Arms & ammo seized in Falluja

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: Security forces seized a weapons cache in an abandoned house in Falluja on Friday, the city’s police chief said. “A joint force from the 6th Emergency Contingent and the Falluja Police Department seized on Friday (Jan. 30) arms and munitions inside an uninhabited house in the area of Amiriyat al-Falluja based on intelligence tip-offs,” Col. Mahmoud al-Issawi told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The cache contained 11 mortar shells, 13 improvised explosive devices with detonation wires, 24 RPG-7 shells, target-setting field maps, BKC bandoliers and four Kalashnikov assault rifles,” Issawi said. Falluja, the largest city of the predominantly-Sunni province of al-Anbar, lies 45 km west of Baghdad. Anbar’s capital city, Ramadi, is 110 west of the Iraqi capital. AmR (P) 1