested.
The driver had originally tried to bribe the soldiers not to search the bus,
officials said.
While the soldiers waited for a Multinational Force explosive-ordnance
detachment to handle the seized munitions, a second vehicle was stopped and
searched, and the three people in the vehicle were detained for possessing
illegal weapons. Included in the second seizure were an AK-47 assault rifle, a
pistol, and a magazine vest full of loaded magazines. The suspects were handed
over to multinational forces and processed into a detention facility.
The Iraqi Intervention Force is the Iraqi army's counterinsurgency group.
(Courtesy of Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq.)
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