CACHE FOUND/CLEARED Other

CACHE FOUND INSIDE OF THE SAROBI GOVERNMENT COMPOUND: A CACHE WAS DISCOVERED IN A BACK ROOM OF A GOVERNMENT COMPOUND IVO 3247.557N 06905.319E IN SAROBI. THE GOVERNOR COMPOUND MISSION WAS TO PROVIDE MEDICAL, VETERINARY AND HUMANITARIAN AID ASSISTANCE. THE CACHE CONSISTED OF THE FOLLOWING: 574 X RPG-9 ROUNDS; 700 X RPG-9 BOOSTERS; 1 X 40MM FRONT LINE ARTILLERY ROUNDS; 18 X 82MM MORTAR ROUNDS; 1 X 82MM MORTAR ROUND (US MFG); 10 X ROLLS OF TRIP WIRE; 10 X ROLLS OF DET CORD; 70 X TNT TYPE LAND MINE BOOSTER; 100 X BLASTING CAPS; 10 X M-5 MOUSE TRAPS 5 BOXES WITH 2 PER BOX; 35 X U/I TYPE LAND MINE BOOSTERS; 30 X TIME PENCILS (7 GREEN, 7 YELLOW, 7 WHITE, 9 RED); 50 X SQUIBS; 68 X OZ STRIKER FUSES; 12 X MK-7 AT MINE WITH FUSES; 6 X ITALIAN 2.4 AT MINE; 7 X ITALIAN TC-6 AT MINE; 1 X PAKISTANI TM-46 AT MINE. (S//REL ISAF) THE MAYOR, MOHAMMAD GUL, AND THE CHIEF OF POLICE, ABDUL BAQI, WERE ABSENT, WITH THE MAYOR REPORTEDLY IN SHARONA AND THE POLICE CHIEF IN GOWMAL. HABIB ULLAH, A POLICE OFFICER, AND NEMAT ULLAH, THE SECOND IN COMMAND FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BOTH SAID THAT FOUR PEOPLE KNEW OF THE CACHE: ABDUL BAQI, SAGEEN FROM NAKA, DAWLAT KHAN (PAKTIKA PROVINCE POLICE CHIEF) FROM KHUORJANA, AND GOVERNOR MOHAMMAD ALI JALALI. THEY WERE BOTH SCARED THAT THE CACHE WOULD BE GONE WHEN THE MAYOR AND POLICE CHIEF RETURNED. HABIB ASKED FOR A LETTER DECLARING THAT US FORCES TOOK THE CACHE AND THAT THE TWO INDIVIDUALS DID NOT VOLUNTARILY HAND OVER THE CACHE. THEY SAID THAT THE ITEMS WERE THERE FROM THE PREVIOUS LEADERSHIP AT LEAST THREE MONTHS AGO. THEY CLAIMED THAT THEY DID NOT KNOW THE EXACT SOURCE OF THE CACHE.