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June 25, 2006

IED's No Longer So "Improvised"

Despite what VP Dick Cheney and SECDEF Rumsfeld keep telling us the Iraqi insurgents aren't merely dead-end ex-Baathists, Saddam loyalists, bandits, Islamic fanatics or bloody-minded kooks and other disorganized rabble that get lucky once in a while. They are getting better at killing their occupiers all the time. They've "perfected" the roadside bomb which is equally good at killing dismounted infantry or police patrols or fully mounted troops and cops, and even tanks.

"The device," says the UK Telegraph, "described as an 'off-route mine', was seized by British troops in Iraq earlier this year and brought back to Britain where it underwent detailed examination by scientists at Fort Halstead, the Government's forensic explosive laboratory in Kent.

The Ministry of Defence has attempted to play down the effectiveness of the weapons, suggesting that they are 'crude' or 'improvised' explosive devices which have killed British troops more out of luck than judgement.

However, this newspaper understands that Government scientists have established that the mines are precision-made weapons which have been turned on a lathe by craftsmen trained in the manufacture of munitions."

Posted by Ali Massoud at June 25, 2006 03:54 PM

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