Air strike destroys safe house, reveals large cache

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFPN) --  Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots dropped two 500-pound bombs Jan. 6, destroying an al-Qaida safe house near Busayefi, Iraq, where improvised explosive devices were made and stored. 

After the structure was destroyed, a site survey was conducted by Multinational Division Center Soldiers. 

The remnants of the IED-making materials found in the rubble included one 122 mm projectile, one 120 mm mortar round, three 57 mm projectile rounds primed with detonation cord, 50 DSHKA large-caliber machine gun rounds, three spools of copper wire, two crush wire strips, 30 meters of command wire, three bundles of detonation cord and a video camera. 

(Courtesy of the MultiNational Division Center Public Affairs Office)

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