Major-General Khalid Rabbani said troops faced days of fierce battles with foreign fighters and,in the end, captured several large caches of weapons and supplies.
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Police found large quantities of explosives,and weapons at the house.
VOA: standard.2009.09.17
Also in the north, U.S. special forces discovered a largeweapons cache just south of Kirkuk.
Brown, an investment bank, reckons that to hold its own against the Americans, Europe can sustain only one large weapons-platform manufacturer and one defence-electronics group.