Marines Find Multiple Insurgent Arms Caches South of BaghdadForward Operating Base Kalsu,Iraq – U.S. Marines uncovered five weapons stockpiles south of Baghdad Wednesday, continuing to ferret out the hidden tools militants are using to sustain their campaign of chaos and terror.Marines found an assortment of small arms, munitions and bomb-making materials in separate sweeps near the south-central towns of Yusufiyah, Lutafiyah and Haswah.Among the ordnance they turned up were: 409 artillery rounds; one 120 mm tank projectile; 10 rockets; 16 rocket motors; 50 rocket-propelled grenade boosters; 15 hand grenades; one mortar bipod; 9 shaped charges; 2 caller identification boxes; 2 cell-phone bay stations; 2 batteries; 10 electric blasting caps; 8 smoke canisters; three AK-47 rifles; one SKS rifle; 2 Dragunov rifles; 100 12.7 mm rounds; 700 7.62 mm rounds; 7 full AK-47 magazines; 100 Dragunov rifle rounds; 100 9 mm rounds.The finds are the latest in a wide swath of territory south of the Iraqi capital that, under Saddam Hussein, sheltered much of the former regime’s weapons factories and ammunition supply depots. Since the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived in July, Marines and the Iraqi security forces they’re supporting have uncovered nearly 125 weapons caches in northern Babil and southern Baghdad provinces.