Photo for the Day- November 30 2005

A smoke cloud rises at dusk after an explosive ordnance disposal team destroys weapons and munitions found on an island in the Euphrates River Nov. 28. (Courtesy of DoD)

Photo by 2nd Lt. Paul Fisher, USA

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Iraqi and U.S. forces have removed more than 4,200 mortar rounds from a major weapons cache found Nov. 27 outside of an abandoned military base near Kirkuk, Iraq......
(Update for a post on Monday 11/28/05)
Click it out at DoD......
‘Huge Weapons Cache Yields Thousands of Buried Rounds’