Weapons cache seized in US raid on Baghdad mosque

BAGHDAD (AFP) Jan 02, 2004
US soldiers seized a large cache of weapons when they raided a mosque in southwestern Baghdad on Thursday and arrested a number of people, the coalition's deputy director of operations, Brigadier General Mark Kimmit, said on Friday.

Three packages of TNT explosives, a 60 mm mortar tube, eight improvised grenades, bomb-making equipment and two bags of gunpowder were recovered in the raid, he told reporters.

Kimmit said 32 people were arrested in the raid on the mosque, which he said was believed to have been used for "terror activities".

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