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Arms depot found in Falluja

February 15, 2009 - 06:16:05

ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: Police personnel on Sunday found a cache containing weapons and explosives in a deserted area in eastern Falluja city, according to a police chief.

“An underground weapons cache was found in a deserted agricultural site in al-Laheeb area, eastern Falluja,” the head of Fursan al-Karma Center, Col. Saad Abbas, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“The cache contained six rockets, two Grad rockets, nine hand grenades, etc,” he added.

Falluja was a scene of armed conflict between U.S. and Iraqi forces on the one hand and al-Qaeda gunmen on the other.

Falluja, the largest city in Anbar, lies 45 km west of Baghdad; while Ramadi, the capital of the province, lies 110 km west of Baghdad.

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