Military: Iranian weapons cache found, destroyed in Mahmudiyah
Above: Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division have been conducting joint searches with Iraqi security forces hunting for insurgents and weapons in Mahmudiyah for months, as in this March 4 mission
MAHMUDIYAH, Iraq — Coalition forces discovered a weapons cache during a combat operation south of Baghdad.
Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) discovered four improvised explosive devices, components for 25 additional IEDs, seven 107mm Iranian rockets and an 81mm Iranian mortar in the Mahmudiyah area.
The contents of the cache were destroyed during a controlled detonation conducted by an explosive ordnance team.
From MNF
Related Link:
Military: Raid seizes 'nearly new' Iranian-marked rockets, mortars
Related Link:
GAO: Most IEDs built from looted Iraqi ammo
Related Link:
Petraeus: Iran's Qods Force behind network of Iraq terror cells; Captured documents detail plan for Karbala ambush which killed 5 soldiers
Related Link:
Pace: U.S. intercepted Iranian weapons headed to Taliban in Afghanistan
Related Link:
Iran Giving Arms To Iraq's Sunnis, U.S. Military Says
Related Link:
General Barbero: Iran supporting Sunni insurgents
Related Link:
Basra police chief says roadside bomb that killed 4 British soldiers was Iranian
Related Link:
State Department Official: Evidence of Iran support for insurgents 'growing, frightening'
Related Link:
U.S.: Use Of Deadly Roadside Bomb Plunges
Related Link:
Exile says Tehran training Iraqi militants in Iran, names senior Iraqi officials as complicit
Related Link:
Petraeus: Iran training, arming insurgents; Suicide bombers streaming from Syria
Related Link:
GAO: Unguarded munitions supplying insurgency
Related Link:
Perspective: Sunni insurgents remain biggest threat to U.S. troops in Iraq
Related Link:
Brigadier General Anderson: Most IEDs are from Saddam’s regime
Related Link:
'Intelligence Officials': Iran runs own network of insurgents in attacks against U.S. troops
Related Link:
Iraqi National Security Adviser: Iranians have stopped training and providing weapons to insurgents
Related Link:
Inelligence Chief McConnell: Iran training Iraqi insurgents in I.E.D. use at sites in Lebanon, Iran
Related Link:
U.S. Says Raid in Iraq Supports Claim on Iran
Related Link:
Intelligence Sources: Officials in Iran weapons briefing overstated evidence
Related Link:
Perspective: Doubts raised on linking of Iran to US deaths in Iraq
Related Link:
Military: 'Rogue elements' of Shi'ite militias behind use of Iranian EFPs
Related Link:
Bush: Iran supplying roadside bombs
Related Link:
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Pace: No proof of Iranian government involvement in supplying weapons to insurgents
Related Link:
Sources: 'Highest levels' of Iran government funneling sophisticated explosives to extremist groups
MAHMUDIYAH, Iraq — Coalition forces discovered a weapons cache during a combat operation south of Baghdad.
Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) discovered four improvised explosive devices, components for 25 additional IEDs, seven 107mm Iranian rockets and an 81mm Iranian mortar in the Mahmudiyah area.
The contents of the cache were destroyed during a controlled detonation conducted by an explosive ordnance team.
From MNF
Related Link:
Military: Raid seizes 'nearly new' Iranian-marked rockets, mortars
Related Link:
GAO: Most IEDs built from looted Iraqi ammo
Related Link:
Petraeus: Iran's Qods Force behind network of Iraq terror cells; Captured documents detail plan for Karbala ambush which killed 5 soldiers
Related Link:
Pace: U.S. intercepted Iranian weapons headed to Taliban in Afghanistan
Related Link:
Iran Giving Arms To Iraq's Sunnis, U.S. Military Says
Related Link:
General Barbero: Iran supporting Sunni insurgents
Related Link:
Basra police chief says roadside bomb that killed 4 British soldiers was Iranian
Related Link:
State Department Official: Evidence of Iran support for insurgents 'growing, frightening'
Related Link:
U.S.: Use Of Deadly Roadside Bomb Plunges
Related Link:
Exile says Tehran training Iraqi militants in Iran, names senior Iraqi officials as complicit
Related Link:
Petraeus: Iran training, arming insurgents; Suicide bombers streaming from Syria
Related Link:
GAO: Unguarded munitions supplying insurgency
Related Link:
Perspective: Sunni insurgents remain biggest threat to U.S. troops in Iraq
Related Link:
Brigadier General Anderson: Most IEDs are from Saddam’s regime
Related Link:
'Intelligence Officials': Iran runs own network of insurgents in attacks against U.S. troops
Related Link:
Iraqi National Security Adviser: Iranians have stopped training and providing weapons to insurgents
Related Link:
Inelligence Chief McConnell: Iran training Iraqi insurgents in I.E.D. use at sites in Lebanon, Iran
Related Link:
U.S. Says Raid in Iraq Supports Claim on Iran
Related Link:
Intelligence Sources: Officials in Iran weapons briefing overstated evidence
Related Link:
Perspective: Doubts raised on linking of Iran to US deaths in Iraq
Related Link:
Military: 'Rogue elements' of Shi'ite militias behind use of Iranian EFPs
Related Link:
Bush: Iran supplying roadside bombs
Related Link:
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Pace: No proof of Iranian government involvement in supplying weapons to insurgents
Related Link:
Sources: 'Highest levels' of Iran government funneling sophisticated explosives to extremist groups
<< Home