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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: TideGlider who wrote (517722)12/31/2003 9:14:01 AM
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Cache of weapons, al Qaeda tapes found

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. forces operating in Iraq's Sunni Triangle found a large weapons cache that included al Qaeda literature and videotapes, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

CNN reported troops discovered the material Monday morning at a site in Samarra, about 65 miles northwest of Baghdad. Some of the items were found hidden in a false wall, the military said.

In addition to the al Qaeda literature and videos, the troops found nearly 8,000 rounds of ammunition; 160 mortar rounds and six mortar tubes; 43 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and 79 rocket-propelled grenades; and 19 AK-47 assault rifles, as well as dozens of other weapons and a significant amount of C4 and TNT explosives material.

The find was just one of several large weapons caches uncovered in Iraq in the last two days.

The military did not say how it found out about the weapons, but a member of the Iraq Governing Council said recently that Saddam has begun giving interrogators information about weapons arsenals used by insurgents to attack coalition forces

washtimes.com
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