Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Marines, soldiers unearth huge weapons cache
I get these updates all the time, but the number of weapons in this instance was worth posting
Anyway, I just got word from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit in Iraq, that Marines, attached U.S. soldiers, and Iraqi soldiers have uncovered a huge weapons cache near Hit (in the Al Anbar Province). Many of the weapons - including some 500 rockets, artillery, and mortar rounds, as well as 100 tank rounds and lots of of rocket propellant, fuses, and blasting caps (all of which may be used to construct IEDs) - were found buried in a cemetery (though not all). Assault rifles, ammo and at least two IEDs were also discovered.
"This was our biggest find to date," said 1st Lt. Antonio Agnone, a combat engineer platoon commander. "We’ve uncovered numerous, and significant caches the insurgents have hidden in Hit in places where they thought they would have easy access to them."
Agnone also said that what "amazed" many of his Marines, particularly the new Marines, was the lengths the insurgents would go to hide the weapons and ammo... like in the cemetery.
Anyway, I just got word from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit in Iraq, that Marines, attached U.S. soldiers, and Iraqi soldiers have uncovered a huge weapons cache near Hit (in the Al Anbar Province). Many of the weapons - including some 500 rockets, artillery, and mortar rounds, as well as 100 tank rounds and lots of of rocket propellant, fuses, and blasting caps (all of which may be used to construct IEDs) - were found buried in a cemetery (though not all). Assault rifles, ammo and at least two IEDs were also discovered.
"This was our biggest find to date," said 1st Lt. Antonio Agnone, a combat engineer platoon commander. "We’ve uncovered numerous, and significant caches the insurgents have hidden in Hit in places where they thought they would have easy access to them."
Agnone also said that what "amazed" many of his Marines, particularly the new Marines, was the lengths the insurgents would go to hide the weapons and ammo... like in the cemetery.
# posted by W. Thomas Smith, Jr. @ 4:02 PM 
