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By Jamey Keaton IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS KHOWRI KHORAH, Afghanistan — After a grueling lb over craggy terrain, Sgt. 1st Craig Ogden crawled i a 3-foot-high opening to pen tucked into a cliff, searching for a massive neapons cache. Behind a stack of stones at le rear of the pen, the company soldiers finds hundreds of jrtar and recoil less rifle ends, rockets and more than (I cases of ammunition — my labeled in Chinese. The discovery is the 60-man mpany’s prize for months of intelligence work. It also is the Srstbig success for Operation Desert Lion, an intensified hunt weapons stashed by rem- natits of al-Qaida or the ousted regime for use against a I'S.-led coalition battling morists in Afghanistan. “Whoever put this here clev- dy disguised this cave as an jiimai pen,” said Ogden, of San Antonio, with not a bead of sweat on his head despite the inluous climb. ’s good to get this stuff off ilemarket. This is what they’ve ken firing at us.” The cache was one of the gest found in Afghanistan, jden said Thursday. The operation in the Kobe li mountains east of Kabul a one of the first to combine lelligence collected by the International Security Assistance rce, which maintains security the capital of Kabul, and the li.S.-led multinational li-terror coalition. The location of the cache »as strategic. The village of Khorah is only 12 east of Kabul and sits on Ambush by suspected Taliban rebels n Geresk- Kandahar* AFGHANISTAN H*?' 0 50 mi Helmand ; o 50 km PAKISTAN 0 150 mi UZB TAJIKISTAN 0 150 km _ TURK, f | AFGHANISTAN Kabul© PAKISTAN SOURCES: Associated Press; ESRI AP high ground overlooking the capital. Mujahedeen fighters staged raids on Soviet positions from here in a decade-long war in the 1980s. After more than two decades of conflict, weapons are as com mon as wrenching poverty in these Afghan mountains. Army officials are not sure who stuffed the weaponry — some of it old. some new — into the cliff at least a year ago. But a local source, said to be a former Taliban member, guid ed the troops. He was not allowed to speak with an Associated Press reporter accompanying the soldiers and wore a baseball cap, sunglasses, scarf and hood tightly wound around his head to protect his identity. As the operation started Thursday morning. Chinook helicopters disgorged soldiers onto a mountain next to the vil lage. Soldiers quickly set up a security zone, their M-16s ready in case rebel fighters were in the area. Wells for fresh water, roads to nearby towns and a medical clinic, they said. The arrival of the helicopters reminded residents of the Soviet war and initially sparked fear in the village, a network of muddy alleys, about 100 houses and small, terraced wheat field plots. Many of the men recalled fight ing with the mujahedeen against the Soviets. The cache was several miles from the village. The weapons — containing about 10,000 pounds of explosives altogether — probably were carried in by donkey, Ogden said. It would be too difficult to salvage them, he determined, so he radioed soldiers to bring him C-4 explosives to blow them up. Caldwell and a translator explained to a family that their home, located across a parched riverbed from the cache, proba bly would be damaged by the explosion. U.S. forces said they would compensate the family for their loss but, from a distance, the wife seemed angry — yelling and stomping around — about being told to leave the area. The family returned to anoth er home they had in the area, military officials said. After rigging up the explo sives and climbing behind a nearby ridge line, Ogden yelled, “Fire in the hole!,” three times. Then a pause, a flash and a boom. The earth shook and sparks flew over the ridge, visi ble for miles away. “It was like the Fourth of July,” Staff Sgt. 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