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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
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Khorah is only 12
east of Kabul and sits on
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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. Michael Shann,
25, said.
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