Iraqi Villages Help Troops, Lead Them to Weapons Cache

It seems that the everyday villagers of Iraq are getting sick and tired of having their villages turned into battlegrounds and are helping the US troops by leading them to weapons caches.

According to Operation Iraqi Freedom, villagers in the small village of Qarghuli, not far from Baghdad, lead the US forces to the caches of weapons on July 6. These are ordinary, everyday people who just want to get their lives back to where they do not have to fear attacks from al Qaeda affiliated terrorists and have turned them over to patrolling Soldiers in the past.

These Iraqi villagers are literally putting their lives on the line to try and help the US Troops put and end to the al Qaeda activity in Iraq and restore their country to some semblance of normalcy.

From the size of the caches found and confiscated by US Troops, something big was being planned. The site is not far from where three US Soldiers disappeared in May.

The troops confiscated and later blew up, a rocket-propelled grenade launching kit - still in the box; six fuses for 82mm mortars, an 82mm round prepared as an improvised explosive device, possibly for a suicide bomber, two re-sealable plastic bags containing maps, books and a guard roster, a set of ballistic eyeglasses, two bags of homemade explosive, a rocket launcher with two tubes, a rocket engine, a videotape, and photos, nine 60mm mortar rounds with 11 fuses, about 55 blasting caps, a block of HME, seven empty 60mm mortar shells, an RPG fuse, 18 feet of detonation cord, a ten-pound bag of black powder, and 28 rocket tips, nine 120mm mortar rounds, two AK-47 rifles, two 105mm rounds, 20 pounds of HME, 20 AK-47 magazines, and several mortar fuses.