Monday, February 06, 2006

Troops Find Huge Arms Stockpile In Iraq

The U.S. military in Iraq said Saturday that U.S. soldiers and Marines found a large weapons cache west of Fallujah, the 11th such discovery by the same troops in 13 days.
The latest cache consisted of more than 800 mortar rounds, 43 57-mm rockets, 75 tubes of C3 explosives, 125 hand grenades, seven 50-kilogram bags of TNT along and eight land mines, along with an assortment of ammunition for weapons from anti-aircraft systems to machine guns, the military said.