Pennsylvania National Guardsmen joined with Iraqi soldiers to foil an insurgent plan to bomb a polling place near Tikrit, Iraq, last weekend, according to a news release from the Tikrit- based Task Force Danger.

The soldiers from Company A of the 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment and the 201st Iraqi Army Battalion stopped a car carrying an Iraqi policeman and another man at the checkpoint in Kadasia on Jan. 22, the release said.

In the car, the soldiers found 120 mm artillery round wired as a homemade bomb. When questioned, the men confessed they had intended to plant it at a nearby polling site, according to the release. An explosive-ordinance disposal team came to the site and destroyed the bomb.

The 1-112th Infantry is based in Erie, Pa., and currently is serving in Tikrit as part of Task Force 1-18, under the leadership of the 1st Infantry Division.

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