| theking |
04-12-2003 12:05 AM |
Marines Find Cache of Suicide Bomb Vests
"BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. marines have found an enormous cache of suicide bomb vests in a school in central Baghdad. On the floor of the science classroom - with a picture of Saddam Hussein on the green chalk board - there lay nearly 50 black leather vests each packed with C4 explosives and ball bearings.
In the neighborhood school Friday, less than 20 feet from the nearest home, the vests nearly covered the floor, sealed in plastic and still on hangers. Each powerful bomb weighed at least 20 pounds and was lined with long rectangular blocks of C4 explosives and hundreds of ball bearings. Wires ran through them.
In the school's courtyard, Marines found cardboard boxes filled with detonators with two red switches on one side and Velcro on the other. They also found a roll of red detonation chord, three boxes of dynamite, a crate of electrical chords in a box marked explosives, and stacks of empty hangers.
Nearby, they discovered stacks of plastic bags filled with blocks of reddish brown putty that the Marines said could be explosives.
U.S. troops in Iraq have been on high alert against suicide attacks."
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