Nov 10, 2008

The military police of MP detachment, Combat Logistics Company 19, 1st Marine Logistics Group discovered a small weapons cache in an abandoned town just one kilometer west of Camp Sinjar Nov. 11. The cache consisted of an AK-47, a flare gun, ammunition for the AK and ammunition for a Dragonov sniper rifle. There was no Draganov sniper rifle onsite. The Marines also found numerous papers with Arabic writing, a bag full of syringes, and vials containing an unknown liquid. Marines suspect that the papers may be possible intelligence on the enemy and that the liquid could be some kind of amphetamine, but investigators have yet to make any conclusions. Marines in MP detachment make up one part of the first Marine Air Ground Task Force outside Anbar in Iraq since 2004. They traveled to the Nineweh province to kick off Operation Defeat Al Qaeda in the North II, an operation aimed at stamping out the insurgency just west of the restive city of Mosul.

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