U.S. Raid Finds (Roadside) Bomb Material in Iraq

TIKRIT, Iraq -- U.S. troops raided the home of a suspected weapons dealer Sunday, arresting him and discovering materials commonly used by the Iraqi resistance to build the roadside bombs that target American soldiers.

As Apache helicopters hovered overhead, troops backed up by Bradley fighting vehicles battered down the front of the house in central Tikrit in the pre-dawn hours, looking for a man identified by fellow Iraqis as a weapons dealer and possible member of the Saddam Fedayeen, the regime's former militia.

Inside, they found blasting caps and other materials that could be used to build a number of bombs. The raid took place near the site of an Oct. 1 roadside bombing that killed a woman soldier serving with the 4th Infantry Division.

"We had targeted an individual we were looking for and we did find him at this home, along with some incriminating paraphernalia and bomb-making material," Major Mike Rauhut, executive officer of the 4th ID's 1st Brigade 22nd Infantry Regiment, told The Associated Press outside the house.

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