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US forces destroy Qaeda training camp in Iraq

by Staff Writers
Baghdad (AFP) April 9, 2008
US special forces have destroyed an Al-Qaeda in Iraq training camp and a massive cache of weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, the American military said on Wednesday.

The camp was discovered during an operation between April 2 and 5 in the Jazeera desert in central Iraq, a military statement said.

The camp was set up at an old radar station which was being used "as an insurgent training camp and weapons cache site," the statement said.

The cache included more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition, surface-to-air missiles, machine guns, rockets, suicide-vest charges, hand grenades and other explosive materials.

The camp and the weapons cache was later destroyed by air strikes, the military statement added.

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