Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers uncovered a weapons cache and detained one suspected criminal in operations throughout Baghdad May 18.
At approximately 12:10 p.m., Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, were searching a power sub station in West Rashid when they found a weapons cache consisting of two AK-47 assault rifles, three AK-47 magazines, one Dragonov rifle, one PKC rifle, three improvised explosive devices, two initiators, 60 pounds of homemade explosives, other bomb making materials, and one 60 mm mortar with fuse.
At approximately 11:10 a.m., Soldiers with the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, currently attached to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Inf. Div., detained a criminal suspected of emplacing IEDs after Soldiers received a tip from a local citizen in northeastern Baghdad.
