2012-04-S-011

For Immediate Release

KABUL, Afghanistan (Apr. 4) — A Provincial Response Company, supported by coalition forces, planned and led an operation to destroy a cache of improvised explosive device components and other weapons in Tulak district, Ghor province, yesterday.

The cache consisted of 12 small arms weapons, 37 different IED components, 18 ammunition magazines, one mortar sight, six mortar fuses, a quantity of small arms ammunition, two Afghan police uniforms and 4.5 pounds (2 kilograms) of ammonium nitrate.

Several insurgents were detained and all of the cache's components were destroyed at the scene.