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[SGT M. Dann] This area outside of Baghdad is the perfect place
for US and Iraqi servicemembers to dispose of collected unexploded ordnance.
They are disposing of rockets, mortars, det cord, and more that the Iraqis have been
storing. They pretty much have a storage area
that they hold all this ordnance. So many things in there can start to be unsafe,
so we need to get rid of it for them. [Dann] This is not leftover ordnance from
the range. It's been collected by joint US and Iraqi
patrols. [male speaker] There are caches that they
find out in the communities--IEDs, rockets that are left on the IRLs whenever
they launch rockets at us. If they don't launch, they'll pick them up
and they'll take them back to their cache. [Dann] With old ammo, mortars, rockets, and
charges safely placed, it's time to make a big ***.
[explosion]