Soldiers Catch Terrorist Planting Bomb In Baghdad
Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - U.S. soldiers caught a would-be bomber as he was planting an improvised explosive device (IED) in Baghdad. Soldiers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, say the man tried to place a bomb in the southwestern part of the city, a little after noon. He was apprehended without incident, and the bomb was taken into custody. Elsewhere in Iraq, a suicide bomber struck a police station. U.S. soldiers fired on "white two-door sedan and its occupants as the vehicle barreled through the front gates of the police station. At the same time, terrorists attacked several guard towers adjacent to the police station. The vehicle continued toward the station and blew up when it struck the building's northwest corner." According to the Pentagon, the blast killed two Iraqi police officers and wounded four. Eight U.S. soldiers on guard duty at the time were wounded. Also in the capital, U.S. soldiers uncovered a pair of weapons caches. The Armed Forces Press Service says the first cache contained seven 125 mm artillery rounds, 45 122 mm mortar rounds, 15 120 mm anti-personnel mines, 11 60 mm mortars, 46 120 mm fuses, 103 rocket-propelled grenades, 100 RPG boosters, six RPG fuses, 15,000 RPK machine gun rounds, and 10 cases of 7.62 mm rounds. The second cache yielded 21 RPG rounds, two 122 mm mortar rounds, a bag of homemade explosives and various bomb-mak |
