Way to go NEW Iraqi Army!!

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 18, 2004 -- The Iraqi Intervention
Force's 1st Battalion
arrested six people and seized two vehicles loaded with
weapons and explosives
Oct. 16 at a traffic control point here.

The vehicles were stopped during routine searches at the
impromptu checkpoint
in the city.

Included in the seizure was a bus loaded with 17 107 mm
artillery shells, 78
mortars, and 108 anti-tank mines. Three people in the
vehicle were arrested.
The driver had originally tried to bribe the soldiers not
to search the bus,
officials said.

While the soldiers waited for a Multinational Force
explosive-ordnance
detachment to handle the seized munitions, a second vehicle
was stopped and
searched, and the three people in the vehicle were detained
for possessing
illegal weapons. Included in the second seizure were an
AK-47 assault rifle, a
pistol, and a magazine vest full of loaded magazines. The
suspects were handed
over to multinational forces and processed into a detention
facility.

The Iraqi Intervention Force is the Iraqi army's
counterinsurgency group.

(Courtesy of Multinational Security Transition Command
Iraq.)