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Weapons depot found in Makhmour

September 23, 2008 - 06:24:45

ARBIL / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army forces on Tuesday found a stockpile of weapons and explosives in Makhmour district, a military media source said.
“A force from the 7th brigade of the Iraqi army found a weapons cache on the public road between Makhmour and Kayara, which contains 45 bombs and 30 kg of TNT,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
“The operation was based on intelligence information,” he added.
Meanwhile the media official of the 5th brigade of the Iraqi army said that his forces found a bomb near dokardakan village, west of Makhmour, noting that the bomb was detonated without causing any damage.
Makhmour, 68 km southwest of Arbil, is one of the districts administratively disputed by Arbil, 349 km northeast of Baghdad, and Ninewa, 405 km northeast of the Iraqi capital.
Arbil, also written Erbil or Irbil, is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited in the world and is one of the largest cities in Iraq. The city lies eighty kilometers (fifty miles) east of Mosul.
In 2005, its estimated population was 990,000 inhabitants. The city is the capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, only isolated, sporadic violence has hit Arbil, unlike many other areas of Iraq.

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