Multi-National Corps – Iraq, 07 September 2008)excerpts) – Coalition forces, acting on a tip from local Iraqi citizens, discovered a cache containing more than 2,500 components Sep. 6 southeast of Samrah Village in the Babil province. It is believed this discovery will significantly disrupt explosively formed projectiles attacks within central Iraq.

The Soldiers used metal detectors to discover three separate locations where parts of the cache were located.

Later, an explosive ordnance disposal team was brought in, who continued to exhume the cache sites and found complete components for EFPs along with C-4 explosives.

The Diwaniyah Peninsula and the Samrah Jungle are known historic weapons trafficking locations in the area.

Included in the cache were 414 blocks of Iranian M112 C-4, 860 copper plates, 501 back plates, 529 retaining rings and 157 steel bodies, which were all the type used to make EFPs.