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Members of New Zealand's Kiwi Team 2 recovered three weapons caches, March 6-8. The caches consisted of 15-107 mm rockets, 6-82 mm mortar rounds, 55 rocket propelled grenades, 122 hand grenades, five anti-personnel mines, 82 hand grenade fuses, three rocket propelled grenade fuses, one box of 14.5 mm rounds and 150-7.62 mm rounds. 08/03/2010. Bamyan, Afghanistan. 

Members of New Zealand's Kiwi Team 2 recovered three weapons caches, March 6-8. The caches consisted of 15-107 mm rockets, 6-82 mm mortar rounds, 55 rocket propelled grenades, 122 hand grenades, five anti-personnel mines, 82 hand grenade fuses, three rocket propelled grenade fuses, one box of 14.5 mm rounds and 150-7.62 mm rounds.

Bamyan province located to the north was home to the 'Bamyan Buddhas' built in 507 AD, the enormous Buddha statues carved into the mountains of Afghanistan were once jewel encrusted from head to toe with many hidden passages inside the Buddha statues. 

A decree was passed in 1999 by Taliban leader Mullah Omar to preserve the statues - overturned due to the influence of a vote by 200 of his peers after they deemed them 'un-Islamic'.

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Weapons recovered in Bamyan, Afghanistan

DMTX. Members of New Zealand's Kiwi Team 2 recovered three weapons caches, March 6-8. The caches consisted of 15-107 mm rockets, 6-82 mm mortar...

by Def VID in Afghanistan on 08/03/2010

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