Boy Leads Army To IED Cache
MNF:
BAGHDAD — A Multi-National Division-Baghdad unit discovered a cache of explosives and improvised explosive device-making materials in a western neighborhood of the Iraqi capital following a tip from a local boy Sept. 15.
A platoon from Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment (Task Force Patriot), was conducting a census operation in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Yarmouk when an 11-year-old Iraqi boy pointed out an abandoned house and suggested that insurgents had used it as a base of operations in previous months.
The Soldiers discovered two cache sites within the house after a detailed search. The contents of the two caches included four RPG-7 rockets, nine 57mm rockets, two 82mm mortars, one 130mm artillery round, one 122mm artillery round, one block of TNT, a foot of detonation cord, 52 AK-47 magazines and an assortment of IED-detonating devices.
An explosive ordnance disposal team responded to the scene and removed the explosives for detonation later in a controlled environment.
“We’re encouraged by the fact that a tip from an Iraqi child led us to this cache,” said Capt. Jayson Morgan, commander of Battery B and a Munday, Texas native. “It’s just another sign that our efforts in this community are paying dividends.”
Morgan said he will return to the neighborhood later this week to pay the family of the young boy a reward for providing such valuable information.
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Good idea Morgan to offer a reward, but, I’m sure you’ll be discrete about it. Don’t want to read tomorrow that they found his head on the front steps of his house the next day.
September 17th, 2007 at 6:46 amSmart kid. I’d keep his ID under wraps.
September 17th, 2007 at 7:15 amDid they even think about staking the place out for a couple of days/weeks to catch the bad guys coming back to retrieve or use those weapons? Seems silly to me to report this without having done what I suggested. But, hey, I’m just a dumbassed conservative. What could I possibly know?
September 17th, 2007 at 8:29 amDetonation Chord? I guess that’s pretty common at the corner street markets. Right next to the vegetables.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:10 amThe sad thing is the boys ID will be leaked by the MSM or another member of the Dem leadership party, and then they will decry his death as proof the US military isn’t doing his job, the ID being leaked will be supported by the LMSM as the publics right to know…
September 17th, 2007 at 11:58 am