I was originally looking for some of the good stories from Iraq at DefenseLink, which rarely make it into the MSM, and ran across this story:
With only a crescent moon, the stars and night-vision goggles to light the path, Iraqi Security Forces and elements of 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division moved on several objectives during the early morning hours.
The stakes in this operation were high because the mission was to search a mosque and its surrounding muhalla in Doura neighborhood’s southern region of Abu T’schir in the Rasheed district.
Iraqi Special Operations Forces had been given the mission to move on the first objective, the Kathamayan Mosque, while elements of 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment secured the outer cordon and provided several roof-top observation teams for the mission.
A decision had been made to search the mosque and surrounding area, due to tips that terrorists had been using it as a base. And what happened?
As the search was winding down, a local citizen stepped forward with information about a weapons cache belonging to the mosque, said Rutigliano. The cache was in a red shipping container positioned next to the Kathamayan Mosque.
Although further investigation of the cache would have to wait until an explosive ordnance disposal team could determine the container was not booby trapped, it was later discovered that 15 120mm artillery rounds, 15 81mm artillery rounds, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, four RPG rounds,12 RPG boosters, nine 60mm artillery rounds, five Iraqi uniforms, an 81mm artillery tube, 1,900 7.62mm rounds, a mortar tripod, an automatic machine gun, three 81mm rounds, four AK-47 magazines, two fuses, and two hand grenades were inside the shipping container.
So much for mosques being sacred to some Muslims.
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