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Article: IRAQI POLICE UNEARTH WEAPONS CACHES; CONDUCT 'SOLO' OPERATIONS IN IRAQ
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 7, 2006
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The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story:
Coalition Forces are not the only ones taking bomb-making material and other weapons out of insurgents' hands - Iraqi police in this city bordering Syria recently found two hidden stashes of munitions and weapons.
The police discovered the two caches, which consisted of multiple rockets, mortars, and hundreds of machine gun rounds, while on a security foot patrol through their city.
Thanks to months of training and mentoring by U.S. Marines and soldiers, Iraqi police in this portion of Iraq's western Al Anbar Province, are now operating independently out of their own police station.
"The Iraqi police are beginning to provide ...